Woods Bagot - R+D e-newsletter

Issue #1, July 2008

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

John Maynard Keynes quoted in: K. Eric Drexler Engines of Creation: the Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Bantam, New York,

project DI
	Curtin Resources and Chemistry Precinct Curtin University of Technology (Western Australia) in partnership with the Chemistry Centre (WA) and BHP Billiton have invested AUS$100 million in a new facility to house staff from Curtin’s Department of Applied Chemistry and the Chemistry Centre (WA). Woods Bagot was commissioned to design the facility which is now well into the construction phase and due for completion in 2009. Design Intelligence Document.
PUBLIC DI
	Clustering Frenzy A Woods Bagot PUBLIC research paper by Mark Kelly and Hsuhan Chiang. Biotechnology clustering is now a prevalent feature in the Asia Pacific region, proving that investors were right in predicting that the initiative would bring economic growth to those countries involved.
cool stuff
	Ray Kurzweil: How technology's accelerating power will transform us Prolific inventor and outrageous visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why -- by the 2020s -- we will have reverse-engineered the human brain, and nanobots will be operating your consciousness. Podcast.
	Whole Building Design Guide: Trends in Lab Design A new model of laboratory design is emerging, one that creates lab environments that are responsive to present needs and capable of accommodating future demands. WBGD website article.