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• All building renovation or construction, and especially laboratory renovation or construction, involves many issues that must be resolved and many decisions that must be made. Although it is possible to delegate these tasks to the design professional, the active participation of an informed client in the resolution of these issues and in related decision making greatly enhances the probability that a superior result will be obtained.
• Some of the details and issues, such as those dictated by environmental health and safety (EH&S) regulations, are highly specialized and should be left to the experts. Others, such as design alternatives or considerations affecting construction costs, need to be reviewed, discussed, and resolved jointly by members of the client group—such as the client team and user representative—and the design professional. The client team and the user representative should therefore be familiar with these issues so that they are able to make informed decisions. Although an experienced design professional can usually be relied on to inform the client of all possible design alternatives

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• All building renovation or construction, and especially laboratory renovation or construction, involves many issues that must be resolved and many decisions that must be made. Although it is possible to delegate these tasks to the design professional, the active participation of an informed client in the resolution of these issues and in related decision making greatly enhances the probability that a superior result will be obtained.
• Some of the details and issues, such as those dictated by environmental health and safety (EH&S) regulations, are highly specialized and should be left to the experts. Others, such as design alternatives or considerations affecting construction costs, need to be reviewed, discussed, and resolved jointly by members of the client group—such as the client team and user representative—and the design professional. The client team and the user representative should therefore be familiar with these issues so that they are able to make informed decisions. Although an experienced design professional can usually be relied on to inform the client of all possible design alternatives