Building Type Basics for Research Laboratories - Rilegato

Watch, Daniel

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ISBN 10: 0471392367 ISBN 13: 9780471392361

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001

Riassunto

Planning to initiate designs for government, academic, and private research laboratories? Here's the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

• Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details,
• Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, energy, cost, and safety issues that are unique to research laboratories.

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L'autore

DANIEL D. WATCH, AIA, is an architect and laboratory planner with the renowned architectural firm Perkins & Will (recipient of the American Institute of Architects? 1999 National Architecture Firm Award). He has personally coordinated the design of nearly twenty major research laboratory facilities.

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Everything you need to know to initiate and complete the design of a research lab

Building Type Basics for Research Laboratories is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the design process and successfully complete a project on time and within budget. In this book, renowned architect and laboratory planner Daniel Watch shares his knowledge and expertise on a broad scope of issues that are essential to the design of government, private sector, and academic research laboratories.

The book addresses the shift from individual research to team-based research, the impact of computer technology on laboratory design, "flexible" buildings, renovation guidelines, and safety issues. It provides critical information on the process, potential problems, design concerns, and recent trends in research laboratory design, along with complete coverage of energy issues and mechanical systems, structural concerns, lighting, internal traffic, security, ADA issues, and much more.

This indispensable guide:

• Asks and answers twenty questions that frequently arise in the early phases of a project commission

• Provides project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details

• Includes guidelines for private, academic, and government research labs

Not only does this book offer current, authoritative information, its comprehensive coverage and logical organization also save you countless hours of research.

Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials needed to jump-start specialized facilities design. Each volume features leading experts in the field who address the issues that shape the early phases of a project commission in a convenient, easy-to-use format. The result is an unsurpassed group of hands-on references that put critical information at your fingertips.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0471392367
• ISBN 13: 9780471392361
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 275