The capstone of City University of New York's "Decade of Science" effort, Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) which opened in 2014, continues to undergo alterations as directors of the five disciplines being housed there – nanotechnology, neuroscience, structural biology, environmental sensing and photonics – are hired.
Flexibility was particularly critical in the design of the ASRC, given that the entire organization at the time that programming began consisted of one person. The labs would have to be conceived as somewhat generic spaces that could be fine-tuned once each new director was named by the university. Flad, the project's architect of record and lab planner, knew the science but not the scientists, a circumstance that has gradually changed since CUNY began occupying the building three years ago.
Flad enjoys an ongoing relationship with CUNY, as well as a series of new contracts with the institution that delineate consultation and construction administration services moving forward.
City University of New York 
Advanced Science Research Center
July 01, 2017