STF-1: Commissioning of biocontainment facilities -- lessons learned & success strategies

For successful biocontainment facility projects (new construction or renovations) plan from the outset around the final commissioning challenges you’re likely to face. Here, session leaders use case studies from the CDC, NIH, and the Canadian Science Center to detail hands-on commissioning lessons-learned for biocontainment laboratories illustrating key commissioning pitfalls to avoid. hey highlight problematical and critical components to be commissioned; profile commissioning tests, metrics, and protocols; illustrate representative costs; examine the kinds of problems commissioning uncovers; and prescribe how those problems can be addressed both in design and, if necessary, after the fact.

Hemisphere Engineering US, Inc.

Leaders:

• Cory Ziegler, PE -- Principal, Hemisphere Engineering US, Inc.
• Joby Evans -- Principal, Hemisphere Engineering US, Inc.
• Lee H. Thompson -- Biocontainment Specialist Consultant, Hemisphere Engineering US, Inc.