What major laboratory buildings have been constructed in the U.S. in
the last 10 years? New buildings only- not renovations of existing
labs.
Only need the larger facilities - approximate threshold would be
greater than $20 million cost or greater than 100,000 square feet of
building.
This would include Colleges/Universities, Corporations, Government.
All types of laboratories. Institutional Research; Corp R&D; Teaching
Labs. Don't need manufacturing facilities or purely IT labs. Primary
purpose of facility should be lab- so a $20 million hospital with a
tiny blood lab isn't desired on the list.
At minimum the list should contain the following data:
Organization | Building Name | Location | Project Size in Cost or Square Feet
IE: ABC Corp | The Drug Discovery Institute | Anytown USA | $50
Million (or 200,000 SF).
I understand you cannot assure the list is 100% complete; however I'd
like to feel confident the list is likely to represent at least 80% of
buildings fitting this description. |
Clarification of Question by
jskh-ga
on
20 Aug 2005 20:33 PDT
This is my first trial of Answers and I would appreciate advice on how
to reframe my question to reach a positive result. Without any
feedback, it's hard to know if my question is too difficult, my list
price is too low, or both.
I don't have an urgent or specific task here. I just wanted to give
Answers a try so I composed a question that seemed well beyond my own
search skills and would be very useful to me if answered.
Thank you!
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Request for Question Clarification by
czh-ga
on
06 Sep 2005 13:02 PDT
Hello jskh-ga,
You?ve posted an attractive price for this question and what you?re
asking for is specific enough that it would seem that someone would
have compiled this information. My preliminary research contradicts
this assumption. There doesn?t seem to be anyone tracking the
construction of new laboratories as a specific market. Part of the
problem is that the funding for major laboratories comes from a
variety of sources and the information does not seem to be collected
and organized by anyone.
This doesn?t mean that information about large scale laboratory
construction projects is not available. Rather, it seems that it will
require brute research to collect the information. The best
information sources seem to be announcements by the institutions
receiving funding for their projects, by the construction companies
winning the projects, by the agencies or organizations funding the
projects or the communities where the projects are located. I?ve also
found some industry organizations/associations and trade journals that
track and report on laboratory construction projects.
You said, ?I don't have an urgent or specific task here.? I would like
to help you with redefining the project so that you can get some
useful information. It would be helpful if you would set some more
limited parameters on the research. One possibility might be to
request a set number of construction projects per category of
laboratory.
I would be happy to pursue your project but I don?t know how to
proceed. Please let me know what kind of information would be useful
to you considering the problems involved with conduction this
research.
I look forward to your clarification.
~ czh ~
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Clarification of Question by
jskh-ga
on
06 Sep 2005 15:10 PDT
Hello czh,
Thank you for your response and for your initial background research.
It's useful to know that there doesn't appear to be one source for the
information; and that brute research approach seems to be the only way
to build this list.
Your idea about a set number of projects per category is one way to
make the answer more attainable; however the answer's value to me is
largely in knowing that it is a nearly complete list. So if I ask for
50 labs/category and there are actually 500 each, it's not nearly as
useful. Any other ideas to reach a list that we can be confident is
80% complete?
My list price was ~$50 when I posted my clarification 20 Aug 2005, so
my comment about reframing the question was a pitch for the closest
answer available for that price. For the current price of $200, I
would like to get an answer more responsive to the orignal request.
jskh-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
czh-ga
on
06 Sep 2005 16:31 PDT
Hello again jskh-ga,
Thank you for the clarification. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to
proceed. You say that ?the answer?s value to me is largely in knowing
that it is a nearly complete list? but I have not found any way of
estimating how big the complete list might be. Calculating 80% of an
unknown (possibly unknowable) quantity leaves me with no direction for
getting you what you need.
I haven?t even been able to find the usual expensive market research
reports that I would expect to see to help set the parameters for the
size of the market. Instead, I?m including a few links to websites
that monitor the industry.
I?m unlocking the question so that someone else might come up with a
better approach for estimating how many large research laboratories
were constructed in the last ten years and then devise a method for
identifying them.
Good luck.
~ czh ~
http://www.rdmag.com/
http://www.labdesignnews.com/LaboratoryDesign/index.asp
http://www.labdesignnews.com/LaboratoryDesign/NewProject.asp
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http://www.wbdg.org/design/research.php
The Whole Building Design Guide
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http://www.animallab.com/articles.asp?pid=123
2005 National Laboratory Construction Costs
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Clarification of Question by
jskh-ga
on
07 Sep 2005 21:16 PDT
czh - Thank you for your efforts.
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