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Tours and Receptions
Tour and Reception at the Medical University
of South Carolina
Tuesday, October 2
Participants toured several buildings on the Medical University
of South Carolina campus, including the Darby
Children’s Research Institute;
the Storm Eye Institute
; the brand new, but not yet operational Ashley River Tower hospital
facility; and the award-winning central energy plant. The tour explored
these unique facilities and taught participants how each adapts
to Charleston’s building and sustainability needs. Participants
explored the complexities of providing laboratory spaces within
an existing, functional medical center, including space limitations,
power and emergency needs, and containment and access issues. In
conjunction with the tours, attendees enjoyed a reception with a
view from the 8th floor of the Storm Eye Institute.
Explore Charleston!
Wednesday, October 3
Labs21 conference attendees were able to take an evening
off with their families, friends, or colleagues to explore, enjoy,
and network in exciting downtown Charleston.
Tour and Lunch at The Navy Yard
at Noisette
Thursday, October 4
At the close of the conference, attendees had an opportunity to
explore one of the largest sustainable development projects in the
country, as presented in the conference keynote
speeches. The Navy Yard at Noisette,
a 340 acre section of land on the site of the former Charleston
Naval Base, provided visitors with an appreciation of the scope
and dynamics involved in targeting such a large site for sustainable
development. Participants considered ways to integrate sustainable
research facilities and infrastructure requirements into the challenging
context of the site; toured the adjacent research facility for the
recently recovered Hunley
submarine (2 pp, 1.55 MB), which is defining the research objective for the 82-acre
Clemson
University Restoration Institute
area of the site just south of the
Navy Yard at Noisette; and enjoyed a Lowcountry lunch at
10 Storehouse Row, a former Navy storehouse on the Noisette campus
that has been converted into a successful retail space.
To learn more about the Labs21 tour of Noisette, view the Labs21/Noisette
electronic flier (1 pp, 718 KB) or the article on the Hunley
submarine (13 pp, 687 KB) published by the International Journal of Nautical Archeology
(2004).
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