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The Facilities Condition Index (FCI) expresses the cost of deficiencies as a percentage of the current replacement value of a single facility or group of facilities, as defined by Coopers & Lybrand, 1989. The Facilities Condition Needs Index (FCNI) can al...
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A systematic inspection and identification of the physical and functional adequacy of facilities, with particular reference to the building fabric, services, and site works components, to provide input for life cycle cost analysis, short-term maintenance ...
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A term that refers to how well a building works for the users from a total holistic viewpoint (functions, safety, amenities, workflow, efficiency, environment). More than just meeting the program, how does it feel to live and work in the building....
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A system that will not fail its purpose under any circumstances; e.g., electric door locks that fail to close. In reference to electric door locks, Fail-Closed and Fail-Open are terms also in use.
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A fan and heat exchanger for heating and cooling that is assembled within a common casing. Also known as a Fan Convector Unit. ...
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See also Fan Coil Unit....
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See Floor Area Ratio....
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Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography, (FPLC), is a form of column chromatography used to separate or purify proteins from complex mixtures by using ion chromatography. It is very commonly used in biochemistry and enzymology. Columns used with an FPLC can se...
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A scheduling process in which design and construction activities overlap....
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See Fan Coil Unit....
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The phase of a hazardous
waste investigation undertaken under the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) cleanup in which
remedial action alternatives are developed, evaluated and selected. See
also CERCLA....
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A healthcare term also known as indemnity. The traditional system in the U.S. in which patients or insurers are billed by physicians or insurers and hospitals for each service rendered. Also known as Cost-Based Reimbursement....
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Water entering a purification system....
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The process of growing microorganisms
for the production of chemical or pharmaceutical compounds. Large tanks,
called fermenters, contain the microorganisms along with the nutrients
that microorganisms require to multiply....
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See Fixtures, Furniture and Equipment. ...
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A means of transmitting data and
communications in which light transmitted through thin glass fibers is
intensity modulated by data signals. The use of fiber optics
significantly reduces the large volume of wire or conductors (coaxial
and twisted pai...
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Concrete-based
construction material used in applications such as slabs and overlays,
precast products, structural beams and girders and shotcrete
applications. Glass, polyethylene or steel fibers are added to the other
concrete ingredients. Addition ...
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Compositional structural material used as wall and door finishes for durability and low maintenance....
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The efficiency of various
filters. Collection efficiency is established on the basis of particles
that are entrapped in a filter, and penetration efficiency is
established on the basis of particles passed through a filter....
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Fin-tube is a manufactured product which enhances the heat transfer surface of copper tubing by attaching fins to the tube. In a residential application it is called “baseboard” because that is where it is located. Usually it is covered and yo...
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An external wall built on the block boundry side of a lateral opening to screen that opening to and from an adjoining block....
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A vertical maintenance access area
incorporating a service rack for the distribution and connection of
utilities. In cleanrooms and laboratories, repetitive fingerwalls can
serve the additional function of air return plenums....
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In animal facilities, the floor, wall, door, and ceiling coatings....
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Commonly used to refer to all building
construction and improvements other than the basic shell components of
the building, consisting of foundation, structure, external walls and
roof. There are basically two classes of fit-up work. Building fit-up
i...
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A plant layout method that
allows the product or assembly to remain stationary while tools,
machinery, workers and supplies are brought to the product....
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Open areas adjacent to window
areas that provide workers in internal spaces visual access to the
outside. These areas can double as break areas, but they must be located
or sized so that they cannot be converted to additional offices....
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The moveable components of a facility. In labs and special high-tech facilities, FF&E is typically equal 1 to 1.2 times the total construction budget....
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See Flame Atomic Absorption. ...
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A laboratory
technique used for trace element analysis....
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Sound that travels from one point to
another by other than a direct path. Sound may be reflected, transmitted
by structural means or leaked. Like ripples in a still pond, sound waves
proceed from the original source to the nearest hard surface and then...
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A mix of flat and round flexible copper
conductors laminated in an insulating material laid under carpet to
distribute power and communication services from transition boxes in
columns or walls to pedestal outlets at individual workstations. Cables
ar...
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A term that is loosely applied in
describing facilities capable of responding or conforming to changing or
new situations. The range of specific meanings include: (a) used
differently without modification, (b) easily modified to suit a
different use o...
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Class III biosafety cabinets, which are used extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia but have not yet been adopted in the U.S. Like other isolation cabinets, flexible film cabinets operate under negative air pressure. However, unlike traditiona...
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The perception of variation in the
brightness of a VDT display or fluorescent light. VDT flicker is not
believed to cause any permanent visual damage; however, the perception
of flicker is annoying and may cause visual fatigue. Flicker in
fluorescent ...
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The lowland and relatively flat areas
adjoining inland and coastal areas subject to a one percent or greater
chance of flooding in any given year....
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The gross square footage of a
building divided by the square footage of the building site. A general
planning specification used principally in urban situations to limit the
density of building in a particular zone. If the FAR equals 1.0 for a
100,000...
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Conduit termination points cast into
concrete that house wiring devices and modular jacks. Activations can be
with pedestal, flush or recessed fittings. The most appropriate use of
floor boxes is for service requirements at precise locations that will
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Analysis of biological material by detection of the light-absorbing or fluorescing properties of cells or subcellular fractions (i.e., chromosomes) passing in a narrow stream through a laser beam. An absorbance or fluorescence profile of the sample is pro...
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The air coming out of a chimney after
combustion of a product. ...
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The air-borne solid particles that result from the burning of coal and other solid fuel. Using coal fly ash conserves energy by reducing the demand for typical pavement materials such as lime, cement and crushed stone, which take energy to produce. Each t...
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Facility Maintenance/Facility Manager/Facility Management...
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Inanimate carriers of disease such as door knobs....
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The FDA Modernization Act of 1997 affirmed the FDA's public health protection role and defined the Agency's mission as, in part, to promote the public health by promptly and efficiently reviewing clinical research and taking appropriate action on the mark...
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The basic measure used to indicate
illuminance (level of illumination). One foot candle is equal to one
unit of light flux (one lumen) distributed evenly over a one-square-foot
surface area....
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The relationship
between average foot candles and minimum foot candles (such as 3:1) or
maximum foot candles and minimum foot candles (such as 6:1). The
maximum:minimum ratio generally is preferred because average foot
candles cannot be seen....
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The theoretical average amount of light falling on a surface, as derived by averaging the illumination falling on all points of the surface. Two systems may produce identical average foot candles while providing highly dissimilar illumination.
Horizon...
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The square footage needed to support a function (like the ground area that a building and accessory support services will use)....
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French for superior or irresistible
force. A clause commonly added to construction contracts to protect the
parties in the event that a portion of the contract cannot be performed
because of intervening causes outside the control of the contracting
pa...
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CH2O. A colorless, pungent and irritating toxic chemical that is present in building materials, furniture, textiles, resins and tobacco smoke. It is used in the production of synthetic urea and phenol-formaldehyde resins, which are used in manufacturing p...
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The last sterile process in a
pharmaceutical manufacturing process producing a finished product.
Formulation is the combination of active pharmaceutical ingredients with
excipients (inactive ingredients) such as gelatin, sodium chloride or
water. Fill...
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Refers to a telephone network with four-wire cabling instead of the conventional two-wire cables typically used in phone systems. A four-wire circuit allows users at two locations to talk and be heard simultaneously. The four-wire circuit usually avoids p...
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See Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. ...
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A non-territorial office plan.
A Japanese corporation, Shimizu Corp., found that the maximum occupancy
rate in their R&D offices at any one time was 75 percent, with an
average occupancy of 51 percent. This space was replanned so that only
secreta...
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As applied to computer room air conditioning units, when the outside air temperature falls below a certain level, the units turn off the mechanical refrigeration system and reject computer-generated heat to the atmosphere using an antifreeze solution, pum...
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A temperature sensor that monitors the air temperature moving over heating coils exposed to outside air to prevent the coils from freezing.
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A relatively inexpensive way to add pictorial information to an audio teleconference by transmitting and/or receiving still video pictures over a telecommunications channel, usually a voice-grade telephone line or a lower-speed data channel. In a typical ...
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A consolidated frozen-materials
storage area....
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A measure of pitch that distinguishes a "high" sound or note from a "low" one, measured in Hertz. Most sounds are complex_they contain a mixture of many frequencies. A few sources, such as tuning forks or oscillators, can generate sing...
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A material that contains more than one percent asbestos and can be crumbled or pulverized by hand....
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A frictionless centrifugal compressor chiller has been developed by McQuay International. Utilizing oil-free magnetic bearing technology, the frictionless centrifugal compressor chiller (FCCC) offers tremendous savings in energy and maintenance costs, as ...
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See fiber-reinforced panels.
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See Feasibility Study....
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Air contaminant emissions from
sources other than stacks, ducts or vents or from nonpoint emission
sources....
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Two-way communication in tele- or video conferencing. In a two-site duplex video conferencing, both parties can send and receive video, audio, and data simultaneously. See also Duplex Audio....
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A technique that uses a computer, rather than x-ray film, to record x-ray images of the breast.
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A term that distinguishes between
high-quality video employed in teleconferences and a lower quality video
that is more like "freeze frame." The lower quality video can be
transmitted at slower speeds over less expensive and more readily
available tra...
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Fluorescent lighting that very closely matches the spectral energy distribution of sunlight. Full-spectrum lighting is important in animal research facilities because the lack of it in animal housing can affect animal maturation and sex habits. Research i...
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A full-time employee, or a combination of part-time employees whose combined hours are the equivalent of a full-time position, as defined by the employer....
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A self-contained work area inside a laboratory room from which potentially dangerous fumes are exhausted from the enclosed work surface by means of a separate air exhaust system. Fume hoods can be bench-type, in which the researcher reaches into the hood ...
| | 10.31.06
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An enclosed space, e.g. a room, that is used to decontaminate equipment or items. Liquid or gaseous agents are used to kill vermin, bacteria, etc. These agents are extremely toxic, so fumigation chambers must be negative to the surrounding area and have...
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A method of corporate structuring that divides the company into groups by function, e.g. accounting, research, manufacturing, marketing, engineering, in contrast to cross-departmental teams focused on specific projects.
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A group of plantlike organisms that lack chlorophyll, including molds and mildews....
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Interchangeable. Serving equally well in the fulfillment of an obligation. Commonly applied to commodities, energy and currency. In facilities planning, it describes general purpose office space suitable to any kind of office work or department use (fungi...
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A chemical that keeps fungi from growing....
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