Space Renovations, Activation, and Commissioning

科学主任办公室（OSD）在2012财年启动了一项多年计划，以巩固校内研究部（NICHD）高度分散的研究项目。 超过70个不同的实验室和研究中心分布在七座建筑物中，这被证明是在基础和临床研究小组中创建跨学科和基于团队的研究环境的障碍，这是当代生物医学研究环境所需的。 2013年夏季，国家卫生研究院和国家排雷中心领导层委托的蓝丝带小组向国家排雷中心提出了报告，通过该小组的建议，国家排雷中心在巩固空间方面的努力得到了支持。 因此，通过与研究设施办公室（ORF）、NIH领导层以及研究中心的行政和科学工作人员进行仔细的规划，制定了一项计划，并拨出资金，以连续转移到数量较少的建筑群。 预计2021财年将完成所有搬迁。 具有共同知识和科学兴趣的实验室进行了重组，并将共同位于马里兰州贝塞斯达的NIH校园的六个建筑群中。 空间和设施规划领导人与研究人员进行了磋商，以优化研究空间，并实现必要的翻新，使我们的研究实验室现代化。 研究核心的共同定位以及共享资源和昂贵设备的机会是关键因素，包括与其他NIH研究所共享，这与NIH长期规划的结果一致。 在巩固空间和重新安置调查人员的其他刺激因素中，有计划拆除两个老化的设施，即18/32号楼和9号楼，这两个设施将由ORF拆除。这些建筑物几年前就计划拆除了。 所有这些情况都与2013年夏季以来实现的新战略计划和组织结构调整相结合，并批准于2015年10月1日生效。 新的实验室集群将由一名副科学主任（ASD）领导，负责每个科学专门知识职能领域，他将监督其综合实验室和调查人员群体的空间和设施需求以及资源管理。 最初的空间移动开始于FY 12与新的波特神经科学复合体，第二阶段，在那里的细胞和结构生物学和神经科学实验室的核心组，沿着成像核心，将被安置。 设计也开始在2012财年的一些实验室在物理生物学计划悬而未决的移动到大楼。在2013财年，设计开始为细胞生物学和代谢计划，分子医学计划，并在发育神经科学计划的一些实验室。 在2014财年，前一年设计的项目开始建设。 在2015财年，在设计细胞调节和代谢项目以及物理生物学项目中的一些实验室时，已经开始对之前的项目采取行动。2021财年将是这些实验室以及发育内分泌学计划内的实验室的最终建设和搬迁。 仍将有翻新和可能的移动，但没有这么大的努力已经。 具有共同研究兴趣的科学家的亲和小组将补充实验室的物理接近性。 这些设施将使AG能够促进科学交流，合作和组建新的多学科团队，以流畅和动态的方式解决新的研究思路。

The Office of the Scientific Director (OSD) launched a multi-year initiative in FY12 to consolidate the highly dispersed research programs of the Division of Intramural Research (DIR), NICHD. Over 70 distinct laboratories and research cores in the DIR were distributed across seven buildings, which proved to be a barrier to creating the kind of interdisciplinary and team-based research environment, both in basic and clinical research groups, that is needed in a contemporary biomedical research setting. Through the recommendations of a Blue Ribbon Panel, commissioned by the NIH and NICHD leadership, which reported to the DIR in summer 2013, the DIR was supported in its efforts to consolidate space. As a result, and through careful planning with the Office of Research Facilities (ORF), NIH leadership, and administrative and scientific staff of the DIR, a plan was developed and funds were set aside to move, in succession, to a smaller number of building clusters. Completion of all moves is projected for FY21. Laboratories with common intellectual and scientific interests were reorganized and will be co-located in six building clusters on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Space and facilities planning leaders have consulted with investigators to optimize research space and achieve renovations necessary to modernize our research laboratories. The co-location of research cores and the opportunity to share resources and costly equipment were critical factors, including sharing with other NIH institutes, which is in accordance with outcomes of NIH long-term planning for the Intramural Research Program. Among the other stimuli for the consolidation of space and relocation of investigators are the planned demolition of two aging facilities that are slated for demolition by ORF, buildings 18/32 and 9. These buildings have been slated for demolition for several years. All of these circumstances have combined with the new strategic plan and organizational restructuring achieved since summer 2013, and approved to go into effect in on October 1, 2015. New laboratory clusters will be led by an Associate Scientific Director (ASD) for each functional area of scientific expertise, who will oversee space and facility needs and resource management for their group of integrated laboratories and investigative staff. The initial space moves began in FY12 with the new Porter Neurosciences Complex, phase II, where a core group of cell and structural biology and neurosciences labs, along with imaging cores, will be housed. Designs also began in FY12 for some of the labs in the Program in Physical Biology for pending moves to Bldg. 10. In FY13, design began for the Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Molecular Medicine Program, and some of the labs in the Program in Developmental Neuroscience. In FY14, construction began for the programs designed the previous year. In FY15, moves have begun for the previous programs while design for some of the labs in the Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism and Program in Physical Biology. FY21 will be the final construction and moves for these labs as well as the labs within the Program in Developmental Endocrinology. There will still be renovations and possible moves but not as large as this effort has been. Complementing the physical proximity of laboratories will be affinity groups (AG) of scientists with shared research interests. The facilities will allow for AGs to promote scientific exchange, collaborations, and the formation of new multidisciplinary teams to address new research ideas in a fluid and dynamic manner.