Biocontainment
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Mechanical System Solutions to Help Mitigate Spread of COVID
7-8-2020Communities, corporations, and educational institutions are drafting plans to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, employing policies around personal protective equipment; keeping a 6-foot distance from co-workers, peers, and clients; and reconfiguring their physical spaces. Another potential mitigation strategy is to adjust a facility’s mechanical system to better protect the occupants, though that should not be considered the primary solution, cautions Michael Walsh, PE, LEED AP, senior mechanical engineer and principal at R.G. Vanderweil Engineers, LLP. “There’s no silver bullet,” he says.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Plans High Containment Continuity Laboratory
7-1-2020The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will begin construction in early 2021 on the 160,000-sf High Containment Continuity Laboratory in Atlanta.
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HOK and Germfree Partner to Design Mobile SARS-CoV-2 Testing Lab
6-16-2020Access to quick, reliable, and repeated testing has been one of the greatest challenges for businesses, institutions, and individuals during the SARS-CoV-2 crisis.
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Genomic Partnership Wales Designs Research Facility
6-5-2020Genomic Partnership Wales is planning to construct a research facility in Cardiff in the United Kingdom to accelerate the development of pharmaceutical therapies.
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Allentown Offers Webinar on Benefits of Biocontainment
5-19-2020Allentown, an industry leader in research animal housing solutions, is offering a webinar on May 20, 2020.
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E4H Architecture Offers Webinar on Modular Facilities for Accelerating Vaccine Development
5-6-2020E4H Architecture presented a webinar on modular facilities for accelerating vaccine development on May 8, 2020.
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Tecniplast Offers Webinar on DVC® System for Home Cage Monitoring in Mouse Vivaria
5-6-2020Tecniplast is offering a webinar on the use of the DVC® System to optimize animal modelling in mouse vivaria.
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Construction Fast-Tracked for Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Oxford
5-5-2020The Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VIMC) is being constructed on an accelerated schedule in Oxford in the United Kingdom. Ground was broken on the £66 million project in April of 2020 and occupancy is expected in 2021, a year earlier than previously planned.
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Price Industries' Air Filtration Systems Mitigate Airborne SARS-CoV-2
4-27-2020Price Industries is significantly increasing production of its air filtration systems in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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International WELL Building Institute Assembles SARS-CoV-2 Task Force
4-26-2020The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) has assembled a task force to address the role of the built environment in reducing the impact of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory infections.
