Resources

This guide describes energy efficiency metrics and benchmarks that can be used to track the performance of and identify potential opportunities to reduce energy use in laboratory buildings.

Recent changes in lab ventilation technologies have created new opportunities for conserving energy while maintaining a safe work environment.This guide provides an overview of these opportunities and how they are rel

Fume hoods—small but essential safety devices used in laboratory environments—are highly energy-intensive, each one consuming more energy than three homes in an average U.S. climate.

Partnership Agreement for the Better Buildings Smart Labs Accelerator. 

Overview, space attributes, relevant codes and standards, and major resources related to whole building design of wet laboratories.

Founded in 1980, IFMA is the world's largest and most widely recognized international association for facility management professionals, supporting 24,000 members in 105 countries.

The 2012 CBECS microdata files are now available for public use. These files contain untabulated records for individual buildings so that data users can create custom tables that are not available through the pretabulated Detailed Tables.

Green Healthcare Institutions : Health, Environment, and Economics, Workshop Summary is based on the ninth workshop in a series of workshops sponsored by the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine since the roundtable began

Design, restorative building, biophilia, enhanced air quality and high performance building systems. Written by leading national experts on the subject -- one of whom was recognized by Time magazine as a green innovator -- Sustainable Healthcare Archite

CHD's mission is to transform healthcare environments for a healthier, safer world through design research, education, and advocacy (health care sustainability group).

This report reviews previous guidelines and strategies for preventing environment-associated infections in health-care facilities and offers recommendations. Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPA