Andrei Koshelev has served as the Head of Asset Management Hönggerberg since 2018, overseeing more than fifty research, educational, and office buildings at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. His team acts as a Client Representative on over one hundred educational, laboratory, and infrastructure construction projects annually. ETH Zurich, the leading Swiss federal educational and research institution, consistently ranking number one in continental Europe, boasts a portfolio of 220 educational and research buildings, with many state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. Andrei Koshelev is a co-founder of ks:architecture (established in 2005), an international planning and consulting practice based in Zurich. Andrei gained extensive experience with large, technologically complex projects as a Project Architect and Associate Member of the Partnership Group at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), working in both the Chicago and London offices from 1998 to 2005. Independently and with SOM Andrei has realized public, commercial and residential projects in the USA, United Kingdom, Russia, and Switzerland. Andrei Koshelev holds an Architect's Diploma from Moscow Architecture Institute, Russia (1994), and a Master of Science in Architecture Degree from the University of Cincinnati, USA (1996). He is an IPMA- Certified Project Manager, a licensed architect in the USA (IL), and a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Swiss Union of Architects and Engineers (SIA).
Laboratory buildings consume significant resources in their construction and operation. Today, "sustainability" flashes in every presentation, with more and more methods and strategies attached, and less and less thinking done. The harmful effects of technology-based industry on the environment are supposed to be counterbalanced with even more complex technology.
Instead of ever more complex lab buildings, we see potential in simple sustainability and circular economy. A 2024 Green Lab position paper proposes a “10R” strategy for laboratory buildings, systems, equipment, and consumables. The presentation will focus on the building and building systems.
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