Info & Links

• Labs for the 21st Century
• Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria (EPC)
• Labs21 Best Practices
• U.S. Green Building Council
• Lab Design News

Got Questions About This?

Contact:

• Claire Berezowitz,
  Longwood Green Campus Program Coordinator
• Gosia Sklodowska, FAS Green Program Manager

Lab Sustainability News

There are many interesting and relevant articles showing up in trade magazines and other publications focused on energy and resource conservation in labs. Listed below are a variety of links to articles, if you come across other interesting, relevant articles please email the link to Jaclyn or Gosia

Harvard Allston Project Updates

• Gazette Article: Behnisch Architekten submits early design ideas for Science Complex (Sept 14, 2006)

 

Lab Design News:

• "Water Efficiency Guide for Laboratories" Part 4 (July 2006)
• "Water Effiicency Guide for Laboratories" Part 3 (June 2006)
• "Water Efficiency Guide for Laboratories" Part 2 (May 2006)
• “Water Efficiency Guide for Laboratories” Part 1 (April 2006)
• “Green on a budget” (March 2006)
• “Chill the Ceilings for Cool Energy Savings” (Dec 2005)
• “Commissioning Lab Buildings: What are you Trying to Prove?” (Nov 2005)
• Right lab, right place combine for sustainability (July 2005)
• “New lighting systems minimize energy, cost, maintenance” (March 2005)
• “Sustainable design: 10 basic steps" (Feb 2005)

 

Green Lab Project Highlights

• Fuel Cell Works "NRC opens cutting edge fuel cell research facility" (Sept 12, 2006 )
• MIT News Office, "'Green' labs project wins EPA prize"
• Pfizer earns first LEED Silver for a lab in Conn (scroll to bottom of the "News Notes" page to download the pdf case study)     
• Philadelphia Forensic Science Center is the only lab building to be honored as a "Top 10 Green Projects of 2006 " by the AIA

 

Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG):

• "Using LEED on Laboratory Projects ", by Deepa Tolat and Daniel Watch, Perkins + Will