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Abbie Gregg, Inc.
 Engineering
Consultant
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Abbie Gregg holds a B.S. in
Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and studied Electrical Engineering
at the University of Maine.
Abbie Gregg's background includes eighteen years
as an Engineering Consultant, specializing in microelectronics
process analysis and startup/ restructuring of laboratories
and manufacturing facilities. Abbie Gregg, Inc.
is her consulting firm, specializing in programming
and design of cleanrooms and advanced technology laboratories.
Layout, Room Conditions, Utility Matrix, and Specialty
Systems design have been provided for Industrial and
University Clients. Her previous experience is in process
engineering, operations management, and technical strategic
planning for major semiconductor device manufacturers.
Her areas of specialization include Integrated Circuits,
Flat Panel Displays, TVS Devices, and Multichip Modules.
Consulting projects have included yield enhancement,
improved operations effectiveness, and many facets of
start up consulting. She developed systems and programs
for computer aided layout and design of Clean Rooms.
Abbie's team also developed software models for semiconductor
and FPD product cost, outsourcing analysis, cost of
ownership and factory simulation. She has done extensive
turn-around consulting, assisting technical operations
in project management, and implementing continuous improvement
methods.
Several recent AGI Research and University Projects
have included design and consulting on multidisciplinary
and Nanotechnology Labs and Cleanrooms. These are: Sandia
National Labs MESA Project (Si IC's, MEMS and Compound
Semiconductors) Argonne National Labs Center for Nanoscale
Materials, Motorola Biochip Labs and Production areas,
MIT Microphotonics Laboratory and Cleanrooms, Harvard
University Laboratory for Interface Science and Engineering,
University of California at Berkeley CITRIS Microlab
Cleanroom, University of Michigan Solid State Electronics
Lab Cleanroom Expansion, Arizona State University ERC
Renovations, New Cleanroom, and AZ Bio Design Institute,
Wayne State University Microelectronics Cleanroom, and
Duke University, Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering
and Applied Sciences .
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PRESENTATION:
THE RIGHT LEVELS OF "CLEAN"
FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS
PART I - ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
Nanoscience research facilities
do not require the same level of "clean" that
microelectronics production plants do. Creating "clean"
space is costly, so you want to make sure you don't
specify higher levels of "clean" than are
necessary, or more clean space than you need. Here Abbie
Gregg and Craig Rossrucker set out a strategic planning
process for deciding levels of cleanliness. This presentation
addresses the questions that users need to ask and implications
of the answers.
Future presentations will illustrate
how to achieve those levels at the lowest possible cost.
Using current project information, they examine the
spectrum of options ranging from cost-effective cleanroom
designs to micro-environments, and set out guidelines
for making "clean-cost-flexibility" decisions.
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HDR Architecture, Inc.
Principal,
Senior Vice President
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Ahmad
Soueid is a Principal / Senior Vice President of HDR
Architecture, Inc. He joined HDR over twelve years ago
as a registered architect after working for architectural
firms in New York, Connecticut and Texas. He focuses
exclusively on the design and construction of advanced
technology facilities for both private and public sector
clients.
Ahmad Soueid is a registered architect that offers creative
solutions to technically challenging nanotechnology
facilities. Mr. Soueid is a leader in the design of
nanotechnology facilities and he serves as a hands-on
Principal for a prestigious list of nanotechnology projects
such as the NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory,
a 511,070 square feet $175M state-of-the-art laboratory;
Purdue University's $47M Birck Nanotechnology
Center as well as Brookhaven National Laboratory's
$28M Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
Mr. Soueid also consulted as a
nanotechnology facilities advisor to Mexico's Centro
Nacional de Metrología as well as the U.K.'s
National Physical Laboratory. Mr. Soueid was
co-chairman of the Buildings for Advanced Technology
Workshop (January 2003) organized in part under
the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in conjunction
with NIST and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) as
well as the Buildings for Advanced Technology Workshop
II (January 2004), sponsored by Arizona State University.
Mr. Soueid's is a frequent speaker
at technical conferences. Mr. Soueid's presentation
on the "Technical Challenges of designing Bio-Nano
spaces in a Cleanroom environment" was a featured
case study at a recent Tradeline Conference on Nanotechnology
facilities. Other presentations include a variety of
topics, including "High Accuracy Temperature
Control in Metrology Laboratories" at the Quality
Manufacturing 2000 Conference in Birmingham, United
Kingdom, and a presentation at the "New Trends
in Metrology Workshop" the National Physical
Laboratory in Teddington, United Kingdom as well as
"A Case Study for Designing for Nanotechnology"
to the Ottawa Valley Chapter of ASHRAE in Canada.
Mr. Soueid graduated from
the University of Texas at Arlington where he received
both a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master
of Architecture degree.
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Del E. Webb School of Construction at Arizona State University
Associate
Professor
CREATE
Director
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Dr. Chasey is an Associate Professor
in the Del E. Webb School of Construction at Arizona State
University. He received a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, a Master
of Science in Engineering Management from the Air Force Institute
of Technology, and a BS in Civil Engineering from Arizona
State University. He is Director of CREATE, Construction Research
and Education for Advanced Technology Environments, a research
consortium of 30 companies representing the Advanced Technology
design and construction industry.
Prior to joining the ASU faculty, Dr. Chasey spent 21 years
as a civilian in the United States Air Force Civil Engineering.
His last position was Chief of the Contract Management
Section for the 836th Civil Engineering Squadron at Davis-Monthan
Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona where he was responsible
for the contract management and inspection of all construction,
repair, modification, and alteration projects on the base
valued at $20 - 30 million/year.
He has developed a graduate program in Controlled Environments
Construction, (Cleanrooms) in conjunction with the leading
experts in semiconductor manufacturing from Intel, Motorola,
Acorn Consulting, Kinetics, DPR Construction, Performance
Contracting, Fluor Corp., Abbie Gregg Inc, and Ionics Pure
Solutions, to name a few. The Cleanroom Construction course
is a one of a kind that focuses on the construction process
for high-technology manufacturing facilities.
He is a registered Professional Civil Engineer in Arizona
and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
and the Construction Research Council of ASCE. He is also
a member of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering
(AACE), the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers
(ISPE), and the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology
(IEST).
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ARUP
Principle
Acoustics Consultant
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Amir is a Principle Acoustic
Consultant and Associate Principal of Arup. He has
19 years experience consulting in California, and throughout
the U.S. He has experience in all aspects of building
acoustics, building mechanical noise and vibration control,
environmental noise assessment, and transportation noise
analysis.
In particular, he has provided
acoustics consulting services to architects and building
engineers for numerous laboratory buildings and hospitals.
He has developed an expertise in designing noise and
vibration control schemes for building mechanical equipment.
Amir has a Bachelor of Science
in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas Sate University
and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from
Kansas State University Certified Acoustical Consultant,
County of Orange.
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PRESENTATION:
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS NOISE ISSUES
-- CASE STUDIES
Noise and vibration are inherent
products of building mechanical ventilation systems
especially for advanced technology buildings, such as,
research laboratories and manufacturing facilities,
which required large volume of air movement. Potential
noise impacts include building occupants, vibration
sensitive equipment, and neighboring communities. Case
studies will be presented to discuss noise issues associated
with the building mechanical design and provide solutions
to address these issues. The following case studies
will be discussed:
· Noise impact due to mechanical
system effects: Address the impact of noise generation
due to the various mechanical system effects, which
are not generally shown during the design stage.
· Noise impact on vibration
sensitive equipment: Address the noise generation due
to air ventilation duct system on vibration sensitive
equipment (electron microscope), discussion of the manufacturer
site noise criteria and room certification.
Mechanical plant noise impact
on the neighboring communities: Address the noise impact
due to outdoor mechanical equipment of a manufacturing
plant to the neighboring communities.
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DPR Construction
Preconstruction
Manager
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Brett Dominguez has 15 years experience
in the construction industry and is leading the preconstruction
and estimating efforts for Arizona BioDesign Institute Phases
I and II. Brett’s career began in the field as a project
engineer and project superintendent which has provided him
with a sound understanding of construction techniques including
procurement, scheduling, sequencing, cost management and quality.
These qualities that Brett brings to the Arizona BioDesign
Institute make him not only an asset to the preconstruction
efforts, but also the day-to-day construction operations efforts.
Brett has a Bachelor of Science in Construction
Management from California Polytechnic State University.
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PRESENTATION:
PROJECT DELIVERY OF ARIZONA BIO-DESIGN INSTITUTE AT ARIZONA
STATE UNIVERSITY
The first two phases of the Arizona Bio-Design
Institute totals 344,000 square feet of laboratory, vivarium
and office space for cutting edge research in areas such as
neural rehabilitation, genomics, molecular biophysics, neutraceuticals
and edible vaccines, and nano-scale bio-optics and bioscience.
The research will be interdisciplinary in nature with a focus
on the life sciences, bio-engineering and biotechnology. A
primary aim in building this facility is to accelerate the
pace of discovery and innovation. The facility has been designed
to meet the most stringent demands by experimental programs
in biotechnology and nanotechnology; to enhance communication
and collaboration between researchers with an open, shared
lab design and a central atrium linking all floors; to be
flexible allowing for rapid reconfiguration of space and equipment
to meet the changing demands of the research programs; and
to be a hub providing the linkage between the multi-disciplinary
research groups and those from leading industries and regional
institutions.
The joint venture of Sundt Construction
and DPR Construction are the CM at Risk for Arizona Bio-Design
Institute Phases I and II. Phase I is scheduled for completion
in Fall of 2004 and Phase II is scheduled for completion in
the Fall of 2005.
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DPR Construction
Construction
Manager
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Brett Helm is one of DPR Construction’s
Phoenix leaders and is the Construction Manager on the new
Arizona BioDesign Institute Phases I and II at Arizona
State University. Brett has over 15 years of experience
in the design and construction of challenging and unique laboratory,
vivarium and technical projects. His projects include
facilities for IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Advanced Cardiovascular
Systems/Eli Lilly, Apple Research and Development and Rockwell.
Brett is dedicated to teamwork, collaboration and is results-oriented
delivering fast track projects.
Brett has a Bachelor of Science in Construction
Management from Purdue University.
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PRESENTATION:
PROJECT DELIVERY OF ARIZONA BIO-DESIGN INSTITUTE AT ARIZONA
STATE UNIVERSITY
The first two phases of the Arizona Bio-Design
Institute totals 344,000 square feet of laboratory, vivarium
and office space for cutting edge research in areas such as
neural rehabilitation, genomics, molecular biophysics, neutraceuticals
and edible vaccines, and nano-scale bio-optics and bioscience.
The research will be interdisciplinary in nature with a focus
on the life sciences, bio-engineering and biotechnology. A
primary aim in building this facility is to accelerate the
pace of discovery and innovation. The facility has been designed
to meet the most stringent demands by experimental programs
in biotechnology and nanotechnology; to enhance communication
and collaboration between researchers with an open, shared
lab design and a central atrium linking all floors; to be
flexible allowing for rapid reconfiguration of space and equipment
to meet the changing demands of the research programs; and
to be a hub providing the linkage between the multi-disciplinary
research groups and those from leading industries and regional
institutions.
The joint venture of Sundt Construction
and DPR Construction are the CM at Risk for Arizona Bio-Design
Institute Phases I and II. Phase I is scheduled for completion
in Fall of 2004 and Phase II is scheduled for completion in
the Fall of 2005.
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Affiliated Engineers
Project
Manager
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Chris Case is a Project Manager with
Affiliated Engineers and is also the Process Group Leader
in the San Francisco Bay Area office. He graduated
from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts with
a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. In his 20
years of mechanical engineering, he has established an
expertise in cleanroom laboratory design and bio-containment
facility design. Chris has engineered and managed the
University of Wisconsin Engineering Centers Nanotechnology
cleanroom design (12,000 sf under filter); University of
California at Berkeley, Hearst Memorial Mining Building
(140,000 sf); AlleCure Fill Suite; and Bayer cGMP production
facility. Recent research facility and BSL related projects/clients
that Chris has managed or engineered include ICN Pharmaceuticals,
Chiron, AlleCure and Blood Centers of the Pacific.
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PRESENTATION
(Norm Toussaint, William Acorn and Chris Case):
OUTLINING TRENDS AND DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS:
MECHANICAL AND PROCESS SYSTEMS
Buildings that are designed and constructed
to support advanced technology needs can differ greatly from
conventional institutional and industrial facilities. Examples
of these building types include forensics laboratories, biological
research laboratories, and nanotechnology laboratories. Differences
range from environmental (temperature and humidity criteria)
to functional (for example, the desire to locate "interactive
spaces" close to laboratories, with resulting concerns
about hazardous material or contaminant migration and effect
of non-controlled adjacent spaces on sensitive equipment and
operations). It is critical that the owner and design team
clearly understand these differences. The decisions necessary
to meet advanced technical requirements must frequently be
made during the programming and early design process, and
the solutions are frequently multi-discipline in nature.
In this forum, the panel will highlight
current trends in mechanical and process system requirements
for advanced technology facilities, and discuss solutions
that address these requirements.
Among the topics that will be discussed:
- Questioning the need or appropriate class of cleanrooms
for critical R&D, metrology, and assembly functions
- Definition of temperature and humidity stability criteria
- Evaluation of alternative fume hood technologies
- Energy conservation strategies, and compliance with energy
codes such as ASHRAE 90.1
- Requirements for hazardous material storage and handling,
and implications for user facilities
- Comparison of central vs. distributed process systems
- Baselining and improving water use efficiency
A number of solutions to these
and other design challenges will be presented in the form
of case studies of recent advanced technology facility projects.
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National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
Director
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Dr. Teague is Director of the National
Nanotechnology Coordination Office. This is a position in
the National Science and Technology Council to which
he was appointed in April 2003 as an agency representative
for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
He is on assignment from his position at NIST as Chief of
the Manufacturing Metrology Division in the Manufacturing
Engineering Laboratory.
At NIST since 1972, Dr. Teague has designed,
constructed, and used
precision instrumentation for ultra-high accuracy dimensional
metrology of surfaces and micrometer to nanometer-scale features.
Beginning with his metal-vacuum-metal tunneling work in the
1970's, he continued to work with such precision instrumentation
as scanning tunneling microscopes, atomic force microscopes,
displacement and phase-measuring interferometry, stylus instruments,
flexure stages, and light scattering apparatus. Because the
laboratory and building environments were always factors in
the ultimate performance of these instruments, the subject
of this workshop has been an ongoing topic of great interest.
Dr. Teague is a member of the
American Society for Precision Engineering, has served twice
as the Society's President, and is a fellow of the UK Institute
of Physics. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the international
journal Nanotechnology for ten years and is currently a member
of the Editorial Board of the journal. He holds a B.S. and
M.S. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and
a PhD in physics from the University of North Texas. He has
authored or coauthored 70 papers, has presented 50 invited
talks in the technical fields described, and jointly with
colleagues, has six patents. Dr. Teague has received the Gold
Medal, Silver Medal, and Allen V. Astin Measurement Science
Award from the Department of Commerce, the Kilby International
Award by the Kilby Awards Foundation, and an IR-100 Industrial
Research and Development Award for his work.
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HDR
Architecture, Inc.
Senior
Vice President
Professional
Associate
Electrical Section
Manager
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Mr. Bechtol is a Senior Vice
President and a Professional Associate of HDR and
the Electrical Section Manager. He has over 23 year
of experience in the planning and design of lighting,
power and communication systems for laboratory, institutional,
health care and justice facilities.
Mr. Bechtol has designed laboratory
electrical systems for the Department of Defense and
the Food and Drug Administration. His university laboratory
experience includes Johns Hopkins, Duke, UNC and UVA.
At the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) Advanced Measurement Laboratory, Mr. Bechtol
developed a power distribution system to provide two
sources of clean isolated power to each lab to reduce
the effects of power disturbances from adjacent labs
and from building equipment including lights, elevators
and mechanical equipment. He is currently the lead
electrical engineer for the Purdue University Birck
Nanotechnology Center.
Mr. Bechtol received a
Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree from
Penn State in 1979. In 1984, he received his Professional
Engineer's license. He is a member of the Illuminating
Engineering Society (IES) and the International Association
of Electrical Inspectors.
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PRESENTATION:
ELECTRICAL POWER, EMI and GROUNDING
A panel will discuss
issues and methods to mitigate problems associated with
power disturbances, extremely low frequency (ELF) and
radio frequency (RF) interference, and/or grounding
issues.
Power disturbances from external
and internal sources may affect the performance of
sensitive electronic equipment. These affects may
be mitigated by the application of various types of
power conditioning equipment and/or by varying the
configuration of the power distribution system in
a way to provide cleaner power to the sensitive equipment.
With good preplanning, many
of the common extremely low frequency (60 hertz) magnetic
field sources found in a laboratory building can be
located away form the laboratory spaces. Where magnetic
field sources are required in or near the lab as part
of its basic operation, a mixture of shielding techniques
using various construction materials and methods along
with actual shielding materials can be provided to
maintain the necessary environment. Radio frequency
shielding may be required at sensitive labs and/or
at the building envelope.
Good grounding practices
can solve or reduce many power quality problems. The
use of ground buses at the lab benches, bonded directly
to the local transformer ground, can provide the reference
ground sensitive lab equipment requires.
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HDR
Architecture, Inc.
Sustainable
Design Coordinator
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David Gibney is Sustainable
Design Coordinator for HDR. Since joining HDR in 2000
Mr. Gibney has provided sustainable design consultation
to multiple federal agencies including the General
Services Administration, the Department of
Defense, the Department of Energy, and
the National Park Service. His state agency
experience at HDR includes the California Department
of General Services and the Iowa Department
of Natural Resources.
Mr. Gibney's laboratory experience
includes both private and public agency clients. He
is currently providing sustainable design and LEED
coordination for Sandia National Laboratories Center
for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) in Albuquerque,
and the LIGA Technologies Facility at SNL's Livermore
campus. He is also the sustainable design/LEED
consultant for the County of Santa Clara Forensics
Lab. Each of these projects is using the LEED
Application Guide for Labs as a design aid.
As an early Leadership in Energy
& Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional,
Mr. Gibney has developed multiple LEED and sustainable
design training materials for HDR. He recently finished
a HDR process manual for administering LEED. He is
a finalist candidate for the United States Green Building
Council's LEED Application Guide Core Committee.
Mr. Gibney holds a Master of
Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology
and a Master of Architecture degree from the University
of Idaho
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PRESENTATION
(Tom Gerbo, Ken Filar, David Gibney):
CAUSE AND EFFECT: TRENDS
IN RESEARCH FACILITY DESIGN
More and more Requests for Qualifications/Proposals
are coming out for world class, integrated interdisciplinary
research facilities. What are the driving forces behind
this kind of facility? Understanding these forces
have led to a variety of design solutions. Science
and technology is converging at a rapid pace under
the umbrella of nanotechnology. Scientific breakthroughs
such as the development and commercialization of the
carbon nanotube, the atomic force microscope, and
mapping the human genome have led to a new brand of
science bridging the basic and applied sciences. Environmental
conditions in the laboratory are becoming more restrictive.
Social factors such as vertically integrated research
groups and a generational shift in work philosophy,
as well as steep competition among institutions have
had a profound impact on the types of spaces and the
configuration of those spaces. Geopolitical forces
have influenced safety and security. New regulations
and standards are also having an effect on the design
of research facilities. Finally, budgets are getting
tighter whole instrumentation costs are rising.
In this session Tom Gerbo, Ken
Filar and David Gibney will look at the root causes
and resulting effects for these facilities and design
solutions that have been employed to address these
unique requirements of the nanoscience facility. Mr.
Gerbo and Mr. Filar will address the programmatic
drivers behind these facilities and discuss specific
projects that are designed to these parameters. David
Gibney will look in depth at the impact of Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design and will discuss
the requirements of LEED certification.
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Purdue
University
Associate
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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David B. Janes received the
B.A. degree in Physics from Augustana College in 1980
and the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1980, 1981 and 1989, respectively. From 1981 to
1985, he worked as a research scientist in microwave
devices at the Research Division of Raytheon Company.
Since 1989, he has been at Purdue University,
where he is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. From 2002-2003, he was Research
Program Coordinator for the Birck Nanotechnology Center.
He is currently the Deputy Director of the Institute
for Nanoelectronics and Computing, a NASA-supported
center. His research involves nanoelectronic
devices, molecular electronics components and metal/molecule/semiconductor
nanostructures.
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PRESENTATION:
THE BIRCK NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTER:
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITY
This presentation will
overview the research and educational programs in
nanotechnology at Purdue, and describe design of the
Birck Nanotechnology Center. The challenges involved
in defining a state-of-the art and sustainable university
nanotechnology building and the approaches employed
to meet these challenges will be described.
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Applied
Nanobioscience Center Arizona State University
Director
& Associate Professor
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Dr. Frederic Zenhausern (B.Sc
in Biochemistry and Ph.D in Applied Physics, University
of Geneva, Switzerland; MBA in Finance, Rutgers University,
NJ) is the founder, Director and Associate Research
Professor at the Center for Applied Nanobioscience
at the AZBioDesign Institute, Arizona State University.
He has a joint faculty appointment with the Electrical
and Chemical Engineering department at the Fulton
School of Engineering. During his over 4 years
as a research scientist at IBM's Watson Research
Center (Yorktown Heights, NY), Frederic co-developed
the apertureless near-field optical system for applications
ranging from DNA sequencing to high density mass data
storage. Afterward, he held research positions,
including: Head of Physical Measurements group
(Firmenich Inc.), Vice President Advanced Technology
(Alpha-MOS, Inc.) and more recently Manager of Microdevice
Physics (Motorola Labs). He is the co-Founder
of Nanobiomics Inc. and a Scientific Board Advisor
of Mediagnost Inc. He is also affiliated to the
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) led
by Dr. Jeffrey Trent. During the last 3 years, with
funding support from various governmental agencies
(e.g. DARPA, NIMA, FBI…), his team has successfully
transferred integrated nano/micro-system technologies
to product platforms. More recently, his interest
has been directed to the executive leadership in R&D
for flexible displays. Frederic has co-authored
more than 35 scientific publications and thirteen
U.S. patents comprising several publications and pending
disclosures in nanotechnology, bioscience, clinical
diagnostics technology.
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Currie
& Brown, Inc.
Vice President
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Greg has a BSc. in Quantity
Surveying and is a Member of the Royal Institution
of Chartered Surveyors, with over 20 years
experience in construction cost and procurement
management. His knowledge of construction
sectors including commercial, retail, airport,
technology, energy and pharmaceutical, helps ensures
that Currie & Brown manage service delivery to
meet the owner’s requirements of quality, timeliness,
budget and risk. He has worked with both world’s largest
computer chip manufacturer and Ernst & Young to
develop smart procurement and construction administration
guidelines.
He is recognized for his knowledge
of “client focused cost estimating” and “intelligent
procurement.” This has included being an adviser
to Corporate Taskforce working with Primavera to develop
Prime Contract.
Greg is an active member of ACE (Alliance for Construction
Excellence), GPEC (Greater Phoenix Economic Council)
and BABC (British American Business Council). Greg
previously led Currie & Brown’s airport market
sector and was part of British Airport Authorities
strategic team responsible for master planning and
preliminary studies for new construction at all their
airports.
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Colin Gordon and Associates
Vice
President, Technology Development
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Mr. Amick received a Bachelor
of Science in Civil and Architectural Engineering
from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming,
a Master of Science. in Structural Engineering at
the University of California, Berkeley, California
and a Master of .Engineering. In Civil Engineering
from the University of California in Berkeley, California.
Mr. Amick works on problems related to structural
and soil dynamics, rail and transportation vibrations,
mechanical vibrations, and community or workplace
vibrations. He is experienced in signals processing,
finite element modeling and many aspects of structural
and soil dynamics. Hal Amick has worked extensively
in the design of low vibration environments for advanced
technology facilities.
Hal Amick joined Colin Gordon
& Associates in 1996, after spending eleven years
with Bolt Beranek & Newman and Acentech. Prior
to 1990, he worked closely with Colin Gordon at BBN.
At Colin Gordon & Associates he focuses on the
design and maintenance of low-vibration environments
for vibration-sensitive facilities used for research,
development and production of microelectronics as
well as those used for nanotechnology, optics research,
advanced physics and bioscience studies. His early
consulting work involved a wide variety of structural
settings, including nuclear power plant seismic analysis,
container crane design, and structural failure analysis.
Since 1993 he has served as vibration consultant for
design and renovation of laboratories at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Mr.
Amick’s selected project experience includes:
Advanced Measurement Laboratory (NIST); M. D. Anderson
Cancer Research Center; Genentech Hall (Building 24),
University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay
Campus;Knudsen Hall West, UCLA; Huntsman Cancer Research
Center, University of Utah; California Nano Systems
Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara;
Birck Nanotechnology Research Center, Purdue University;
P-050 Nano Science Research Laboratory, Naval Research
Laboratory; and Seagate Research Center.
Hal Amick has written and presented
many papers and reports, and has published extensively.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Senior
Project Manager
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Mr. Stellern has a professional
background of over 20 years in engineering project
management. He has managed major engineering and
construction projects at both Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL). Mr. Stellern was the project manager
for the 250,000 square foot Spallation Neutron
Source - Central Lab and Office Building at ORNL
and is currently managing the design and construction
of the ORNL Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
facility.
Mr. Stellern received his B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering from University of Missouri
at Rolla and is a registered Professional Engineer
in the State of Tennessee.
PRESENTATION:
The DOE Center
for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) facility at
ORNL is the first of five DOE Nanotechnology facilities.
The CNMS will provide the research infrastructure and
environment needed for a user facility with highly collaborative
and interdisciplinary research. The user community will
include resident scientific collaborators and both long-
and short-term visiting scientists. The CNMS will also
provide the necessary infrastructure for the research
including technical support personnel, synthesis and
characterization facilities, high quality and novel
research materials, properties measurement facilities,
and nanofabrication capabilities, within its research
focus areas. This will permit assembling teams to tackle
research problems of a scope, disciplinary breadth,
and complexity that cannot be done by small-group efforts.
More than half the users of the Center will be researchers
from academia, industry, and other national laboratories.
The CNMS is four stories and has 80,000 square feet
of lab, office and cleanroom space. This facility used
close coordination between the representative user team
and the engineering design team to ensure the current
and future research needs would be fulfilled by the
facility. The user team was involved from the initial
programming through design and continues to be closely
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Office of Naval Research
Chief
Scientist
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Dr. James S. Murday received
a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Case Western
Reserve in 1964, and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics
from Cornell in 1970. He joined the Naval Research
Laboratory (NRL) in 1970, led the Surface Chemistry
effort from 1975-1987, and has been Superintendent
of its Chemistry Division since 1988. From May to
August 1997 he served as Acting Director of Research
for the Department of Defense, Research and Engineering.
He is a member of the American Physical Society, the
American Chemical Society and the Materials Research
Society; and a fellow of the American Vacuum Society
(AVS), and the UK Institute of Physics. For the AVS,
he has served as trustee for 1981-1984, director for
1986-1988, representative to the American Institute
of Physics Governing Board 1986-1992, president for
1991-93, and representative to the Federation of Materials
Societies 1998-present.
His research interest in nanoscience began in 1983
as an Office of Naval Research program officer and
continues through the NRL Nanoscience Institute. He
has organized numerous International STM/NANO conferences
and their proceedings. Under his direction, both the
AVS and the International Union for Vacuum Science,
Technology and Applications created a Nanometer Science/Technology
Division. He is Executive Secretary to the U.S. National
Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Nanoscale
Science Engineering and Technology (NSET) and Director
of the National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office.
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M+W Zander
Senior Architect
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Ken Filar is a LEED-accredited
Senior Architect whose 22 years in planning and
design of science and technology projects includes
a special focus on R&D and manufacturing facilities
for advanced and emerging technologies. His microsystems
and nanotechnology projects, in particular, involve
strategic and master planning, programming and schematic
design for cleanrooms, non-clean laboratories, conventional
laboratories, and associated facilities for investigation,
modeling, developing, prototyping, and manufacture
of materials and resulting fabricated systems. Mr.
Filar's projects range from the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
(CNMS); Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale
Materials (CNM); Albany NanoTech at University at
Albany (SUNY); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Stanford
University Advanced Materials Research Laboratory;
UCLA's Chemical and Biological Sciences, East Wing,
Young Hall; as well as public and private industry
projects for clients such as AMD and Micron Technology.
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PRESENTATION
(Tom Gerbo, Ken Filar, David Gibney):
CAUSE AND EFFECT: TRENDS
IN RESEARCH FACILITY DESIGN
More and more Requests for Qualifications/Proposals
are coming out for world class, integrated interdisciplinary
research facilities. What are the driving forces behind
this kind of facility? Understanding these forces
have led to a variety of design solutions. Science
and technology is converging at a rapid pace under
the umbrella of nanotechnology. Scientific breakthroughs
such as the development and commercialization of the
carbon nanotube, the atomic force microscope, and
mapping the human genome have led to a new brand of
science bridging the basic and applied sciences. Environmental
conditions in the laboratory are becoming more restrictive.
Social factors such as vertically integrated research
groups and a generational shift in work philosophy,
as well as steep competition among institutions have
had a profound impact on the types of spaces and the
configuration of those spaces. Geopolitical forces
have influenced safety and security. New regulations
and standards are also having an effect on the design
of research facilities. Finally, budgets are getting
tighter whole instrumentation costs are rising.
In this session Tom Gerbo, Ken
Filar and David Gibney will look at the root causes
and resulting effects for these facilities and design
solutions that have been employed to address these
unique requirements of the nanoscience facility. Mr.
Gerbo and Mr. Filar will address the programmatic
drivers behind these facilities and discuss specific
projects that are designed to these parameters. David
Gibney will look in depth at the impact of Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design and will discuss
the requirements of LEED certification.
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VitaTech Engineering, LLC.
President
and Chief Engineer
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President & Chief Engineer, Mr. Vitale delivers
EMF lectures and presentations to school districts and
corporations regarding perceived threat and public health
issues, presents professional EMF training seminars,
performs EMF surveys, designs shielding/cancellation
systems and directs research activities. He has established
a working relationship with federal agencies (EPA, FCC,
DOE, NIESH) responsible for EMF health and policy issues.
Besides his EMF expertise, Mr. Vitale has more than
20 years of program management, systems engineering,
software development and electronic design experience
in several other technical disciplines including biomedical
engineering; military command, control and communications
systems (C3S); and, broadcast television systems.
During his career, Mr.
Vitale has held senior technical management positions
with Booz • Allen & Hamilton in Washington,
D.C., National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in New York
City, UNISYS in New York and Mercury Middle East in
the United Kingdom and Kuwait. As President of a biomedical
research and development company, he invented and
designed a battery powered, portable, microprocessor
controlled electrocardiograph (ECG) monitor called
the VitaScope. Mr. Vitale has a B.S.E.E. in electrical
engineering from the University of Florida and a B.S./BA
in biochemistry and medieval history from the State
University of New York at Stony Brook. He has an inactive
Top Secret clearance and published numerous EMF articles
and technical papers.
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PRESENTATION:
ELECTRICAL POWER, EMI and GROUNDING
A panel will discuss
issues and methods to mitigate problems associated with
power disturbances, extremely low frequency (ELF) and
radio frequency (RF) interference, and/or grounding
issues.
Power disturbances from external
and internal sources may affect the performance of
sensitive electronic equipment. These affects may
be mitigated by the application of various types of
power conditioning equipment and/or by varying the
configuration of the power distribution system in
a way to provide cleaner power to the sensitive equipment.
With good preplanning, many
of the common extremely low frequency (60 hertz) magnetic
field sources found in a laboratory building can be
located away form the laboratory spaces. Where magnetic
field sources are required in or near the lab as part
of its basic operation, a mixture of shielding techniques
using various construction materials and methods along
with actual shielding materials can be provided to
maintain the necessary environment. Radio frequency
shielding may be required at sensitive labs and/or
at the building envelope.
Good grounding practices
can solve or reduce many power quality problems. The
use of ground buses at the lab benches, bonded directly
to the local transformer ground, can provide the reference
ground sensitive lab equipment requires.
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Gilbane
Building Company
Regional
MEP Director
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Mr. Christeson has over 30 years
experience in the construction industry. He has functioned
as a conceptual and detailed estimator for the higher
education, industrial, and biopharmaceutical industries.
Michael has also authored pre-construction bid packages
for solicitation of subcontractor bids, pre-purchased
equipment, and project turnover. In addition, he has
experience in the planning, design, review and analysis
of schedules. Mike's projects include the San Jose
State University's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library,
the FDA Laboratory at Irvine, California, and Genentech's
Vacaville, California campus. In addition to Mike
being responsible for Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing
work for Gilbane in the Western Region, he serves
as leader of the Gilbane Commissioning Peer Group
charged with establishing all commissioning policies,
practices and procedures for the company.
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PRESENTATION:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project (Contract) Delivery Methods, Quality Process
and Commissioning. Buildings for Advanced Technology
require solid project management skills, practices and
procedures to meet critical schedules, within the established
budget restraints, while delivering the required quality
for today's high tech facilities. This presentation
will explore some of the different contracting methods
available to quickly deliver your facility. A proven
quality process will be explored which delivers the
specified materials and craftsmanship. If the project
does not start up and perform as designed it will not
be a success; the commissioning process starts at the
beginning of the project.
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Knotek Consulting
Consultant
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Knotek has more than 40 years of experience in the
conduct and management of collaborative multidisciplinary
national and international research at DOE laboratories
and user facilities. Dr. Knotek is now a private
consultant, specializing in "transitions"
in science and technology, including creation of new
research facilities and initiatives. Since 2000,
he led the development of the roadmap for the DOE Genomes
to Life Initiative and now helps guide the development
of the Genome to Life facilities. He has served in senior
management positions at several DOE national laboratories
including Sandia, Brookhaven, Pacific Northwest,
Argonne, and Oak Ridge and now serves as a consultant
to the U.S. Department of Energy and the labs. In
1998-1999, he was Senior Advisor to the Secretary of
Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, focusing on programmatic
and laboratory management reform across DOE's $7.2
billion R&D portfolio and the DOE national laboratories'
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PRESENTATION:
RESEARCH FACILITIES TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF 21ST CENTURY BIOLOGY:
A NEXUS OF DISCIPLINES, TECHNOLOGIES AND DISCOVERIES.
The genome revolution has opened the door to an understanding
of life at the molecular level. The Department of Energy established
the Genomes to Life program to make this revolution a reality
by a systems understanding life at its most basic level, to
understand the molecular machines of life, to discern how they
are regulated by processes contained within the genome and the
cell, and how communities of microbes carry out higher functionalities
in complex environments. The strategy is based on the application
of advanced high throughput technologies, informatics and computing,
and techniques and research strategies from multiple disciplines.
But the revolution in understanding these machines of life at
the nanoscale owes its vitality to revolutions in multiple fields
that have come to the same ability to create and understand
materials and devices and their properties and phenomena at
roughly the same time -- creating nanoscience and nanotechnologies.
Experimental and theoretical Materials science, computational,
synthetic and analytical chemistry, device science, and more
have simultaneously come to this watershed set of capabilities
which promise limitless discovery and innovation in the next
century. All of these fields will rely on similar techniques
and instrumentation, and the application of theory, modeling
and simulation and the utilization of immense data structures
and ultrascale computers. The Genome to Life facilities will
contain many of these new instruments and the special environments
required to apply them to understanding the molecular basis
of life -- one the nations highest scientific priorities. The
rationale, strategy and overall design of the GTL facilities
and similar facilities throughout the country will be discussed.
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Sandia
National Laboratories
Manager of
the Surface and Interface Science Department
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Neal D. Shinn is the Manager
of the Surface and Interface Science Department at
Sandia National Laboratories. His department conducts
basic research to better understand and predict the
physical, chemical and mechanical properties of solid
surfaces and materials interfaces. Dr. Shinn is also
the Technical Coordinator and Outreach Coordinator
for the DOE Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies,
a collaborative National User Facility operated jointly
by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. As
an Adjunct Professor in the Physics Department
of Utah State University, he co-advises graduate
thesis research in surface electronic properties.
Dr Shinn received his B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics
from Penn State University and holds a Ph.D. in Chemical
Physics from MIT. Prior to joining Sandia in 1985
as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff, he was
a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at
the National Institute of Standards and Technology
in Gaithersburg, MD. He has been a visiting scientist
at the National Synchrotron Light Source, where he
served on and chaired the Users Executive Committee.
Dr. Shinn has served on review panels for the Department
of Energy and National Institutes of Health and holds
various positions in National and international professional
organizations.
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PRESENTATION:
A NEW MODEL FOR A NANOSCIENCE RESEARCH USER FACILITY
The DOE Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
is a National User Facility, jointly operated by Los
Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, devoted to
establishing the scientific principles that govern the
design, performance, and integration of nanoscale materials.
The $76-million project includes two new facilities
and associated instrumentation to support research in
nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, nanomechanics, nano-bio-micro
interfaces, complex functional materials, theory and
simulation. The 93,000-ft2 Core Facility to be constructed
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, consists of a characterization
wing, a phys/chem/bio synthesis wing, and a class 1000
integration laboratory all connected by office and interaction
areas. The building is designed to create a highly interdisciplinary
environment to incubate nanoscience integration projects
and bring external users into frequent contact with
laboratory scientists. Through Gateways to both Los
Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, CINT will provide
access to more specialized tools and expertise, and
leverage existing capabilities. The CINT Gateway to
Sandia will be housed in existing space and provides
nanomaterials/microfabrication capabilities. The 31,000-ft2
Gateway to Los Alamos will be constructed near existing
materials science activities at LANL to bring bioscience
and nanomaterials expertise together. The CINT research
tools, space allocations, flexibility features, and
access protocols will be described.
Sandia is a multiprogram
laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed
Martin Company, for the United States Department of
Energy under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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HDR Architecture, Inc.
Senior
Mechanical Engineer
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Toussaint is a Senior Chemical/Process Engineer with
over twenty-one years of experience. He has a long history
and deep understanding of research and manufacturing
facilities and equipment and the processes involved
in each. He is able to relate that information into
the complex buildings systems and functional requirements
for nanotechnology and microelectronics facilities.
Mr. Toussaint's skills range from setting the process
engineering criteria to designing the systems for a
fully functional facility. His recent project experience
includes Purdue University’s Birck Nanotechnology Center,
Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Integrated
Nanotechnologies (CINT) and Brookhaven National Laboratory’s
Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
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PRESENTATION
(Norm Toussaint, William Acorn and Chris Case):
OUTLINING TRENDS AND DEVELOPING
SOLUTIONS: MECHANICAL AND PROCESS SYSTEMS
Buildings that are designed and constructed
to support advanced technology needs can differ greatly from
conventional institutional and industrial facilities. Examples
of these building types include forensics laboratories, biological
research laboratories, and nanotechnology laboratories. Differences
range from environmental (temperature and humidity criteria)
to functional (for example, the desire to locate "interactive
spaces" close to laboratories, with resulting concerns
about hazardous material or contaminant migration and effect
of non-controlled adjacent spaces on sensitive equipment and
operations). It is critical that the owner and design team
clearly understand these differences. The decisions necessary
to meet advanced technical requirements must frequently be
made during the programming and early design process, and
the solutions are frequently multi-discipline in nature.
In this forum, the panel will highlight
current trends in mechanical and process system requirements
for advanced technology facilities, and discuss solutions
that address these requirements.
Among the topics that will be discussed:
- Questioning the need or appropriate class of cleanrooms
for critical R&D, metrology, and assembly functions
- Definition of temperature and humidity stability criteria
- Evaluation of alternative fume hood technologies
- Energy conservation strategies, and compliance with energy
codes such as ASHRAE 90.1
- Requirements for hazardous material storage and handling,
and implications for user facilities
- Comparison of central vs. distributed process systems
- Baselining and improving water use efficiency
A number of solutions to these
and other design challenges will be presented in the form
of case studies of recent advanced technology facility projects.
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University
of Alberta
Director
of Facilities
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Phil Haswell has been with the
Faculty of Engineering at the University
of Alberta for 31 years in various teaching,
research, technology transfer and administrative positions
and has been the Director of Facilities for the Faculty
of Engineering since 1999. He is also a cofounder
of the Alberta Microelectronic Centre (now Micralyne).
Haswell has a BEd and a BSc from the University of
Alberta and a Diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute
of Technology and is a member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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PRESENTATION:
During the last four years the Faculty of Engineering
at the University of Alberta has directed the design
and construction of over 93,000 square meters (Approximately
1,000,000 square feet) of teaching, administrative and
research space for the Faculty. The value of the projects
completed to date and those under construction total
approximately CDN$200 million. One of the projects presently
under construction in the Engineering precinct, the
21,000 square meter (226,000 square feet) National Institute
for Nanotechnology (NINT), represents a unique partnership
between the National Research Council of Canada (NRC),
the Alberta Provincial Government and the University
of Alberta. NINT is planned as a national laboratory
and will provide a forum for research in three nanotechnology
related areas: biological systems, information and communications
technologies and nanomaterials with energy applications.
The NINT project budget, when compared to other facilities
of this type, may be described by some as under funded.
However, we believe that the design team, NRC, and the
Faculty of Engineering working through the budget constraints
will deliver a building that meets the intended purpose
of providing a facility that can meet present and future
research needs. Issues relating to our response to the
budget constraints while maintaining the integrity of
the design intent will be presented.
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Gilbane
Building Company
Vice President,
Senior Business Development Manager
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Mr. Harper has over 34 years
of construction experience encompassing a variety
of project types. Bob attended Arizona State University,
majoring in Construction Engineering before joining
Gilbane 34 years ago. He has a thorough knowledge
of construction management and field operations,
having served as Field Engineer, Superintendent, Purchasing
Agent, Manager of Purchasing, Senior Project Manager,
and Project Executive. Some of Bob's projects have
included: the Genentech Vacaville, California biopharmaceutical
manufacturing campus, the General Motors Truck and
Bus Plant in Pontiac, Michigan, the FDA Laboratory
at Irvine, California, and Sterling Winthrop's Pharmaceutical
Research and Development Campus in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
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PRESENTATION:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project (Contract) Delivery Methods, Quality Process
and Commissioning. Buildings for Advanced Technology
require solid project management skills, practices and
procedures to meet critical schedules, within the established
budget restraints, while delivering the required quality
for today's high tech facilities. This presentation
will explore some of the different contracting methods
available to quickly deliver your facility. A proven
quality process will be explored which delivers the
specified materials and craftsmanship. If the project
does not start up and perform as designed it will not
be a success; the commissioning process starts at the
beginning of the project.
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Brookhaven
National Laboratory
Director
of BNL Center for Functional Nanomaterials
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Robert Q. Hwang is the director
of the Brookhaven National Laboratory Center for Functional
Nanomaterials (CFN), which is one of 5 DOE Office
of Science sponsored Nanoscale Science Research Center
national user facilities. Prior to this position,
he managed the Thin Film and Interface Science
department at Sandia National Laboratories.
He earned his BS in physics from UCLA and his PhD
from the University of Maryland. He was a post-doc
at Lawrence Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley and a Humboldt
Fellow at the University of Munich. Bob's interests
include atomistic mechanisms in thin film growth and
metal alloying, thin film and interfacial strain,
corrosion and nano-scale properties of metals.
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PRESENTATION:
THE BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY CENTER FOR FUNCTIONAL
NANOMATERIALS
The Brookhaven National Laboratory Center for Functional
Nanomaterials (CFN) will provide researchers with
state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate and study
nanoscale materials. Functional materials are those
which exhibit a predetermined chemical or physical
response to external stimuli. The Center's focus is
to achieve a basic understanding of how these materials
respond when in nanoscale form. Nanomaterials--typically
on the scale of billionths of a meter--offer different
chemical and physical properties than bulk materials,
and have the potential to form the basis of new technologies.
In this presentation, I will describe the missions
of the CFN and how they couple to the building design
and performance.
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M
+ W Zander
Director
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Steve Riojas is a registered
architect and urban planner who has focused his
24-year career in the planning, design and construction
of environments for advanced technology research,
development and manufacturing. His experience
includes projects throughout the United States, Europe
and the Pacific Rim.
Within M+W Zander's global practice,
Mr. Riojas directs the company's US-based science
market, which includes R&D facilities for government,
university and corporate clients. Additionally, Mr.
Riojas directs the US Operations' Emerging Technology
Initiative, which includes facilities for promising
and cross-disciplinary research fields of materials,
electronics, biology, chemistry, computational theory,
as well as enabling and disruptive technology development.
Mr. Riojas has provided
planning and architectural services for numerous clients,
including Albany NanoTech at the University at Albany,
State University of New York, and the Center for Nanoscale
Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. He is an
enthusiastic and frequent contributor to nanotechnology
events and publications.
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Terry Abair
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Sundt
Construction
Project
Director
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Terry Abair has been in the
construction industry since 1973 and joined Sundt
Construction in 1978. In his current position
as project director, he is responsible for overseeing
multiple projects as well as directs the company's
most complex and difficult building projects. He has
managed institutional, industrial and commercial
projects with values up to $220 million. Mr. Abair's
career highlights include managing five of Sundt's
most significant projects, which includes Phase
I and II of the Arizona Biodesign Institute and the
Lattie F. Coor Hall, all of which are currently
under construction. He is a past president and is
currently the director of the Arizona ABC Chapter
and has served the construction industry both locally
and nationally as a committee member and on Boards
of Directors. Mr. Abair received his B.S. in Construction
Engineering and Management from Arizona State University.
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PRESENTATION:
PROJECT DELIVERY OF ARIZONA BIO-DESIGN INSTITUTE AT
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
The first two phases of the Arizona
Bio-Design Institute totals 344,000 square feet of
laboratory, vivarium and office space for cutting
edge research in areas such as neural rehabilitation,
genomics, molecular biophysics, neutraceuticals and
edible vaccines, and nano-scale bio-optics and bioscience.
The research will be interdisciplinary in nature with
a focus on the life sciences, bio-engineering and
biotechnology. A primary aim in building this facility
is to accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation.
The facility has been designed to meet the most stringent
demands by experimental programs in biotechnology
and nanotechnology; to enhance communication and collaboration
between researchers with an open, shared lab design
and a central atrium linking all floors; to be flexible
allowing for rapid reconfiguration of space and equipment
to meet the changing demands of the research programs;
and to be a hub providing the linkage between the
multi-disciplinary research groups and those from
leading industries and regional institutions.
The joint venture of Sundt Construction
and DPR Construction are the CM at Risk for Arizona
Bio-Design Institute Phases I and II. Phase I is scheduled
for completion in Fall of 2004 and Phase II is scheduled
for completion in the Fall of 2005.
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HDR
Architecture, Inc.
Vice
President
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Tom
Gerbo is a Vice President of HDR Architecture,
Inc. located in Tucson, Arizona. Tom has over
20 years of experience in the programming,
planning, design and management of
technically complex facility projects. He has
designed laboratories for Chiron, Genetech,
Dr. LeRoy Hood at Caltech and the University
of Washington, the Army Research Laboratory,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, UCLA,
University of Michigan, Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center among others. Tom also
has extensive design experience in the microelectronics
arena with clients such as Analog Devices, Intel,
IBM and Wacker Siltronic. Tom is currently working
for Sandia National Laboratories, Purdue
University, University of South Florida and
the National Research Council of Canada on
their respective nanotechnology facilities. He has
developed a Biotechnology Space Program Model for
research laboratories.
Tom is a member of the Southern Arizona Chapter of
the American Institute of Architects, Construction
Research and Education for Advanced Technology Environments
(CREATE) and is an Ad Hoc member of the NIH National
Council for Research Resources, Scientfic and Technical
Review Board. He is a registered architect in Arizona
and California and a graduate of the Catholic University
of America in Washington, DC.
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PRESENTATION
(Tom Gerbo, Ken Filar, David Gibney):
CAUSE AND EFFECT: TRENDS IN RESEARCH FACILITY DESIGN
More and more Requests for Qualifications/Proposals
are coming out for world class, integrated interdisciplinary
research facilities. What are the driving forces behind
this kind of facility? Understanding these forces
have led to a variety of design solutions. Science
and technology is converging at a rapid pace under
the umbrella of nanotechnology. Scientific breakthroughs
such as the development and commercialization of the
carbon nanotube, the atomic force microscope, and
mapping the human genome have led to a new brand of
science bridging the basic and applied sciences. Environmental
conditions in the laboratory are becoming more restrictive.
Social factors such as vertically integrated research
groups and a generational shift in work philosophy,
as well as steep competition among institutions have
had a profound impact on the types of spaces and the
configuration of those spaces. Geopolitical forces
have influenced safety and security. New regulations
and standards are also having an effect on the design
of research facilities. Finally, budgets are getting
tighter whole instrumentation costs are rising.
In this session Tom Gerbo, Ken Filar and David Gibney
will look at the root causes and resulting effects
for these facilities and design solutions that have
been employed to address these unique requirements
of the nanoscience facility. Mr. Gerbo and Mr. Filar
will address the programmatic drivers behind these
facilities and discuss specific projects that are
designed to these parameters. David Gibney will look
in depth at the impact of Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design and will discuss the requirements
of LEED certification.
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JEOL
USA, Inc.
Assistant
TEM Product Manager
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Tom Isabell is the Assistant
TEM Product Manager for JEOL USA, Inc. JEOL is
a world leader in the manufacture, distribution &
service of the highest performance electron beam instruments
and analytical equipment. Core product groups include:
electron microscopes, including scanning electron
microscopes (SEMs) and transmission electron microscopes
(TEMs), electron optical instruments for the semiconductor
industry, including electron beam lithography and
a series of defect review and inspection tools and
analytical instruments including mass spectrometers,
NMRs, and ESRs.
Tom has seven years
experience in the electron microscopy field. His
experience includes business development, domestic
and international sales, customer support, applications
support, and design and development of specimen preparation
equipment for electron microscopy. His research
has included application development and the relationships
between atomic scale structure and properties at various
interfaces. Tom received a Ph.D. from Northwestern
University in Materials Science and Engineering and
a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
from the University of Minnesota.
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PRESENTATION:
ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION FACILITY REQUIREMENTS
FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY
Materials for nanotechnology are imaged and chemically
analyzed at the atomic level. Performing these experiments
requires highly specialized analytical instrumentation.
Simply purchasing these tools does not ensure that
they will achieve their required capabilities. Great
care must go into the design of a facility intended
for these instruments to eliminate any environmental
effects upon their performance.
In designing a facility for analytical instrumentation,
there are a number of requirements that must be met.
Some of these requirements are general, such as lighting,
heating, ventilation, privacy and safety. Due to the
sensitive nature of the instruments needed for characterization
in nanotechnology, a number of special requirements
also exist. These instruments are sensitive detectors
of mechanical vibration, magnetic fields and electrical,
thermal and pressure disturbances. The performance
of an instrument is seriously degraded if the various
ambient disturbances are not reduced to an adequately
low level. It is easier to initially design a facility
to eliminate these factors than to correct for them
after installation of the instrument.
This presentation will illustrate the capabilities
of some of the tools used in nanotechnology characterization,
and will discuss the deleterious effects of ambient
disturbances on their performance. Specific requirements
for the installation of atomic resolution transmission
electron microscopes (TEM) will be given, as these
instruments are often some of the most sensitive that
will be installed in these facilities.
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Acorn
Consulting Services
Principal
and Founder
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William R. Acorn is principal
and founder of Acorn Consulting Services (ACS),
which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.
For almost 30 years, he has been involved in
the analysis and design of hundreds of projects
ranging from institutional laboratories to
cleanroom facilities for the semiconductor industry.
Mr. Acorn's active consulting practice involves all
aspects of the built environment, including; strategic
planning, programming, conceptual design studies,
value analysis studies, energy conservation, adaptive
re-use evaluations, peer review, code compliance analysis
and liaison with regulators for hazardous occupancies,
expedited project delivery systems and forensic engineering
analysis of failed systems.
Mr. Acorn was vice president and Chief Mechanical
Engineer for two consulting firms.
He was also a visiting lecturer on the topic of
heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems
(HVAC) at the University of Arizona College of
Architecture for nine years.
As an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University
he delivers seminars several times a year at various
locations throughout the U.S.
Mr. Acorn has also been involved since the inception
of the "Center" at Arizona State University
for research and development in the design and construction
of advanced technology facilities (CREATE).
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PRESENTATION
(Norm Toussaint, William Acorn and Chris Case):
OUTLINING TRENDS AND DEVELOPING
SOLUTIONS: MECHANICAL AND PROCESS SYSTEMS
Buildings that are designed
and constructed to support advanced technology needs
can differ greatly from conventional institutional
and industrial facilities. Examples of these building
types include forensics laboratories, biological research
laboratories, and nanotechnology laboratories. Differences
range from environmental (temperature and humidity
criteria) to functional (for example, the desire to
locate "interactive spaces" close to laboratories,
with resulting concerns about hazardous material or
contaminant migration and effect of non-controlled
adjacent spaces on sensitive equipment and operations).
It is critical that the owner and design team clearly
understand these differences. The decisions necessary
to meet advanced technical requirements must frequently
be made during the programming and early design process,
and the solutions are frequently multi-discipline
in nature.
In this forum, the panel will
highlight current trends in mechanical and process
system requirements for advanced technology facilities,
and discuss solutions that address these requirements.
Among the topics that will be
discussed:
- Questioning the need or appropriate class of cleanrooms
for critical R&D, metrology, and assembly functions
- Definition of temperature and humidity stability
criteria
- Evaluation of alternative fume hood technologies
- Energy conservation strategies, and compliance with
energy codes such as ASHRAE 90.1
- Requirements for hazardous material storage and
handling, and implications for user facilities
- Comparison of central vs. distributed process systems
- Baselining and improving water use efficiency
A number of solutions
to these and other design challenges will be presented
in the form of case studies of recent advanced technology
facility projects.
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