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Designing Toward Absolute Zero: Practical Strategies for Carbon-Neutral Laboratories
At the 2025 Lab Design Conference, Kristen DiStefano of Atelier Ten and Ryan Velasco of ZGF urged the industry to move beyond net zero and embrace absolute zero carbon design, emphasizing that through passive, all-electric systems, adaptive reuse, renewable energy, and carbon-sequestering materials, laboratories can lead the way in redefining sustainable architecture for high-performance environments
Lessons from a Mass Timber, Zero-Carbon Lab Design
The design and construction of Western Washington University’s Kaiser Borsari Hall, a pioneering zero-energy, carbon-neutral STEM building, overcame challenges with mass timber implementation, embodied carbon reduction, and sustainable energy strategies while ensuring flexibility, inclusivity, and long-term operational efficiency
Timber, Tech, and Sustainability: Inside OSU's Groundbreaking Research Complex
The Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex at Oregon State University will be the first all-mass-timber experimental research laboratory in the US that meets rigorous vibration criteria (2000 MIPS)