Published 4-24-2018
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will invest $80 million to construct a new Centre for Plant Health in Sidney, British Columbia. Replacing the existing 48-building campus, the p
Published 4-16-2018
The University of Otago is constructing a NZD$50 million animal research building on its south campus in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Published 4-9-2018
Aldevron is building a $30 million plasmid manufacturing facility in Fargo, N.D.
Published 3-29-2018
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology opened the Project Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (BEAM) in March of 2018 in Hamilton, Ontario.
Published 3-10-2018
Taconic Biosciences, a breeder of mice and rats for medical research, opened its 8,000-sf headquarters in February of 2018 in East Greenbush, N.Y.
Published 2-14-2018
Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) has received final approval from the Boston Public Health Commission to conduct research at Biosafety
Published 2-3-2018
Georgia State University is planning to construct a $35 million biocontainment research facility in Atlanta.
Published 1-17-2018
The Wuhan Institute of Virology began operations in its BSL-4 laboratories in January of 2018.
Published 12-20-2017
Engineered openings that minimize the turbulence of transfer airflow, along with a mix of control strategies between labs and anchor spaces, are a best practice for achieving stable pressurization in biocontainment facilities. “The golden rule of containment is to always maintain the relationship between exhaust and supply,” says Michael Clements, director of life sciences at WorkingBuildings, LLC. “To keep a room contained, airflow fluctuations in the exhaust require a reaction in the supply in order to maintain this critical relationship.”
Published 12-13-2017
In the concluding Open Forum/Town Hall session of Tradeline’s Facility Strategies for Animal Research and Biocontainment conference, moderator Derek Westfall, president of Tradeline, and subject matter commentators, Mark Corey with Flad Architects and Tiffini Lovelace with EYP Architecture & Engineering, led a knowledge exchange on questions posed by conference attendees. This is an edited transcript of that exchange.
