The design of a laboratory facility can be a major factor in its success.
Floor plan research lab layout.
Asbestos and other regulated building materials.
Confined space entry program.
Three dimensional lab module the three dimensional lab module planning concept combines the basic lab module or a two directional lab module with any lab corridor arrangement for each floor of a building.
Laboratory risk assessment tool.
The guide includes helpful checklists for various teaching and storage spaces chemical hygiene plans and articles related to safe laboratory design.
Workshopping with those who will be using the area themselves is essential since the lab can be tailored to what the research requires and superfluous elements can be quickly identified.
An extensive period of pre planning is vital to the design of a lab.
In addition floor standing centrifuges are noisy and dangerous as are large irradiators and will often require a room with a lockable door.
Accident and injury reporting.
Laboratory design from the editors of r d magazine.
National academy press 2000.
A well designed lab can be more efficient quieter more attractive and cheaper than one with design related problems.
This means that a three dimensional lab module can have a single corridor arrangement on one floor a two corridor layout on another and.
Simon who until recently was a lab member at rockefeller university in new york studying biophysics developed the methodology for an experimental research project he calls evolving floor.
For experimental spaces sketch out the dimensions of laboratory grade furniture benches desks equipment shelves wash areas on the architectural floor plan.