During our beamrun I helped out on a BES proposal for a large new facility at Argonne with labspace for a ~200 scientists and officespace for an additional ~200 staff people. Based on a little pencil sketch provided by one of my collaborators, I made a 3D model that’s become its concept design.

cute, huh? there’s a large common area in the middle with three branches of labs coming out from the middle. I doubt they’ll keep my garish red floors, but one can dream. Apparently the higher-ups liked it and it got sent out. I forgot about it until our division director mentioned it in a big meeting today. It was kind of fun to be messing around in solidworks for the first time in a long while.

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December 1, 2007 at 11:51 am
Barbara
wow, that’s neat. So where’s the library? Will it have nice windows? Cool that it has taken on a life of its own.
December 2, 2007 at 8:52 am
timfoolery
I’m afraid most scientists now buy their own books and rely on the web for their papers. Argonne has a really sad library system I’m afraid..I’m still using my UW account which I’m hoping they forgot to turn off.