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Navigating the Real Estate Market
10:00am – 11:15am
Finding space can be a challenge for Bay Area life science companies. Knowing how to navigate the Bay can help you accomplish the process with a minimum of downtime, frustration, and wasted costs. This panel will present the results of the Bay Bio 2005 Annual Real Estate survey and discuss its insights into industry best practices, community rankings and implications for future real estate decisions facing the Bay Bio community. The panel will also discuss the secrets of “leasing smart”; starting with how to develop an internal needs analysis, how to gather intelligence on real estate markets, and understanding the local entitlement process. This session will also advise on lease cost analyses, lease negotiation techniques, the impact of building codes, FDA and OSHA regulations as well as offer tips on how to manage the planning, design and construction process.
This panel discussion will help you understand: Information on lease rate trends in the regional lab space market; Characterization of the current supply and demand of laboratory space; How to gather intelligence on Bay Area communities on such issues as workforce access, ease of obtaining entitlement and permits, and ability to accommodate future growth; How to develop an internal needs assessments, and use it as a tool to locate and “size up” potential properties; How to analyze lease rates and evaluate least options; How to forecast capital costs such as construction and other related “soft” costs; How to connect with professionals that can help you steer the course.
Panel Moderator:
Gary Miller
Director, DBC Investment Group
Panel Speakers:
Douglas Davis, AIA
Hitech Construction Management & Design, Inc.
Geoff Davis
President, DBC Real Estate Services, Inc.
Kathleen Imhoff
Principal, Pacific BioFacilities
Richard Minert
Principal, Minert Architects
Brad Werner
Senior Vice President, CB Richard Ellis
John Vajda
Vice-President Manufacturing, World Heart, Inc.
Energy Conservation and Electric Issues in California
11:30am – 12:45pm
This session will focus on a forward looking overview of the electric supply situation for Northern California will be discussed as well as developing innovative strategies for making laboratory environments more energy efficient, while improving their environmental performance. Specific topics will include:
Future energy issues such as Critical Peak Pricing are currently very topical. At the direction of the California Public Utilities Commission, PG&E will be implementing these tariffs in summer 2006. If you are a customer with a demand of 200 kW or greater, this filing impacts you, and there are critical questions you need begin taking action on now. Discover what actions you can take and how PG&E can assist you. A critical peak pricing success story will be presented by bioscience customer Gilead Sciences.
Additionally, a variety ways will be discussed that enable laboratories to start and operate fans and other building systems with dramatically reduced energy. It has been shown that innovative laboratory design strategies have achieved close to 50% lower energy use compared to the standard system designs, while improving their indoor air quality. Relevant energy efficiency program information will be discussed as well as Labs21 resources. Labs21 is a voluntary EPA and DOE program dedicated to improving the environmental performance of laboratories. A description of the tools and resources available from the Labs21 program will be presented.
Panel Moderator:
Dan Hipple
Senior Director, Facilities and EH&S, Theravance
Panel Speakers:
Eric Giles
Facilities Supervisor, Gilead Sciences
Bob Kinert
Manager of Integrated Demand Side Management (IDSM) Program Services
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Peter Rumsey
Principal, Rumsey Engineers
The Changing California Codes
2:00pm – 3:15pm
The State of California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) has made the decision to adopt the International Codes as its model codes. This action will allow state agencies to move forward with the adoption of the International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), and International Fire Code (IFC). The CBSC adopted the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) and Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC) as model codes for their respective trades some time ago.
The respective International model codes will be the core of the next generation of California Building Codes when they are issued within the next two years. The 2004 California Electrical Code has been published and will become effective August 1, 2005.
A panel experienced in the regulatory side of life science facilities development will share their “insiders” knowledge and explore the following questions: How will the new codes effect our biotech facilities, what must we do, and when will it happen?
Panel Moderator:
Robert A. D'Elia
Life Science Industry Leader, South Bay Construction
Panel Speakers:
Jeff Tarter
Vice President, Integrated Engineering Services
Reinhard Hanselka
President, Integrated Engineering Services
