The 4 Levels of Flexibility in the Sustainable Laboratory Building Design and Construction Process
Laboratories and especially vivariums are highly complex facilities, due to its equipment, the risks associated with products and operations carried out inside, and the high environmental impact of their activities. Besides that, the new global challenges that society must face highlight the need to opt for technology as a lifeline. Among these challenges for the laboratories in the XXI century is the high speed at which lines of research change and global world, which makes it possible that a scientific facility located in a particular site may need a change of location to ensure its viability. Both are reflected in a clear concept: flexibility.
This presentation will show the possibility of a new laboratory model, people-oriented, to optimize resources and to respect and protect the environment while facing the new challenges of flexibility of XXI century. The 3rd and 4th degree of flexibility aims to develop a system for flexible, industrialized and eco-technological laboratory buildings designed in order to match new challenges.
Bio: Mr. Adelmo Antelo
Managing Director of High Identity Buildings (HIB) & S* concept and the President of MAITE Foundation. After more than fifteen years of experience developing projects in the field of laboratory facilities around Europe, he founded three years ago the enterprise (HIB) & S* concept, devoted to consultancy, lab-planning, engineering, architecture and integral development of scientific buildings. Former Managing Director of subsidiaries of specialized company in planning and manufacturing laboratory furniture. Present board member of EGNATON and council member of GSLN (Global Sustainable Laboratory Network).
High Identity Buildings (HID), S.L.
Enterprise dedicated to the consultancy, lab-planning, engineering, architecture, integral development and facility management of buildings and laboratories. It develops projects for universities, research centers, hospitals, food and agriculture sector and petrochemical industry. HIB is settled in Ondarroa (Basque Country), Spain.
