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New Haven, CT, United States
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Quantum Optics Laboratory
New Haven, CT, United States
PICKING UP GOOD VIBRATIONS - The Jack Harris Lab is a multi-level laboratory with ancillary spaces. Inside it, scientists study the quantum aspects of motion through cryogenic and room-temperature opto-mechanical experiments.
To ensure they do it well and properly — which means, among other things, measuring only the vibrations registered by an exceedingly weak light force exerted on small mirrors — CWA created an environment that guarantees extraordinary acoustical separation, vibration isolation, and thermal stability. This, while housing some very sophisticated, expensive and unwieldy equipment.
Complicating matters was that fact that the allocated space for the lab, which surrounds a concrete shell, sits at the juncture of three different building additions. The trick was to integrate the shell into the overall design while decoupling each perimeter wall individually. A hierarchy of acoustical separation techniques effectively isolates the entire lab from the rest of the building, the internal labs from each other and the two-story refrigerator chamber which contain the functional specimens, from the labs.
“Working with CWA was an incredibly positive experience. [Project Manager] Joe Chadwick absorbed a huge number of potentially conflicting requirements, and found a way to accommodate them all in the very challenging site. I consider the lab design and construction to be a huge success, and I credit CWA with pulling it off. I couldn’t be happier with the lab space, in terms of both function and aesthetics.”
Jack Harris, Principal Investigator
To ensure they do it well and properly — which means, among other things, measuring only the vibrations registered by an exceedingly weak light force exerted on small mirrors — CWA created an environment that guarantees extraordinary acoustical separation, vibration isolation, and thermal stability. This, while housing some very sophisticated, expensive and unwieldy equipment.
Complicating matters was that fact that the allocated space for the lab, which surrounds a concrete shell, sits at the juncture of three different building additions. The trick was to integrate the shell into the overall design while decoupling each perimeter wall individually. A hierarchy of acoustical separation techniques effectively isolates the entire lab from the rest of the building, the internal labs from each other and the two-story refrigerator chamber which contain the functional specimens, from the labs.
“Working with CWA was an incredibly positive experience. [Project Manager] Joe Chadwick absorbed a huge number of potentially conflicting requirements, and found a way to accommodate them all in the very challenging site. I consider the lab design and construction to be a huge success, and I credit CWA with pulling it off. I couldn’t be happier with the lab space, in terms of both function and aesthetics.”
Jack Harris, Principal Investigator
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