Program growth in existing facilities: Proven research group consolidation models

Pressure is increasing to expand research groups without enlarging building footprints or requiring significant infrastructure modifications. This session tests the limits of what can be accomplished and how, including pursuit of new collaborative research paradigms, the decommissioning of outdated facilities, and the consolidation from multiple separate facilities to just a few or even one. Edwin Hargrave identifies planning process headwinds to expect surrounding accommodating research groups equitably in a fixed-resource context. He charts database-driven area standards for lab spaces, lays out alternative space allocation metrics, and highlights shared resource opportunities.