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Designing a Flexible and Resilient Research Building Through Integrated Planning

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Published June 16, 2025
Presented by Geoff Bock, Director of Operations, N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University at Raleigh | Charles Mummert, Design Principal, Flad Architects | Bob Sherman, Principal/Project Manager, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

This session will highlight how a collaborative team promoted innovation to enable decision making throughout the Plant Sciences Initiative design process at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Built pre-pandemic, this future-proofed building continues to successfully serve as an energizing hub for innovation. NCSU's integrated planning and data-driven process for designing a flexible academic research building has inspired cross-functional collaboration, leading to increased industry partnerships and innovations. Come learn how leveraging benchmarking, analytics, and an integrated planning process can produce a successfully designed, forward-thinking research building.

Learning Outcomes:


  1. Outline a stakeholder engagement and integrated planning process that supports innovations in program development.

  2. Identify 'stretch goals' for building performance and resiliency to inform future capital projects.

  3. Use creativity in your integrated planning process to maximize flexibility and resiliency with building systems.

  4. Use benchmarking, data, and pre- and post-occupancy evaluations to make informed decisions about space allocation and design.



Delivered 06/16/2025.

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