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Most planners know the
experience of having miles of cable running through ceilings that is of
no use because they don't know were it is going. One method of avoiding
this problem is to have all cable originating in a dedicated room.
Cables terminate ...
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See Computer-Aided Design. ...
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See Computer-Aided Design and Drafting. ...
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See Computer-Aided Facilities Management. ...
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In the animal care industry, it is a frequent requirement that the animals be disease-free. To maintain this status, it is necessary that the animals never be exposed to contaminated air. Therefore, it is necessary to move them from a soiled cage to a c...
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In the animal care industry, laboratory animals are usually housed in cages. A cagewasher is a large, stainless steel machine that washes these cages. Usually a pass-through design, outfitted with a washing chemical(acid and alkaline)injection system(as...
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The process of adjusting an instrument or compiling a deviation chart so that its reading can be correlated to the actual value being measured.
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The unit of heat as a measurement of energy. The amount of heat necessary to increase the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius....
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See Computer-Aided Manufacturing. ...
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A lease transaction that is
financially reported by the lessee in the same manner as if the asset
acquisition had been purchased and paid for with borrowed funds. In a
capital lease the liability and the asset are both recognized on the
lessee's balan...
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An add-on control device that uses
activated carbon to absorb volatile organic compounds from a gas stream.
(The VOCs are later recovered from the carbon.)...
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A treatment system that removes
contaminants from ground water or surface water by forcing it through
tanks containing activated carbon treated to attract the contaminants....
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Very small particles of carbon that
may wash out of an activated carbon filter in a water purification
system....
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An agent capable of causing cancer....
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A container that is prepackaged with
filtering components for a water purification system. The module design
of filter cartridges makes it easier to change used filters. ...
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Cabinets, shelving, laboratory benches....
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Concrete which is poured and left to harden in its permanent location, also called cast-in-situ concrete and in-situ concrete. See also Pre-Cast Concrete.
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See Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research. ...
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A telecommunication switchboard that switches
or exchanges data and voice signals. (PBX refers to phone or voice
switches only.)...
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See Center for Devices and Radiological Health. ...
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Cell force monitors have been designed to measure the loads at which cells contract a biomaterial scaffold to which they are attached. One common biomaterial scaffold is "artificial skin" into which new skin cells migrate and regenerate tissue.
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A single-level in floor
distribution system for power, lighting, electronic and communications
systems that is either embedded in the concrete or included as part of
the structural load-carrying floor member of the building. Two- or
three-celled metal...
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A lightweight fill material used
to improve the impact load resistance, rolling load capacity and
acoustical properties of access floor panels....
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The
branch of the FDA that regulates drugs and biological products....
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The
branch of the FDA that regulates public health and safety aspects of
medical devices and radiation emissions from electronic products....
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The major components of a computer system with the circuitry to control the interpretation and execution of instructions. (Webster's New World Dictionary of Computer Terms 5E © 1994 Simon & Schuster Inc.)...
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A service offered by local telephone
companies in which computerized telephone switching equipment is owned,
operated and maintained by the phone company and is located on its
premises....
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A machine which produces
chiller water typically for facility air conditioning. A centrifugal
chiller utilizes a rotating turbine to generate the compression within
the refrigeration cycle....
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A fan contained in a scroll-shaped
housing. Air flows radially into and out of the fan through the impeller
(the rotating element of the fan). Centrifugal fans are used for both
general and fume hood exhaust....
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A machine, often used in laboratories, that separates the lighter and heavier parts of a mixture by the use of centrifugal force. ...
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Certified Engineering Operations Executive...
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See Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act....
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See Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act Information System. ...
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A document issued by a governmental authority certifying that all or a designated portion of a building complies with the provisions of applicable statutes and regulations, permitting occupancy for its designated use. When renovation of a facility—o...
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The Certified Facility Manager (CFM) credential sets the industry standard for ensuring the knowledge and abilities of practicing facility managers. The CFM Exam is competency-based, testing what a person can do compared to standards that define the pract...
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See Computational Fluid Dynamics....
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A form of paint degradation in weather
resulting in loose, powdery pigment on the painted surface....
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A bevel; the angle made where one surface joins another surface (excluding a right angle)....
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Written authorization given by a
building owner or the owner's agent to a contractor to change the scope
of work, design or materials used or equipment to be installed. One way
to reduce change orders in a new construction project is to delay
interior...
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A room used to put on and take off protective clothing....
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In construction contract
terminology, these are changes ordered by the owner consisting of
additions, deletions or other revisions within the general scope of the
contract. The contract sum and the contract time are adjusted
accordingly. All changes i...
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A three-sided, U-shaped member in a sash or frame to receive a glass or panel insert. Also used to describe the path for transmission between two or more sources of voice or data in a multipoint session....
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A nanotechnology facility in which scientists measure and determine the properties of their work. This suite is isolated from the rest of the structure with its own walls, foundation, and electrical and mechanical systems. Characterization suites feature ...
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An integrated circuit used as the foundation for digital photography. Essentially, an extremely light-sensitive camera. CCD tools monitor cell metabolism in living tissue by recording the light emissions of a fluorescent chemical.
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Refers to the practice of the Facilities Management function charging other divisions for services provided.
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An intensive group work session or meeting
for a group task. After char (work) and -ette (small), the term
reportedly comes from French schools of architecture where student teams
are required to produce architectural models as a major school project.
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Breaks or cracks in the film of a coating that may or may not penetrate to the underlying surface. See also Alligatoring, Cracking, and Crazing....
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Facilities planners should set up
checkpoints during the life of a project. It is impossible for planners
to know ahead of time what the business environment will be when the
project is finished. Built-in milestones help planners peg progress and
prev...
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Low Risk (CSL-1): Any chemical risk is usually managed by restricting usage of hazardous chemicals. Typically instrument labs and equipment labs do not use hazardous chemicals openly but rather in sealed vials or containers for use inside various analytic...
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A health problem
characterized by symptoms such as dizziness, chest tightness, eye and
throat irritation and nasal congestion when an individual is exposed to
even trace amounts of certain chemicals they are sensitized to....
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A seperate area for the storage of hazardous chemicals. For safety reasons, large quantities of such chemicals can no longer be stored in laboratories or vivariums....
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CVD is used to grow a thin layer of advanced materials on the surface of a substrate. A non-volatile solid film on a substrate by the reaction of vapor-phase chemicals that contain the required constituents. The reactant gases are introduced into a reacti...
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A full-time, executive-level professional devoted to security; this person has IT and investigative background.
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A small footprint semiconductor package generally with terminals on all four sides. The package may be manufactured by cofired ceramic or multilayer printed circuit board technologies.
...
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CIO2 A synthetic yellowish-green gas that is made stable in an aqueous solution and used in water purification, sanitation applications, and in the paper and pulp industry.
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The analysis of a solution or mixture by using an adsorptive substance. As the mixture or solution flows over this substance (for example a strip of paper) the parts of the substance are separated out and can be identified. They often have a color that he...
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The amount of change in a given facility
or organization due to personnel relocation. Churn rate can either be
calculated as the amount of floor space changed per year expressed as a
percentage of the total amount of floor space, or the number of
pers...
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Chilled water....
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See Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness Program. ...
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See Computer Integrated Manufacturing....
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The natural body rhythms of wake and sleep, eating behavior, biochemical levels, body temperature, and other bodily functions which repeat during a 24-hour period....
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The exterior skin of a building. Examples
are glass curtain walls, metal panels or precast cladding of various
types....
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An insurance policy that covers
only those claims that occur and are reported during the policy's stated
period and subsequent renewal periods. ...
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Measures of air purity for
cleanrooms. See Cleanrooms....
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A system of using two
different sets of corridors to separate contaminated staff and supplies
from clean staff and supplies. Used in both hospital operating suites
and animal facilities....
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Specially constructed, mechanically intensive areas or structures with strict environmental controls for airborne particles, temperature, humidity, air motion, etc.
Although initially used in the aerospace industry, cleanrooms are now used in many field...
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A high window in an exterior or interior wall of a building located at or near the eaves or ceiling designed to admit increased light into the inner space of the building.
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In the pharmaceutical industry,
product testing using human subjects to demonstrate product efficacy.
Informed consent and protection of human rights are prerequisites....
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A heating or cooling system
where the refrigerant is enclosed in a piping system that is not vented
to the atmosphere. (Uniform Solar Energy Code)...
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See also Construction Management/Construction Manager...
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Computerized Maintenance Management System
...
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See Complementary-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Devices. ...
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See concrete masonry unit....
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A material that is applied in a liquid or
gel state and allowed to cure to a solid protective finish. All paints
are coatings, but not all coatings are paints....
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A term created to describe the equipment that "compresses" and "decompresses" visual and audio data in a video conference. CODEC stands for COder/DECoder. The equipment compresses the picture and the audio into a digital format to send over tele...
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Video CODECs are generally broken into two categories: low bandwidth that operates at 56 Kbps to 384 Kbps and high bandwidth that operates at 384 Kbps to 1.544 Kbps (or higher). Economic low bandwidth CODECs are generally used for individual or small grou...
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A measure commonly applied to indicate the efficiency of a luminaire. CU comprises a ratio of the light delivered to the area to be illuminated compared to the total light output of the lamp or lamps alone....
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On-site generation of electricity, heat, and/or cooling for the public or private sector. Cogenerators use waste heat created by one process to produce steam which is used, in turn, to spin a turbine and generate electricity. Congenerators may also be a Q...
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Rupturing or tearing of a sealant
in which the sealant material itself ruptures without loss of bond to
substrate. See Adhesive Failure....
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Combined lecture and laboratory spaces where researchers can interacting with colleagues and share access to facilities, equipment, data and computational resources....
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Pipes used to collect and carry
wastewater from individual sources to an interceptor sewer that will
carry it to a treatment facility....
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A device used for atomizing liquids in order to turn them into aerosols. Droplets of a liquid substance are impacted against the inside of a canister at high-velocity to create a refined gas that can be administered via a controlled air stream....
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A stable dispersion of molecular aggregates
in water that have a size ranging between one hundred and two hundred
millimicrons. Colloidal iron, aluminum and silica are commonly found in
water....
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An international
reference system for comparing the color rendering properties of lamps.
To determine CRI, a light source is compared to a reference source of
similar color temperature and assigned a number. A source with a CRI
number approaching 100 ...
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Commissioning is a quality assurance process of the installation of the systems in a building. It is a process for achieving, verifying, and documenting the performance of each system to meet the operational needs of the building within the capabilities o...
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An organization (such as a telephone
operating company) that provides communication services to the general
public at nondiscriminatory rates, without control of message content.
See also Bypass....
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Community relations at Motorola
has found it very useful to appoint a senior facility manager to act on
behalf of all facility operations in dealing with the local communities,
local utility companies and so forth. This person's job is to go out
durin...
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Required by the 1980
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
(CERCLA) in the event of a hazardous materials release or threat of
release. The plan specifies the communication activities to be
undertaken and provides for pu...
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The process of utilizing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to study and map anatomical abnormalities of the brain associated with mental illness. The study of the etiology and pathophysiology of mental illness using non-invasive ultra-high-field...
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CMOS is a common, low-cost method for producing semiconductors. This is the microelectronics technology used in almost all microprocessors, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS), field-programmable gate arrays FPGAs), and memory products. CMOS ...
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Elements of office or laboratory
furniture such as storage cabinets and work surfaces that are hung from
walls, partial-height partitions or frames. Componentry excludes
seating....
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Passed in 1980, this is the original
Superfund law, that committed $1.6 billion to the long-term, permanent
cleanup of the United States' worst hazardous waste sites. CERCLA, which
was amended and reauthorized in 1986 by the Superfund Amendments and
R...
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The Environmental
Protection Agency's computerized database that tracks the status of
suspected hazardous waste sites. ...
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The technique used to reduce bandwidth and memory when transmitting information....
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A new field created by the mixing of molecular biology and computer science. Used for example, in gene sequence analysis....
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation is used to determine the efficacy of different airflow configurations during building design.
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Materials can be idealized as uniform bodies or discretized into groups of atoms. Modeling indentation with both of these concepts of materials allows a better understanding of how materials respond to nanocontact.
...
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Quantum mechanics can be used to model the absorption of a molecule onto a surface.
...
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CT Scan. A series of detailed pictures of areas inside the body taken from different angles; the pictures are created by a computer linked to an x-ray machine. Also called computerized tomography and computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan.
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The analysis, design, modeling, simulation, and/or layout of building design with the aid of a computer. (Dictionary of Architecture & Construction, 2E © 1993, 1975 McGraw Hill Inc.)...
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When a manufacturing process in an organization has all of its systems linked by computer....
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Companies building new R&D
facilities have to provide ample space for functions that are growing
faster than the R&D organization as a whole. One function often
allotted insufficient square footage in most organizations is technical
computing....
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The production of engineering or architectural plans, drawings, visual displays, specifications, bills of materials, etc., using an interactive computer system and operator-provided numerical input.
With regards to CAD training, it has been said that t...
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The
combination of CADD, database management and specialized software for
space planning and optimization, forecasting and other functions
performed by facility planning and management professionals....
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The discipline
of programming and using computers to control production machinery such
as robots, service machines and numerically controlled machine tools,
and to perform related production planning and control functions such as
cost estimating, job ...
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A block cast from portland cement and aggregate intended to be used in stone masonry construction....
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See Predictive Maintenance....
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A coating specially formulated
to conduct static electricity....
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"Confined space" means a space that (1) is large enough and so configured that an employee can bodily enter and perform assigned work; (2) has limited or restricted means for entry or exit (for example, tanks, vessels, silos, storage bins, hoppers, vaults...
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A microscope that uses a Nipkow disk or a laser to produce point-probing raster scanning, yielding images with very high contrast in the third dimension. A small aperture at the secondary focus of the objective lens narrows the depth of focus and obstruct...
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A control system for
maintaining proper room pressurization. The system causes dampers or
fans to react when the pressure in a room changes (for example, when a
door opens)....
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An "opening" in a wall that allows the air flow between rooms to remain constant whether doors are opened or closed. In the animal field these openings are called "transfer grilles."...
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An air-conditioning system that maintains space temperature conditions based on a fixed flow of air to each space or zone, but with a variable temperature supplied to each zone. Temperature variations are provided by a reheat device—for example hot ...
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The cost of all of the
construction portions of a project, generally based upon the sum of the
construction contract or contracts and other direct construction costs.
The construction cost does not include the compensation paid to the
architect and co...
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The third of an architect's basic services. Working drawings and specifications are prepared for approval by the owner prior to bidding....
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Various forms of
contracting for new construction in which the owner contracts for and
entrusts to a third party various management functions that are intended
to control or reduce project costs and time and to assure construction
quality....
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The process of applying management techniques to the design and construction of a project. Generally involves coordinating the overlap of the project's design and construction phases and the activities of multiple prime building contractors. (FM Handbook,...
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A segregated, closed drain
system for the removal and subsequent collection of biological waste
that will eventually either be chemically and/or physically
decontaminated before it is introduced into the sewer system....
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A term used by designers to refer to a
set of physical boundaries that encloses three-dimensional space. A
container can be an entire building or the space on a single floor or in
a room....
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Housing for research animals
that protects the environment from contaminants within; accomplished
through procedure and facility design. In contrast, barrier housing
protects the animals from outside contamination....
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The introduction of something unwanted; e.g. chemicals, virus.
...
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A cost included in estimation to cover unforeseen cost elements. A fee to offset potential losses incurred.
...
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Also piano hinge. A hinge of the same length as the door to which it is attached....
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Also construction phase. The fifth of an architect's basic services. General administration of the construction contract(s)....
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Scientific and engineering
research services performed by or for others under the terms of a
contract. Utilizes the skills, knowledge and capital assets of others
without long-term obligations on the part of the purchaser....
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In lighting, the relationship between the
brightness of an object and its immediate background. An example of this
would be the relationship between the letters printed on this page and
the paper itself. An example of poor contrast would be a third or ...
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The basic remote signal generator for
environmental control in a computer-controlled building system....
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In information systems,
the procedure for changing the operating point of a local loop
controller from a remote station through the use of a pneumatic or
electronic control-setting device....
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In water systems, a quantification
of the relationship between the volume of feed and product water of a
reverse-osmosis membrane. ...
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Amount of electricity used
to meet the building cooling load....
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A building that houses two or more organizations that benefit both from R&D collaboration, but also from facility economics. These centers are established with government funding (i.e. grants) and differ from other research funding in that the centre is i...
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A process for drilling through concrete. A solid cylindrical "core" is removed in the process of cutting the hole, similar to an apple core. Core drilling is used to bore holes ranging from two-to-six inches in diameter for wiring poke-throughs or other u...
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In research facilities: a central-services room that holds common equipment used by many laboratories. Ultra-low freezers, refrigerated centrifuges, etc. ...
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The maintenance which is required when an item has failed or worn out, to bring it back to working order. Corrective maintenance is carried out on all items where the consequences of failure or wearing out are not significant and the cost of corrective ...
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A detailed engineering study of a building's walls, flooring, ceiling, plumbing, electrical, lighting, telecommunications and HVAC systems. Assets are grouped under several accelerated depreciation classifications. Then system components are assigned acce...
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See also Fee for Service....
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A term applied in financial analysis
to measure the debt capacity of an organization or institution. Defined
as net available cash flow per year divided by annual debt service
requirements (principal and interest)....
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See also Central Processing Unit...
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Breaks in a coating that penetrate to the substrate. See also Crazing, Checking, and Alligatoring....
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The development of a maze or random pattern of fine cracks in a material's surface caused by extreme cold, internal stresses, or lack of elasticity under external forces of weathering. See also Alligatoring, Checking, and Cracking....
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Corporate Real Estate...
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Especially in roofing, the property of a
substance that allows it in time to become permanently deformed when
subjected to a stress. Creep is greater at higher temperatures; creep at
room temperature is sometimes called cold flow. ...
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See Color Rendering Index. ...
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An electronic circuit that can rapidly
sense an overvoltage condition and provide a solid-state low-impedance
electrical path to eliminate the transient condition....
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See Community Relations Plan. ...
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Microscopy used to view biological structures that are too small for conventional electron microscopy and too large to be resolved by X-ray crystallography. Microscopy that determines three-dimensional structures of large macromolecular assemblies.
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A method of joining pipes and tubing (three-inch diameter or less) without heat, flame or the use of contaminating fluxes. This welding method employs special Raychem nickel alloy fittings that are packed in a cryogenic (cold) storage container; they shri...
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See also Coefficient of Utilization...
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In animal facilities: a space to hold animals, usually large enough to hold only one animal rack, with its own macroenvironment.
In offices: personal office space created by the use of modular furniture....
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In animal facilities: a space to hold animals, usually large enough to hold only one animal rack, with its own macroenvironment.
In offices: personal office space created by the use of modular furniture....
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Infectious agents and biologicals including cultures from medical labs, waste from the production of biologicals, discarded live and attenuated vaccines and devices used to transfer, inoculate and mix cultures.
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A measure of the rate at which energy is
released by a radioactive material....
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A unit of measurement for radioactivity....
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A wall that is part of the exterior
envelope of a building, but isn't a structural component. Usually made
of glass, metal or composite panels. The curtain wall provides building
aesthetics and the basic weather seal for the building. ...
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Permanent facilities designed for specific video conferencing system applications. Contrast with Group or Rollabout Video Conferencing Systems and Desktop Video Conferencing Systems. See also Audio Conferencing and Video Conferencing....
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A machine used to accelerate beams of charged particles by using alternating voltage across a magnetic field. Cyclotrons are used to develop tracers used in PET scanners and in various cancer treatments.
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