2023 ASHRAE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS 2023 ASHRAE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS FIRST PLACE CASE STUDY HONORABLE MENTION CASE STUDY HONORABLE MENTION FLEXIBILITY, SAFETY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY BY BLAIR HAWN, P.E., MEMBER ASHRAE; BRANDON FORTIER, P.E. A 30 s the final segment of Argonne National Laboratory's Energy Quad, the new Materials Design Laboratory (MDL) southwest of Chicago is a state-of-the-art collaborative research facility for energy and materials scientists to investigate structures at the scale of a single electron and larger. The 120,000 ft2 (11 148 m2) building was designed to house approximately 100 researchers and support staff and provide maximum practical flexibility to adapt to evolving research processes and support changes in this field for the next 10 to 20 years. ASHRAE JOURNAL ashrae.o rg J U N E 2023 MARK HERBOTH PHOTOGRAPHY LLChttp://ashrae.org