This conference is the annual meeting for research veterinarians, capital project teams, project managers, engineering managers, animal facility operations managers, space planners, animal facility & vivarium managers, biosafety officers, and research program directors to benchmark their new management initiatives or animal facility construction programs for their institutions.

The agenda is now online.
For a printable copy of the conference program (1 MB pdf) click here.

The universal challenge facing animal research programs worldwide is the pressing need to get more capacity and meet new regulatory and certification requirements against a backdrop of restricted capital availability, the need to lower operating costs, and a ramping-up of sustainability objectives.

At this conference you’ll get the details on new capital, operating, and facility models that are solving this challenge – models that are delivering:
• A high-return on capital investment
• Efficient, lower-cost operations
• Flexibility for changing research programs
• Higher space utilization
• Sustainable operations & reduced energy use
• Successful certification & regulatory compliance

Here you’ll get the numbers, rationales, and results of innovative facility solutions for renovation and expansion projects, automation investments, efficient space allocation models, energy and water reduction initiatives, and staff productivity improvements that are meeting (and being integrated with) overall institutional growth and business-model criteria. You’ll learn about new decisions that are being made on everything from animal holding and housing, procedure space, imaging, biocontainment, barrier space, cage washing and processing, HVAC concepts and controls, lighting, waste handling, surfaces and materials, lab furniture, and operational logistics.

You’ll also be able to evaluate firsthand the latest cost-cutting, quality-improving, efficiency-raising vendor offerings, which are on display at this conference. These are new technology offerings for animal housing, automation equipment, air handling systems and controls, waste processing, surfaces and materials, specialty furniture, decontamination methods, and more.