Visioning Your Animal Facility Floorplans and Systems

What decisions need to be made first?

Published November 2006 The first step: choose the right cage and rack system.

The first two steps in thinking about room sizes and HVAC configurations, decide on your cage and rack system, and the aisle widths you need for safe, efficient operations. Higher cage density solutions create the need for more space for people traffic, rack traffic, bigger cage wash, more material flow, more staging and storage space – it is a complicated calculation.

- From Tradeline’s Animal Research Facilities 2006 Conference

Learn about cage density metrics.