Facility Design
  • Modular Cleanrooms – An Evolving Industry
    An interview with Wayne McGee, owner of PortaFab Modular Building Systems, and Tim Loughran, owner of Cleanroom Construction Associates. How is the modular cleanroom industry changing to meet the demands of today’s market?
  • Case Study: Innovative Retrofitting for a Leading Life Sciences Facility
    Innovative design was the linchpin of a dramatic renovation that transformed a vacant telecom atrium office building into a state-of the- art life sciences company headquarters. Creative process and meticulous planning combined to create a facility with the dexterity to meet a range of specific, strict criteria.
  • What to Know When Considering a Cleanroom
    Does your business plan include the development of an area in your plant or laboratory for clean manufacturing or other procedures? Are you concerned that you make the right purchase? Do you want to make sure you consider the right factors when you evaluate different models?

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Modular Cleanrooms
  • Modular Cleanrooms – An Evolving Industry
    An interview with Wayne McGee, owner of PortaFab Modular Building Systems, and Tim Loughran, owner of Cleanroom Construction Associates. How is the modular cleanroom industry changing to meet the demands of today’s market?
  • What to Know When Considering a Cleanroom
    Does your business plan include the development of an area in your plant or laboratory for clean manufacturing or other procedures? Are you concerned that you make the right purchase? Do you want to make sure you consider the right factors when you evaluate different models?
  • Modular Softwall Cleanrooms
    Simple, Mobile, and Cost Effective

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HVAC
Nanotech Facilities
  • Nano is Big in North Carolina
    The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) began with a simple but powerful idea: to create a facility where nanoscience and nanoengineering could be accessible to everyone. In addition to the scientists, engineers, and post-docs already working in the field, this facility would allow undergraduate and K-12 students access to advanced knowledge emanating from exciting research activities in this emerging field of science and technology. Additionally, this facility would serve as a community and industry outreach center.
  • I'm Pickin’ Up [NANO] Vibrations… [The Building] Is Giving Me Excitations…
    Nanoscale research involves measurement, manipulation, and fabrication on a minuscule scale. The accurate tasks essential to nanoscale research require “quiet” spaces. Examples of “noise” sources offensive to quiet spaces include acoustic, electromagnetic, and radio frequency interferences and particulate and biological contamination. Structural vibration is a crucial topic discussed at length during the design of a nanoscale facility. The prudent practice when designing nanoscale research facilities is to address structural vibrations early in the design process.
  • Some Traditional and Non-Traditional Cleanroom Uses and Related Contamination Control Practices
    A Brief Information Outline Products and processes in many high-tech industries may be severely compromised by airborne particles, dust, chemical vapors, electrostatic discharge, and other contaminants. Industries such as semiconductor manufacturing, pharmaceutical processing, and biotechnology research typically use cleanrooms to control these contaminants as well as temperature and humidity.

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