Treanor Architects, P.A.

After a highly competitive application process, Treanor Life Sciences was accepted to present at the Tradeline 2011 Animal Research Facilities conference in Las Vegas in November. The presentation will highlight the unique challenges and opportunities associated with the Kansas State University's Large Animal Research Center Relocation project that was accomplished from start to finish in 9 months. The speaking team includes representatives from the user group as well as the design-build team: Dr. Sally Olson, Assistant Director of KSU College of Veterinary Medicine's Comparative Medicine Group, Treanor Life Sciences Principal David Livingood, and Ramin Cherafat, Vice-President at McCown Gordon Construction.

The presentation will focus on:

• How to create a cohesive and effective project team in an extremely abbreviated time frame.
• How to compress the project discovery, planning, programming and design phases without compromising the mission of the animal research program.
• How to deal with the inevitable changes that occur during the design and construction due to the compressed time frame.
• How to contain scope creep and maintain the fixed budget.

This conference is the annual meeting for research veterinarians, capital project teams, project managers, engineering managers, animal facility operations managers, space planners, animal facility & vivarium managers, biosafety officers, and research program directors to benchmark their new management initiatives or animal facility construction programs for their institutions.