Planning and designing research animal facilities by Jack Hessler, Noel Lehner

By Jack Hessler, Noel Lehner

Study associations have or are making plans to construct, extend and renovate animal examine amenities to maintain with the calls for of biomedical learn triggered partially by means of development within the use of genetically altered rodents and the upsurge of study in infectious ailments.

Properly designed amenities significantly facilitate powerful administration and fine quality daily animal care that's required to optimally aid animal study and trying out. There are a number of suggestions to deal with the myriad of things that impact the layout and building of animal examine amenities. there's no “best” layout appropriate for all amenities and arguably now not even a unmarried “best” layout for a given facility. for that reason, this isn't meant to be a “how to” ebook. The objective is to hide the fundamental programmatic standards of animal learn amenities, supply principles for assembly these requisites whereas, optimistically, stimulating the inventive procedure within which designers in session with those that paintings in animal learn amenities generate even larger principles. that's how development has been made and may stay made.

* enables conversation among the events fascinated about making plans and designing animal amenities through offering modern info, and stimulating creativity that may support result in clever judgements and develop the information base for making plans, layout and developing animal examine amenities

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43, 64–65. Somin, M. R. and Wilson-Sanders, S. E. (2004b). Designing your new animal facility, Part I. Contemp. Topics Lab. Anim. , 43, 72–75. Tyson, K. W. and Corey, M. A. (1999). Facility design: forecasting space requirements. , 28, 28–31. Vogelweid, C. , Hill, J. , Shea, R. A. et al. (2003). Using site assessment and risk analysis to plan and build disaster-resistant programs and facilities. , 32, 40–44. Chapter 5 Pre-occupancy Planning, Commission, Qualification and Validation Testing Michael J.

Some involve issuing separate bid packages for portions of the project or having a construction management firm provide preconstruction services leading up to a lump-sum bid for the general construction. Each of these methods has its own advantages and disadvantages in terms of cost and schedule. The more sophisticated ways of managing construction projects often should only be used if the client 34 JOHN N. NORTON AND ALEX B. BROUWER Current SF Proposed Proposed SF 5975 3 suites @ 1800 1 per suite @ 10 ϫ 20 1 suite @ 1800 20 ϫ 70 subtotal 5400 incl 1800 1400 8600 subtotal 700 300 200 1500 200 500 3400 subtotal 100 500 220 325 400 100 100 1745 subtotal total 15000 1000 160 2445 18605 32350 Core functions – Holding rooms – Anterooms – Incoming quarantine – Receiving/shipping dock AR support functions – Treatment room/laboratory – Feed storage – Supplies storage – Cage-wash – Waste handling dock/containers – Transport cage/equipment storage/repair Staff support functions – Entrance vestibule –Toilets/lockers/showers – 2 Offices – 5 workstations – Conference room/training/breakroom – Records storage – Office supplies storage 600 226 1257 470 859 Building support functions – Mechanical room & penthouse – Electrical/data/communications – Housekeeping closets – Main corridor 3327 12714 Fig.

Somin, M. R. and Wilson-Sanders, S. E. (2004a). Choosing the expert to design your new or renovated animal care facility. Contemp. Topics Lab. Anim. , 43, 64–65. Somin, M. R. and Wilson-Sanders, S. E. (2004b). Designing your new animal facility, Part I. Contemp. Topics Lab. Anim. , 43, 72–75. Tyson, K. W. and Corey, M. A. (1999). Facility design: forecasting space requirements. , 28, 28–31. Vogelweid, C. , Hill, J. , Shea, R. A. et al. (2003). Using site assessment and risk analysis to plan and build disaster-resistant programs and facilities.

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