Many Factors Can Impact Equipment's Performance
The design of a CO2 incubator is critical to culture growth. Culture growth is optimal when the incubator properly blends these elements: CO2 gas, temperature, air quality, and relative humidity. The precision with which these elements are combined will determine how effective the growth environment shall be. Other factors, such as the incubator's location in the laboratory, the continuity of an electrical source, contamination, vibration, and routine maintenance are equally important to successful cell growth.

HEPA Filters Used in More than Just Laboratory Environments
Air filtration is a topic affecting everyone's lives, whether it is for occupational safety requirements, environmental or home health concerns. Control of airborne particulates in indoor environments is critical to develop quality products, protect employees from contact with hazardous materials, or prevent health problems from prolonged exposure to allergens. How airborne particulates are controlled varies from industry to industry and from an occupational setting to a home environment. To better understand why HEPA filters are used in the biological safety cabinet industry, it is necessary to explore particle sizes, types of filters available for home and occupational use, efficiency and penetration, filter standards and performance testing.

Prepare Your Building for the Heating and Cooling Seasons
Facility owners--and the designers and contractors who plan and build projects for them--are increasingly aware of the clear incentives for going green on new and existing buildings. With energy as the single largest operating expense in a typical commercial building, increasing a building's efficiency is a key ingredient to achieving environmentally sustainable goals.

Increase the Useful Life of HVAC Systems and Reduce Operating Costs
Building managers today must contend with a multitude of competing demands, including occupant safety and security, environmental compliance, system maintenance and housekeeping issues, along with the need to contain or reduce operating costs and stretch budget dollars. These pressures can easily draw attention and resources away from another critical element of building management: indoor air quality (IAQ).

about Lean Facilities Management and Capital Projects
Recorded testimony from conference participants at recent Tradeline Lean Facilities conferences.

University of North Carolina
The Max C. Chapman Jr. Hall, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill features three large lecture halls, an astronomy deck, two floors dedicated to marine sciences and two floors to physics. The building is designed to handle a wide variety of scientific needs with wet labs, dry labs, nano labs, high bay space, and a cleanroom.

Innovative and Cost-effective Structural System Sets Precedence for Seismically Active Zones
Structural system selection during the design phase of a hospital project is no small task. The system must meet requirements imposed by owners, architects, engineers, and others, including the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). OSHPD serves the state in the process of building permitting by verifying that hospital design and construction comply with its legislative framework for seismic safety. The Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act requires that acute care facilities remain functional, insofar as practical, during and following an earthquake.

about Biocontainment Facilities
Recorded testimony from conference participants at recent Tradeline biocontainment facility conferences.

Design Intent Document Key to Ensuring Cost-cutting Measures Don't Compromise Operational Integrity
When a new facility project begins to outgrow its budget the challenge is to devise a proactive rather than reactive strategy to containing cost escalation. Biocontainment facilities are no exception, but require an additional line of questioning: How do you cut dollars from a containment project without affecting operational integrity and community safety down the road?

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Occupants began moving into the Research 2 (R2) facility in August on the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo. Construction of the $236-million and 500,000-sf facility was completed in June 2008, and it is the latest addition to the new Colorado Science and Technology Park.

Bringing Lean Principles to Facilities and Capital Projects Management
Over the past two decades a rigorous focus on process improvement has generated notable gains in quality, productivity, and economy for the manufacturing sector. Much of this progress can be traced to innovations like just-in-time parts delivery and intensive waste-reduction efforts introduced by Japanese industry, most notably in Toyota's auto-making operations.