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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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A planning recommendation.
Many animal vets and research administrators are increasingly of the view that planning for multi-species is a necessity because of the uncertainty of research futures and the high costs of retrofit and disruption. This impacts decisions on module sizes &...
| | 11.23.06
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What are the communication needs of large animal laboratories?
Large animal facilities are extremely compartmentalized, making the emergency communication systems a very important part of the facility program – broadcast-building-wide speaker system, CCTV, room-to-room telecom.
- From Tradeline’s Animal ...
| | 11.21.06
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Robotics, sensors, and security.
We are now seeing the 6th generation of robotic systems, and they work quite well. When installing automated water delivery systems, orient wall-mounted pipe T-connectors as flat against the wall as possible to avoid T-connectors being broken off dur...
| | 11.20.06
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Commissioning and Testing
For commissioning, do factory acceptance testing of key equipment AND involve the commissioning agent in that process.
- From Tradeline’s Animal Research Facilities 2006 Conference
What is commissioning?
Learn about the commissioning and validat...
| | 11.17.06
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What decisions need to be made first?
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, r...
| | 11.15.06
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Financial strategies for successful project.
Do not base project budgets on cost studies done 2-3 years before construction – do real-time cost modeling. If value-engineering decision-making is left to people who have not worked in a vivarium, or who will have nothing to do with the facility w...
| | 11.14.06
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Steps to take in the planning phase.
In putting together your animal or research facility project team, it is not enough to select the team – also create a formal team organization chart naming names and relationships. For your contractor workers and tradespeople, you will get better a...
| | 11.13.06
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A key component of your research facility.
A science building trend to plan for is: lower fume hood counts in buildings; lower sink counts in buildings; fewer wet benches. What is taking the place of those features is more space for informatics and computational science. Additionally, a common pla...
| | 11.9.06
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Plan for new technology.
Another emerging technology development: In lecture halls in the near future, LCD video projectors will be replaced with high definition TV (HDTV). This will change some of the design details for lecture halls.
- From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildin...
| | 11.7.06
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A new model for space organization.
Given the large number and diversity of new fields of science, rather than building labs for biology or chemistry, a better idea is to have three general lab types – 1) LOW fumehood intensity labs, 2) MEDIUM fumehood intensity labs, and 3) HIGH fume...
| | 11.6.06
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Flexibility and Energy Savings
An under-floor plenum system (not access floor) for air distribution is an expensive approach to flooring, but it saves on air handling fan sizes, energy costs, and presumably fan life; and reduces HVAC noise due to lower pressure drop with this approac...
| | 11.5.06
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A tool for keeping your facility aligned with organizational goals.
Have people who are planning to move into a new science building sign a memo of understanding as to what is expected of them. This will eliminate (or at least minimize) down-the-road building-occupant behavior that is contrary to the philosophy and intent...
| | 11.3.06
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The science building of the future.
The collaboration of people from multiple disciplines is now an absolute necessity to do any kind of relevant science. Multi-disciplinary collaboration is no longer a buzzword – it is a reality to plan for. A key feature of interdisciplinary collabo...
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