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Dr. Rietz attended Cornell University where he received a Bachelor
of Arts degree in chemistry. He completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University in the fields of physical and inorganic chemistry
and did postdoctoral research at UCLA and the University of California at Berkeley. His technical publications are in the
areas of synthetic inorganic chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, and X-ray crystallography.
Dr. Rietz has 15 years experience as a lead scientist (principal investigator) and manager directing R&D technical
programs. He has been a program and group manager at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (University of California at Berkeley),
Atlantic Richfield Company, Rockwell International, and Raychem Corporation.
He has 20 years of owner experience managing renovations and upgrades of laboratories, which includes designing and building
customized analytical, chemical, and radioisotope laboratories and managing the programming and renovation of entire laboratory
buildings.
Dr. Rietz continually investigates recent laboratory projects and visits owners to research what makes certain owners
and particular projects succeed. In the past 28 years, he has interviewed more than 300 owners and toured over 400 recent
laboratory buildings in this effort.
For the past 25 years, Dr. Rietz has been in private practice, consulting to corporate and academic owners (1) wishing
to evaluate the suitability of their current lab facilities to their R&D programs, (2) planning new laboratory buildings,
or (3) wanting specialized help in identifying the facility options available to them. His clients include large universities
and leading companies in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, biotechnology, and aerospace.
Dr. Rietz offers Strategic Planning experience for unusual situations: projects difficult to define because the staff
has not yet been hired, programming for new or emerging technologies, or reallocation of existing capital resources. He
also helps owners that want to break away from traditional approaches, to obtain designs that derive from the science rather
than from architecture per se, or to try a new method for delivering projects.
Dr. Rietz prepares custom Program of Requirement workbooks. He has programmed over 4,500,000 GSF of lab and/or pilot
plant space.
Recently, Dr. Rietz has been offering Laboratory Utilization Studies for owners of technical buildings. This is a powerful
new tool for optimizing the use of existing space and justifying new space when and if necessary.
Dr. Rietz often speaks at major conferences on the planning, design, use, and future direction of laboratories. He has
toaught the leadoff session at the University of Wisconsin course on lab design and has frequently been the keynote speaker
at the national Tradeline conferences on high-tech, R&D, and biotechnology facilities. He is often called upon to give
in-house courses for owners about to embark on laboratory projects.
Dr. Rietz has often served as a member of the Research & Development Magazine jury for the annual Laboratory-of-the-Year
competition.
Dr. Rietz is a member of the American Chemical Society, the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers, and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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