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I²SL's Electronic Library (E-Library)

I²SL's E-Library is a portal of information from around the world on new applied technologies, lessons learned, and other valuable resources for architects, engineers, builders, owners, and operators of laboratories and other high-technology facilities.

• What's in the E-Library?
• E-Library Topic Areas
• E-Library Articles

What's in the E-Library?

The links below include technical papers and reports on high-technology facilities contributed by our audience. Papers are organized by topic and then alphabetical by title.

Interested in submitting something to our E-Library? If you have a paper, case study, presentation, or other piece of useful information that you would like to share with the sustainable laboratory community, we would like to hear from you! Simply email your submission suggestion to I²SL.

E-Library Topic Areas

• Evaluating Performance
• Laboratory Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Systems
• Laboratory Operations and Maintenance (O&M)
• Laboratory Resilience
• Laboratory Users
• Pandemic Response and Readiness
• Sustainable Architecture

E-Library Articles

Evaluating Performance

• A Study of Factors Affecting Fume Hood Energy Consumption (2009)

  • Joseph S. Marian, Jr., American Auto-Matrix

• Find Your Building's Top Three HVAC Energy Savings Approaches With a New Lab Energy Analysis Tool (2012)

  • Gordon P. Sharp, Aircuity, Inc.

• Laboratory Fume Hoods: Guidelines for Building Owners, Design Professionals, and Maintenance Personnel (2013)

  • Public Works and Government Services Canada

• Labs21: Improving the Performance of U.S. Laboratories (2012)

  • Labs21 Inventory Presentation

• Market Assessment of Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Laboratories (2015)

  • Allison Paradise, My Green Lab, as part of the Center for Energy Efficient Laboratories

• Technical Bulletin: Retro-Commissioning Laboratories for Energy Efficiency

  • Geoffrey Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Paul Mathew, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Lincoln Pierce, PE, IMEG
  • Raphael Vitti, PE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Laboratory Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Systems

• Beyond the Laboratory Bench—Adaptive Lighting Strategies for the Rest of the Building (2012)

  • Kelly Cunningham, California Lighting Technology Center

• Dynamic Control of Laboratory Air Change Rates Based on Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
  Part 1: A New Approach to Save Energy and Enhance Safety in Laboratories (2009)

  • Gordon P. Sharp, Aircuity, Inc.

• Dynamic Control of Laboratory Air Change Rates Based on IEQ
  Part 2: A Comprehensive Review of the IEQ and Energy Impact of Laboratory Air Change Rate Control (2009)

  • Gordon P. Sharp, Aircuity, Inc.

• Specifying Sustainable Materials: Laboratory DWV Piping and Neutralization Systems (2008)

  • Patrick Frazier, SCHOTT North America

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Laboratory Operations and Maintenance (O&M)

• A Guide to Navigating Building and Fire Codes for Laboratories (2014)

  • Better Buildings Alliance - Laboratories Project Team

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Lab Resilience

• I²SL Best Practices Guide: Laboratory Resilience

  • Lisa Churchill, Climate Advisory
  • George Karidis, SmithGroup
  • Jacob Werner, Perkins&Will

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Laboratory Users

• Approaches to Incorporating Green Chemistry and Safety into Laboratory Culture
  • Natalie J. O’Neil, Beyond Benign
  • Star Scott, University of Georgia
  • Rachael Relph, My Green Lab
  • Ettigounder Ponnusamy, MilliporeSigma

• A Cool Competition for Sustainable Labs, Nature (2019)

• Case Study Approach to Green Chemistry Impacts on Science Facility Design and Operations: Regents Hall of Natural Sciences at St. Olaf College

  • Paul T. Jackson, St. Olaf College

• Reducing Laboratory Energy through Financial Incentives (2019)

  • Quentin Gilly, Harvard University

• Technical Bulletin: Expanded Polystyrene Use in Laboratories (2021)

  • Michaela Barnett, HEASC Fellow, University of Virginia
  • Ilyssa O. Gordon, MD, PhD, Laboratory Waste Landfill Diversion Working Group Co-Chair, Medical Director, Sustainability, Cleveland Clinic
  • Kelly O. Weisinger, Laboratory Waste Landfill Diversion Working Group Co-Chair, Director of Sustainability, Emory University and Emory Healthcare

• Thinking Outside the Icebox on Lab Sustainability, Nature (2017)

  • A conversation with Allison Paradise, My Green Lab

• Thinking Outside the Icebox on Lab Sustainability, Nature (2018)

  • A conversation with Phil Wirdzek, International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories

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Pandemic Response and Readiness

• American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Reopening Guidance for Laboratories

• Applying lessons learned from 9/11 biodefense response to the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Jeffrey Lee Schantz, Healthcare Facilities Today
  • Michael Weiss, Healthcare Facilities Today
• ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force Laboratory Subcommittee Guidance Document
• ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force: Schools and Universities

• Climate-informed HVAC Increases in Relative Humidity May Fight Pandemic Viruses (2020)

  • George Karidis, SmithGroup
  • Robert Thompson, SmithGroup

• COVID-19 Back-to-Work Planning Briefing (2020)

  • Massachusetts High Technology Council

• Employing Intelligent Building Design and IoT to Maintain Environmental Safety and Confidence in Facilities (2020)

  • Lisa Wesel, Tradeline

• For Some Biotech Employees in the Age of COVID-19, the Workday Starts at the Bathroom Sink (2020)

  • Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe

• Information on Maintaining or Restoring Water Quality in Buildings With Low or No Use

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Washington University Research Ramp-Up Checklist

  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Please note that this document has been developed for Washington University in St. Louis only and WashU assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this draft document. This document is informational only and is being shared to help other institutions prepare their own COVID-19 guidance.

Sustainable Architecture

• Challenges in Adapting Historic Buildings for New Science Teaching and Research

  • Ken Sheehan, Alliiance

• Climate Neutral Research Campuses

  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

• Edison's Data Center: 380Vdc Brings Reliability and Efficiency to Sustainable Data Centers (2012)

  • Guy AlLee
  • William Tschudi

• Energy Efficiency in Vivariums (2007)

  • Peter Rumsey, Rumsey Engineers
  • Glen Berry, Design for Science

• The Evolution of Academic Research Facilities: Workplace Trends and Emerging Technologies Reshape Laboratory Design (2019)

  • Irene Monis, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, SmithGroup Inc.

• Guidance for Designing Health and Residential Care Facilities that Respond and Adapt to Emergency Conditions (2021)

  • The Facility Guidelines Institute

• How Sustainability Advances Science Parks, Their Users, Communities, and Investors (2009)

  • Phil Wirdzek, International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories
  • Lisa Galley, Galley Eco Capital

• Team Science: Designing for Research in the Information Age (2020)

  • Bryan Croeni, B+A Advance Strategy

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