Forum D: Successfully integrating BSL facilities into multi-functional buildings

Most biocontainment facility projects (new construction or renovations) involve either incorporating a floor or a suite of biocontainment space into a multi-function building. For either, this involves critical decision-making on numerous and potentially costly systems, construction, security, and safety issues. Here, session leaders examine two different approaches to BSL space in multi-function research buildings – the University of Pittsburgh’s RBL floor re-design, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s BSL suite on a non-BSL floor. Their findings reveal cost-effective solutions to protecting the surrounding environments, security access control, HVAC isolation and access, waste handling, and system maintenance.

Payette

BR+A Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Leaders:

• George E. Marsh, Jr., AIA -- Principal, Payette
• Jeffrey R. Znyda -- Associate, Payette
• Stephen B. Carroll, LEED, AP -- Associate Principal, BR+A Consulting Engineers, Inc.