Cost-effective operational, security, and material movement solutions for Select Agent research

If you don’t get these details right before you start to build or renovate, you will either over-build (or over-renovate), incur higher operating costs than you’re planning for, or both. Here, Gus Battles details cost-effective design and operational solutions for Select Agent program compliance in a recent 10,000-sf ABSL-3 renovation of University of Florida’s Communicore building. He documents how the competing goals of security and streamlined operations were reconciled through program and facility features, and he details cost-effective solutions for containment, security, ease of investigator access, cross-contamination prevention, and the avoidance of costly future retrofits.

Leader:

• August H. Battles, DVM -- Director, Animal Resources Center, University of Florida