Aug 18 2007
Architect John Weinman, leader of internationally renowned architecture firm Perkins+Will’s Nanoscience + Engineering Laboratory Group, will share his knowledge in master planning, programming and designing laboratory facilities at nanoTX’07 Conference and Expo, Dallas Convention Center, October 3-4.
With 30 years experience for research, government, industry and education facilities, his current and past clients for nanoscience-related laboratory projects include such prestigious organizations as MIT, Yale, the University of California System, the University of Texas System, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Boulder, Colorado (Advanced Measurement Laboratory) and the Chevron and Petronis Oil Company, among many others.
“We are grateful John is willing to share his knowledge,” said Cline Taplin, the nanoTX’07 executive who recruited him, “there is currently so much discussion of nano-safety that we really needed to address the subject at this year’s event. John is a great addition to the exhibits we have from the EPA, NIOSH and Center for Disease Control. And Perkins+Will brings a much needed view that compliments the intense Environment & Health Summit taking place at the event both days.”
Mr. Weinman’s presentation will focus on how to ensure laboratory design successfully meets the complex needs of interdisciplinary nanoscience research teams --- without the benefit of “adequate” short or long-term programming knowledge --- while being responsive to limited capital budgets. He will address nanoscience-related facilities issues on a strategic level as well as discussing the specific design and construction challenges of three different types of nanoscience laboratory space, including:
- Areas addressing fundamental investigations and carrying on process research at a “skunk works” level;
- Spaces dedicated to characterization, imaging, and metrology; and,
- Contamination-controlled environments where fabrication takes place.
Perkins+Will is recognized as one of the world’s leading designers of science and technology-based facilities with a wealth of expertise in the highly technical design demands of nanotechnology, physical science, engineering research and teaching laboratories. As a fully integrated center of knowledge for the firm, the Nanoscience + Engineering Laboratory Group works in close association with other experts, project teams and offices throughout the Perkins+Will organization, applying its extensive knowledge and experience in integrating the programmatic and sophisticated equipment requirements of the engineering education and research disciplines to the design of the state-of-the-art, environmentally responsive facilities.