Modular Cleanrooms – An Evolving Industry
By Mark Forst
An interview with Wayne McGee, owner of PortaFab Modular Building Systems, and Tim Loughran, owner of Cleanroom Construction Associates.
Case Study: Innovative Retrofitting for a Leading Life Sciences Facility
By Mary Bledsoe, Steve Breuer
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
By Tim Sunderland
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?
Ask the Facilities Guy: How do I produce a Disaster Recovery Plan?
By Richard Bilodeau, PE
Last month’s column laid the groundwork for developing a functional Disaster Recovery Plan. We reviewed key components of a disaster recovery plan and critical planning, discovery, and organizational steps one must take to develop a plan that functions beyond becoming a dust magnet on your bookshelf.
Ask the Facilities Guy: How do I develop a Disaster Recovery Plan?
By Richard Bilodeau, PE
When General Dwight Eisenhower reflected on the monumental task of planning the invasion of Normandy in World War II, he summed up my core advice regarding the development of a disaster recovery plan in six words.
Ask the Facilities Guy: Establishing an Equipment Reliability Program
By Richard Bilodeau, PE
Question: How do I best establish an Equipment Reliability (ER) program?
Point of View Green House Gas Auditing – Is it Worth the Gamble?
By Deborah Sweeney
The Green House Gas (GHG) audit industry is relatively new, and many are clamoring to enter this market before it becomes too costly to do so.
Point of View Enhancing the Facility Monitoring Program
By Barbara Done
Regarding the article in the June issue there is another, often forgotten, aspect of the monitoring program, which is the witness plate sampling and counting method as described in IEST-STD-CC1246D.
Floorplan: 5 simple steps for your next flooring project
By Jim Hendley
New or refurbishment resinous floor and wall system projects can appear overly complex in the early planning stage.
Some Traditional and Non-Traditional Cleanroom Uses and Related Contamination Control Practices
By Charles W. Berndt
A Brief Information Outline
Ask the Facilities Guy: Building Commissioning: Real or “Smoke & Mirrors”?
By Richard Bilodeau, PE
There’s a lot of talk about building commissioning these days. Is building commissioning for real or the latest “smoke and mirrors”?
Ask the Facilities Guy
By Richard Bilodeau, PE
My company is planning to expand its manufacturing capacity. Any words of advice on how best to scope the budget for construction projects?
Holistic User Requirements: An Example Through Airlock Design
By Scott Overton
A poorly designed cleanroom can bring even the best processes to their knees. As such, designing a high-functioning, top quality facility from end to end requires holistic thinking.
Driving A Modular Cleanroom to Denmark
By Jelle Hanse
A new cleanroom facility completed for the multinational company Ferrosan is a truly modular facility—designed and constructed in the United Kingdom and installed in Denmark.
Multi-Disciplinary Research Cleanroom Facility
By Jelle Hanse
The world-wide need for the development of replacement human tissue, via regenerative medicine and stem cell applications, has resulted in the development of a new state-of-the-art cleanroom and laboratory research facility at Loughborough University.
Don't Do It Yourself
By George Pollick
Understanding Cleanroom Design and Construction Requirements
If you browse through any bookstore, you will notice a large section devoted to “Do It Yourself” books on a variety of subjects. While this is a current rage, magnified by the poor state of the economy, there are still some projects best left to the experts.
Deciphering The Regulations For Facility Design and Environmental Control
By Wai Wong
With the FDA under fire in recent years regarding the quality of inspections, the effect has been to err on the safe side of regulatory requirements by proving more evidence.
Winning The Gold
By Richard A. Bilodeau
Successful Cleanroom Design Strategies in Today’s LEED World
Actionable Steps to Building A Sustainable Business
By Aaron Fowles
Simple steps that any business can take to reduce their overall impact on the environment
NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory Complex
By Ahmad Soueid, AIA, LEED® AP
The Project that Broke New Ground in Nanoscale Research
Nanotechnology Research Requires a Different Breed of Laboratories and Cleanrooms
By Ahmad Soueid, AIA, LEED® AP
It would be nice to be able to build a typical laboratory and command that “thou shall conduct nanoscale research here.” However, as nanoscale research evolves so must the architecture and building technologies.
The China Quality Challenge
By Bikash Chatterjee
After a recent trip to China, I returned more impressed than ever with the rapid level of development within the major markets there.
USP 797 Cleanroom Design
By Heather Wylie
Pharmacists can be in control of their cleanroom environment by understanding the critical elements.
The Bottom Line on Buying a Cleanroom System
By Rick Dobson
What questions, as a potential buyer, do you need to ask to ensure your performance specification will be met?
Nanotechnology Cleanroom - Design on A Dime
By Raymond K. Scheider
The tight budget of today’s nanotechnology facility start-ups makes the need for small scale cleanroom solutions as important as ever.