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Federal campuses, laboratories, installations, and mission-critical sites are managing complex inventories of aging, energy-intensive facilities nationwide.

Join Flad and Idaho National Laboratory at the I2SL Annual Conference, where they will share a case study that transforms lab space utilization assessments into a forward-looking capital planning model. Through I2SL's Lab Benchmarking Tool (LBT) and Actionable Insights and Measures (AIM) Report software tool, the team integrated 15 years of research space utilization data with historic energy performance and peer benchmarking, creating a comprehensive plan that links research activity, infrastructure condition, and energy consumption.

The resulting strategy prioritizes investments to promote safety and human wellness, enable scientific discovery, optimize energy use, and reduce associated costs. Speakers will explore how the team developed a model to support predictive analysis through data-driven decision-making. Aligning space utilization, physical condition, and laboratory space suitability data with benchmarked energy performance, the framework targets projects that measurably improve operational efficiency, reduce energy consumption and costs, extend asset life, and promote high-performance laboratory environments. Attendees will learn practical approaches for translating assessment and energy usage data into defensible implementation strategies. Speakers will discuss how these strategies can guide renewal, adaptive reuse, retirement, consolidation, and acquisition decisions across federal laboratory portfolios.

About I2SL Annual Conference > The I2SL Annual Conference and Technology Fair is the world's leading international conference focused on energy efficiency, decarbonization, and sustainability in laboratories and other high-tech facilities. Attendees include lab owners, operators, designers, engineers, managers, builders, and developers.