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McGill University Best Practices and Approaches New Thinking in Lab Design P .R.B. Planners Inc. Laboratory Consultants What makes a good laboratory? Consider the following - The Program The People (Culture) The

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Best Practices and Approaches – New Thinking in Lab Design

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What makes a good laboratory? Consider the following -

  • The Program
  • The People (Culture)
  • The Infrastructure
  • Health and Safety
  • Risk Management
  • Sustainability
  • Technology Integration
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And, for Undergraduate Labs …

  • Pedagogy?
  • Demand on resources
  • Adaptability of infrastructure to new

teaching methods and new ideas

What makes a good laboratory? Consider the following -

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What makes a GREAT laboratory?

Paying attention to each of the previous points and finding the right balance between each of them.

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Getting with the Program

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Getting with the Program

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Getting with the Program

  • Time consuming initially
  • Must be taken seriously
  • Everyone must be involved
  • Saves time and money

LABS THAT USE A DETAILED PROGRAM ARE CONSISTENTLY BETTER LABS !

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Culture

  • Every Institution/Organization has its
  • wn unique ‘flavour’.
  • Labs should be designed around the

culture of the organization.

  • If you force people to adopt a new

culture against their will, the labs will not work.

Paying attention to Culture will make people feel comfortable in their new environment

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Infrastructure

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Infrastructure

  • Determine from program services/utilities

and special situations that will determine what goes into the lab.

  • Ensure that services are delivered

‘everywhere’, within reason

  • Handle unique cases separately
  • Simple choices can vastly affect future
  • utcome – side-mount services vs. floor

penetration

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The Infrastructure

Intelligent service delivery improves flexibility and adaptability – cheaper now and much cheaper when renovations occur !

adapt·abil·i·ty /noun The ability of the

  • wner to modify

space with a minimum amount of disruption flex·i·bil·i·ty /noun The ability of the researcher/student to move from one area to another and continue to work churn /noun The cyclical rate at which labs are reconfigured

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Infrastructure

The best labs are labs that are designed to grow and change in concert with changes in pedagogy, research and culture and do not impose barriers to that growth.

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Health and Safety

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Health and Safety

  • Related to risk management
  • Legislated requirements for your facility
  • Provincial, Federal EH&S policy as well

as workers compensation board, CSA, Hydro requirements, Fire code etc., not to mention municipal codes.

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Health and Safety

  • Best approach is to incorporate as a

philosophy into design

  • Make safety showers, eyewash stations and

emergency stations a part of the lab

  • Solvent and chemical storage integrated into

lab design

  • Unique opportunity with U/G labs to re-work

dispensing and distribution methods

The best labs make health and safety highly visible and turn it into part of the culture!

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Risk Management

  • Start each scenario by saying “what

could happen?”

  • Object is to send everyone home with all
  • f their parts.
  • By adopting simple strategies, risk is

managed and liability is reduced

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Risk Management

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Risk Management

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Risk Management

  • Consider Traffic movement for all

activities

  • Especially critical for U/G activities
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Risk Management

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Risk Management

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Risk Management

  • Plays a critical role in lab design
  • Can be applied to almost all lab activities
  • Can be used as a tool to help achieve, in

a natural way, compliance with all applicable legislation (solvent & chem storage for example) The best labs incorporate risk management strategies in an almost subconscious manner !

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Sustainability

  • Labs are traditionally energy intensive

buildings

  • The last decade has witnessed the

emergence of a number of bodies to help lab designers plan for more efficient facilities i.e. EPA, US DOE, etc through LEEDS and Labs for the 21st Century.

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Sustainability

  • Attempt to achieve transparency to user
  • Creates many more choices for design
  • ptions:

– Ventilation – Lighting – Systems (gas vs. electric; water vs. vacuum, ultra pure water vs. filtered, etc.) – Materials for construction – Architectural considerations

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Sustainability

  • Sustainable labs are:

– Brighter – Quieter – More efficient in terms of space and movement – Nicer environments to work in – Marketable

The best labs are sustainable and incorporate energy and environmental design practices.

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Technology Integration

  • A subset of infrastructure, but much

more ambiguous

  • Must be viewed on a discipline by

discipline level

  • Can be comprised of :

– Instrumentation advances – Computing advances – Directions in science (nanotech, combinatorial, micro-sizing, etc.)

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Technology Integration

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Technology Integration

  • Must be able to ‘predict’ directions (new

instrumentation, new grants, new faculty)

  • Must have an accurate feel for the progression of the

discipline

  • Must be able to accommodate changes
  • Can be as simple as accessible cable trays
  • Can be as speculative as gambling against the

emergence of wireless tech and installing data ports

The best labs incorporate the infrastructure necessary to allow technological advances to

  • ccur naturally and without barriers.
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Undergraduate Considerations

  • U/G labs must consider all of the

preceding points AND

  • Must take into account parameters that

increase the complexity of design

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Right-Sizing an Undergraduate Laboratory

Sectioning Teaching Methods Density Compatibility Schedule Enrolment LAB SIZE

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Enrolment

  • Does past activity indicate future activity?
  • Are there proposed changes to programs?
  • Are there changes to departments for whom

you deliver service teaching?

  • Are there provincial changes to

funding/support?

  • Try to predict future growth for 5 & 10 yrs

Current trends are to build in some room for growth, but to have contingency plans in the event of blips and balloons

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Teaching Methods (Teaching Culture)

  • Does Faculty teach? TAs?
  • Who does lab setup/teardown – cleanup?
  • individual student lockers or communal

glassware?

  • Demonstration benches ? Prep areas? Pre-lab

demos?

  • Set weekly experiments or rotate through set

experiments

  • If pre-lab lecture, in lab or classroom – traffic?
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Teaching Methods

Current trends are:

  • provide small breakout space ( a chalk

board/white board per TA group)

  • avoid the expense of Demo Benches and full

A/V set ups.

  • Pre taped demos delivered either via monitor
  • r computer – saves time, reduces liability, and

is consistent in its information to all students.

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Density

  • How many students / lab?
  • How many students / teaching assistants?
  • Comfort level – more students/lab and more

students/TA increases risk factor Current trends are to have 17-23 students/TA; Labs should be sized for 50-100 students

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Scheduling

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Scheduling

  • Does your timetable have flexibility
  • Occupancy Rates?
  • Room capacity?

Current trends are to have occupancy rates of > 50% (8-5)

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Sectioning

  • Enrolment of 150 in BIO 101
  • Size lab for 150? 75? 50? 30?

– Depends on resources – Teaching style – Lab size

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Compatibility

  • Can labs be blended?

– Phys & Analytical – General & BioChem – Biology & General – Etc. Current trends are to have labs that can serve as wide a purpose as possible by being as generic as possible.

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Lab Design Issues Primer

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ISSUES AFFECTING DESIGN

  • Money
  • Code Requirements
  • EH&S Concerns
  • Pedagogy
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Churn
  • Sustainability
  • Physical Lab Elements
  • Etc.
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Physical Lab Elements

  • Approach is to tend toward ‘modules’
  • A replicated pattern throughout the lab
  • Space gets dense with services
  • All of the other elements will directly

affect this

  • Cannot be approached in isolation
  • Is where the greatest compromises get

made

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Build A Lab …

Layout the grid …

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Build A Lab …

Add some structure …

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Build A Lab …

Add some walls …

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Build A Lab …

Casework & Fumehoods …

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Build A Lab …

Loose furniture …

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Build A Lab …

Light It Up …

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Build A Lab …

Fire Protection …

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Build A Lab …

Perimeter Heat …

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Build A Lab …

Cable Trays …

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Build A Lab …

And finally, add some ventilation …

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Build A Lab …

Now test it …

ONE PE RS ON N O THROU GH TRA FFIC 9 75 - 1200 mm

7 6 2 2 83 2 BE NCH F UM E HOOD 1 2 00 97 5 ISL AND BEN CH 1 52 4 4

TYP ICAL B ENC H & HOOD DIME SION S

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ON E P ER SO N PLU S P AS SA GE W AY 1050 - 135 0 mm TWO PE OPLE BA CK TO B ACK NO TH ROUG H TRA FFIC 1350 - 15 00 mm TWO PE OPLE BA CK TO B ACK PLU S P AS SA GE W AY 1650 - 1 950 mm

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Build A Lab …

Validate it on paper …

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Build A Lab …

Validate it in the real world …

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Build A Lab …

Validate some assumptions …

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Some Thoughts on Sustainability

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

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Choices, Choices ….