Facility Design

Cleanroom Design

Deciphering The Regulations For Facility Design and Environmental Control

With the FDA under fire in recent years regarding the quality of inspections, the effect on biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies has been to err on the safe side of regulatory requirements by proving more evidence wherever they can.

Winning The Gold

Successful Cleanroom Design Strategies in Today’s LEED World

Actionable Steps to Building A Sustainable Business

Simple steps that any business can take to reduce their overall impact on the environment

NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory Complex

The Project that Broke New Ground in Nanoscale Research

Nanotechnology Research Requires a Different Breed of Laboratories and Cleanrooms

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

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

Pharmacists can be in control of their cleanroom environment by understanding the critical elements.

The Bottom Line on Buying a Cleanroom System

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

The tight budget of today’s nanotechnology facility start-ups makes the need for small scale cleanroom solutions as important as ever.

Keeping Product Clean In and Out of the Cleanroom -- (Part 1) The Interface

Are you aware that incorrect materials transfer could pose one of the biggest potential sources of contamination within a cleanroom?

Predicting The Future: a Model for Integrating Facility and Strategic Planning

With a typical production and maintenance lifetime measured in decades, the decision to devote capital resources to build a development or manufacturing facility is a significant investment that carries long reaching implications for any business.

Facility Considerations

Our Quality Management team has determined that we need to convert from a controlled environment to a cleanroom environment. Where can I find information to design and build a cleanroom?

A Roadmap for Lean Facility Design

In terms of strategic impact, applying Lean manufacturing principles to facility design elevates the investment of a new facility to its correct place in an organization’s strategic plan, because it maximizes value and efficiency.

Basic Cleanroom Protocol

Can you please recommend a basic protocol program for cleanrooms?

Point of View: Where’s the Magic?

The flexibility of cleanroom suppliers at all levels to adapt to a customer base with a new vocabulary and mindset will be the key to future success and growth (and, in fact, to survival).

Case Study: Pharmaceutical Lab Construction

Have you heard these statements in our industry? “Give me an isolator and I can run cGMP products in a parking lot.”

Tutorial: Building A Cleanroom

Cleanroom construction begins with the floors, walls, and ceilings. This article focuses on the necessary specifications for these cleanroom components to ensure maximal cleanliness and minimal contamination.

The Green Clean Laboratory

The notion of sustainable construction as “those materials and methods used to upgrade, construct, and maintain a structure that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” has been percolating through society for some time now.

Building A Clean Research Laboratory

When approaching the project of building a research lab, there are many questions that need to be answered.

Airflow Modeling Simulation Optimizes Cleanroom Design

A case study illustrating the use of airflow modeling software in the design of a pharmaceutical cleanroom.

High-Performance Door Systems for Cleanrooms

Cleanroom doors are as important as air filtration and air distribution in cleanroom design.

Installing ESD Flooring in an Operational Cleanroom

Options for installing ESD flooring in an existing operational facility withminimal impact on contamination and production.

Commissioning and Qualification of Existing Facilities and Systems

The commissioning process verifies the following: what was specified was installed; that it functions properly; and that it was successfully turned over to the user.

Case Study

A life-sciences company needed to expand its manufacturing operations, as it could no longer manage its data with a paper-based system. Within six months, it had to select, install, and validate a system that would be able to handle an increasing amount of data.