RDG Out & About: Tradeline Facility Renovations & Repurposing Conference 2026
RDG Architects Jenna Reichberg and Joe Lang share how thoughtful collaboration and creative adaptive reuse can transform a historic urban building into a forward-looking health sciences campus that supports evolving academic, accreditation and program needs.
Event Details
Date: Friday, October 15, 2026, 8:05 - 9:00 a.m.
Location: Renaissance Boston Seaport District, 606 Congress Street, Boston, MA
Navigating Unique Project and Program Demands to Enable Creative Repurposing
Successful adaptive reuse aligns mission, academic vision, real estate strategy, regulatory requirements, and project delivery from day one. The Chicago School evaluated more than 100 sites before selecting a historic urban building whose character, daylight, and context offered both opportunity and constraint for a forward-looking integrated health sciences campus.
Session leaders demonstrate the navigation of project and accreditation requirements for the Illinois College of Osteopathic Medicine, including simulation- and collaboration-driven pedagogies and curriculum-driven space utilization analyses. They illustrate solutions that reconcile historic building realities with the demands of simulation centers, standardized patient labs, and advanced teaching environments through tight collaboration among owner, architect, contractor, faculty, students, and specialty consultants.
Speakers
Jenna Reichberg, AIA
RDG Planning & Design
Joe Lang, AIA
Principal
RDG Planning & Design