Laboratory Design, Construction, and Renovation: Participants, Process, and Product

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Summary: A bureaucratic approach to laboratory design
Review: As always, the title of a book does not tell us its true content and scope. In this case the title and the content match, but in a very bureaucratic way. The ideas are carefully worded, but all the design challenge and the exemplification through images are gone. There is not a single image or exemplification diagram inside the book. It is an excellent INTRODUCTION to the design activities and concepts for a general-but-somewhat-specialized architectural task, but it is simply bothersome to professionals with a harsh need of an updated guidance in the technological and normative issues involved in that kind of interdisciplinary work. Had the book included the word "Introduction" my personal sense of deception was not so assured and asserted. If you want an introduction to that field before more deep technical literature, this book is really worth of each dollar you pay for it.