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The Tradeline BLOG is an online exchange of quick bits of breaking information, intelligent “briefs”, promising technologies, emerging trends, HOT concepts “overheard” at Tradeline conferences, and some rare, practical stats that will help you keep tuned to the capital projects and facility management profession.
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Can your casework take the weight?
Casework is being subjected to ever-increasing weight loads with lab equipment stacking. This makes weight-load-bearing specifications a purchasing criterion.
- From: Tradeline's Research Buildings 2005 Conference
Casework Defined....
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Examples in Planning Strategy
The term "loose fit" was used two ways in connection with planning strategy at Tradeline's Research Buildings 2005 Conference. Stanford Clark Center's overhead hooks and rails utility grid; and GlaxoSmithKline's big box lab floors built out completely wit...
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Higher Occupant Density is Possible
It was asserted at Tradeline's Research Buildings 2005 Conference that open-plan labs can yield higher occupancy density, meaning higher utilization of capital funds. ...
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Making your investment work.
To make a cogeneration investment work, you have to have a use for the heat by-product (rejected heat), and this involves making critical calculations correctly.
- From Tradeline's Research Buildings 2005 Conference
What is cogeneration? ...
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A planning tip.
By eliminating doors wherever possible you free up the space behind the door for productive use. ...
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A key to interaction.
When people are serious about creating community spaces, terms like "cafés", "Starbucks coffee", "deli", and "food courts" come up.
- From Tradeline's Research Buildings 2005 Conference ...
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Planning for Open Environments
Where walls are required in lab areas, there are a growing number of examples of using glass walls to further the open-environment feel. ...
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Diversification of Research Facilities
At Tradeline's Research Buildings 2005 Conference, it was asserted that there are no main trends in research buildings, in fact, there is a growing variability of building types due to growing diversity of building drivers connected to science themes, tea...
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The meaning of "program" as applied to strategic facilities planning.
The term "program" when applied to strategic facilities planning refers to the entire space portfolio, not just a building -- i.e. the total business mission and assets to support that mission....
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Foundational Elements and Biggest Impact
The foundational elements of credible strategic facilities planning is a quality database, and an internal business-unit champion. The biggest impact of strategic facilities planning will be realized in reducing capital expenditures.
What is strategic f...
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Cut energy costs by up to fifty percent.
Hard data findings presented at Tradeline's Research Buildings 2005 Conference indicated that variable air volume systems for labs can cut energy costs by 50% over constant volume systems. Energy use reduction is being achieved for lab buildings with heat...
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Ideas for Utility Distribution & Capacity
Lab flexibility decisions always come down eventually to HVAC capacity and distribution. A key flexibility idea is separate the ceiling utility distribution system from what goes on at the lab floor level. A new idea being implemented in some laboratories...
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Lab bench usage is changing.
Lab benches are becoming platforms for equipment with less need for people workstations. This has implications for product specifications and acquisition.
- From: Tradeline's Research Buildings 2005 Conference...
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Crucial for Biocontainment Projects
Sealant failure is one of the top causes of containment barrier failure. Spend time to pick products that work, and don' make this a victim of value engineering. If you have a really industrial-grade wall sealing problem, consider 90-mil thick flexible co...
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Determining Requirements
If you are working to integrate BSL space into multi-functional buildings, it is critical to get the researchers to nail down procedures and infectivity levels. For example, you may find that you don't need BSL-3 at all, and this may save you space and co...
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Construction and Maintenance Estimates
BSL spaces typically come in small modules, but the cost per square foot is high -- $300 to $600/sf, and up to $800/sf if you have a liquid decontamination system involved. Maintenance and operating costs, including energy cost, for biocontainment facilit...
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Building the Right Team.
Get people on your design and construction team who have worked together before on BSL-3 projects. Don't start any BSL facility design work without the involvement of your bio-safety officer. This will save you money and avoid mistakes. There is also a pr...
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Options and New Technologies
If funding for BSL-3 facilities is hard to find, but funding for equipment is available, look at self-contained modular labs as equipment. On the issue of imaging equipment in BSL-containment space, NIH is working with instrument vendors on new instrument...
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Leading-Egde Technology.
There is now a new dime-sized device that detects the presence of pathogens in 20 seconds. Put it on air intakes, exhausts, and effluent waste lines.
More on new detection technologies....
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Recommendations
Here's a detail on drywall partitions in BSL spaces -- use impact resistant gypsum wallboard and use 6-inch (not 12-inch) drywall screw spacing. This avoids seam failure in fan-failure tests....
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When Does a Government Agency Inspect Your Facility?
Want your facility inspected by USDA or CDC? That happens only when you request an import permit for a Select Agent. It was reported that the time between request and inspection may be up to 250 days.
- From Tradeline's 2005 International Conference on ...
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M&O for Biocontainment Spaces
Instead of getting clearances for maintenance and operations people for access to BSL facilities, implement a policy of providing escorts for M&O people working in biocontainment spaces.
- From Tradeline's 2005 International Conference on Biocontain...
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