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Labs21 Partner: The Quest for Platinum: Challenges
involved in designing a laboratory facility that will achieve LEED™'s
highest rating
Stephen P. Mead, Ph.D., Northern Arizona
University
Cole Roberts, PE, LEED™ AP, Arup
Robin Shambach, AIA, Burns & Wald
Hopkins Architects This presentation will focus on a new laboratory facility that
has been designed to meet the highest level of the United States
Green Building Council, LEED™ platinum. Currently under construction,
the Applied Research and Development Facility at Northern Arizona
University has been designed as a flexible, mixed use facility that
will include a BSL-3 bio hazard research laboratory, modular office
space, conferencing facility and a business incubator. The project
has been designed by an international team that includes Hopkins
Architects from the United Kingdom, Burns, Wald, Hopkins Architects
from Tucson Arizona, ARUP, and Earl Walls and Associates from the
United States. The presentation will include three principle speakers.
Dr. Stephen Mead (NAU) will outline the background and initial visioning
behind the project, Robin Shaumbach (Burns Wald Hopkins) will describe
the problems inherent in creating and managing an integrated international
design team, and Cole Roberts, PE, (ARUP) will discuss the significant
technical challenges in meeting the requirements for LEED™
Platinum.
The presentation will focus on the lessons learned in designing
a laboratory building that will meet the challenging requirements
for LEED™ Platinum facilities. Topics will include façade
design in climates with significant solar gain, the role of renewable
energy, and the challenges associated with designing and documenting
a BSL-2/3 laboratory that seeks to capture all 10 of the LEED™-NC
points for energy efficiency.
Labs21 Connection:
The Applied Research Facility at Northern Arizona University is
a pilot project for the Labs21 program and one of the first laboratory
facilities that will be designed to meet the LEED™ Platinum
v2.1 level. Northern Arizona University currently has six LEED™
Registered facilities under design or construction on its campus.
Biographies:
Stephen P. Mead, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor of Construction
Management at Northern Arizona University, and one of the creators
of the Applied Research Facility. He teaches classes in building
science and energy efficiency and has helped to develop the first
county wide residential green building program in the country.
Cole Roberts, PE, LEED™ AP
is a Senior Engineer and Sustainability Consultant in Arup's San
Francisco office specializing in sustainable design, assessment,
and consultation. As a registered Professional Engineer with a strong
background in business concerns, Cole brings a technically versed
and financially pragmatic understanding of project sustainability
to the table. Recent work includes the development of sustainability
performance criteria for Stanford University and the first Pre-Certified
Platinum LEED™-CS project in the world. Cole has presented
at numerous conferences including the USGBC's Greenbuild and is
a regular guest lecturer at Stanford University and the Integrated
Building Services program at the California College of Art. Cole
has performed numerous sustainable assessments and participated
in a myriad of building designs based on the LEED™ rating system,
Labs21 EPC and the SPeAR™ appraisal routine.
Robin Shambach, AIA, LAP, is a
principal of Burns and Wald-Hopkins Architects and has over twenty
years as a project architect and project manager working on complex
public projects. She is a LEED™ certified designer and was
the project architect for Pima Community College Desert Vista Campus
Plaza Building, Arizona's first LEED™ certified building. She
is also project architect for Northern Arizona University Applied
Research Facility.
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