BSL-2, BSL-3, BSL-3Ag, ABSL-3
Design * Construction * Operation

How to get biocontainment facilities projects built quickly for the lowest possible cost, meet multiple certification and validation criteria, and avoid start-up delays and unexpected costs?  This conference answers that question by examining details of the new planning models, design solutions, and success strategies for these crucial biocontainment issues:

New developments on the horizon:  Emerging biocontainment technologies and international certification standards may change your current project plans.  Plan for it.  Learn here the substance and impact of these new developments.

Biocontainment for animals:  This can be a costly and problematic aspect of your facility plans.  Plan for it. Find out here the cost-effective vivarium solutions for ABSL-3 and BSL-3Ag operations.

Certification, validation, and commissioning: This aspect of biocontainment poses a big area of risk for project time-lines and costs.  Plan for it. Learn here how to take control of these processes. 

Design and construction details: Details are the make-or-break factor in biocontainment facilities projects.  Plan for it. Learn here the right and wrong decisions on key facilities details. 

Operations and maintenance:  This is an overlooked feature of many biocontainment facilities projects with big downstream cost impacts.  Plan for it.  Learn here the key project decisions for low-cost operations and maintenance. 

Construction and operating costs: Cost under-estimation (construction and operating) is a common biocontainment pitfall.  Plan for it. Learn here what your cost numbers should be, and where and how they can be reduced.

Space conversions and upgrades: These are costly, logistically complex, and can have big total-building systems impacts.  Plan for it. Learn here the cost-effective, fast, successful retrofit solutions.

Details on newly emerging lab types:  New biodefense and health-related programs are forging new plans for bioaerosol labs, bird flu research facilities, potent drug development labs, and more.  Plan for it. Learn the details here.

Biocontainment construction and operating problems to avoid:  There is growing body of information on poor construction outcomes and improper operating protocols. Plan for it. Learn here what those findings are.   

Make the Biocontainment Facilities 2006 meeting a central part of your team’s planning (project, operations, and scientific people) for cost-effective, on-time, safe, functionally-correct biocontainment facility outcomes. 

Steven L. Westfall, PhD
President
Tradeline, Inc.

Special Conference Feature:  We invite you to participate in a survey and working group on biocontainment facility operating costs. Participants will contribute to a comprehensive survey instrument that will collect and assimilate biocontainment facility operating and maintenance costs. Results of the pooled data will be distributed to all institutions that participate in the cost study, and reviewed during Special Technology Forum 2 (STF-2).  Please email bill@tradelineinc.com for further information on particpating.

Click here for a list of past attendees to Tradeline's Biocontainment conferences.

Who should attend this conference?

This conference has been designed and produced for capital project managers, group leaders, research department heads, operating staff, facility managers, biosafety officers, EH&S personnel, researchers, and financial officers who work for research-based institutions that own and occupy their own buildings.

In order to maximize your conference experience, Tradeline's unique attendance policy limits attendance by representatives of firms that provide management consulting, design, construction, contract services or products to this audience to those who are making presentations or exhibiting at this conference.