Applying LEED® to Laboratories—Strategies and Lessons Learned
John Cocco, P.E., Sanofi-aventis
Norman Goldschmidt, Genesis Engineers, Inc.
The instructors will review real world challenges and solutions from their experience delivering three LEED-certified laboratory facilities. These facilities span a broad range of facility types and unique challenges, from a LEED Silver 100-year-old building retrofit for biology in Cambridge to a LEED Gold greenfield chemistry laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, to a LEED Gold or better oncology laboratory fit-out of a historical Ford Motor Company factory in Cambridge.
The presenters will discuss overcoming challenges inherent to each type of facility:
- Driving energy efficiency in a leased facility
- Influencing landlords to make sustainable choices
- Water Conservation
- Xeriscaping
- Adaptive Reuse
- Interfacing new low-emitting materials into old facilities
As an example, the latest of these projects addressed the following energy challenges: fit-out of a 100 percent outside air, leased laboratory and office for energy-efficient operations. Technology used included chilled beams, waterside free cooling, in-rack cooler for data center, VAV fume hoods with day-night set-back, enthalpy wheel humidity control, heat containment in the freezer farm, energy recovery in the vivarium, individually ventilated cage racks, and reduced air change rates in the vivarium.
Biographies:
John Cocco, P.E., is a senior project engineering manager for research and development site services at Sanofi-aventis. Mr. Cocco has more than 25 years of experience in facilities engineering and project management for strategic capital projects across the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Cocco has delivered projects from small building renovations to the development of greenfield campuses worldwide, for companies such as Cardinal Heath, Rorer, Facilitas, and Sanofi- aventis. Recently, Mr. Cocco has been engaged developing capital budgets and delivering critical facility renovations and expansions, including a genomics center, oncology center, research center, and vivarium. Mr. Cocco holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Temple University, and a Masters of Business Administration in finance from Drexel University. Mr. Cocco is a registered professional engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.
Norman Goldschmidt is a principal and vice principal of engineering at Genesis Engineers, Inc. a full-service engineering, design/build and commissioning, qualification, and verification firm based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Mr. Goldschmidt has more than two decades of experience in the life sciences, having served as senior director in global engineering at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) for 20 years. At BMS, Mr. Goldschmidt's organization was responsible for conceiving, planning, and designing both processes and facilities for all stages of product lifecycle. Mr. Goldschmidt studied mechanical engineering at the University of Buffalo and business at Empire State College. Mr. Goldschmidt has four patents for innovations in HVAC and pharmaceutical processing, is a member and author on several International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), ASHRAE and International Organization for Standardization technical committees, was team lead for the recent ISPE HVAC Good Practice Guide, and is a frequent guest lecturer for ISPE, ASHRAE, and other organizations.