Hospitals appear to be on their own when it comes to preventive maintenance of laboratory ventilation systems. Although hospital labs are highly regulated, government agencies and voluntary ...

Rodent populations in laboratory animal facilities have grown rapidly over the past decade—a trend that is expected to continue. By 2010, the number of mice housed for research purposes will probably ...

A colleague of mine was the project manager on a commissioning project for a build-out at a five-story, 150,000-sq-ft laboratory building at a large university. The commissioning team was finding it ...

The laboratories on Northwestern’s campus turn out cutting edge research, and they also use a lot of energy. Labs are particularly energy hungry spaces due to the need to run energy intensive ...

Walls lined with humming fume hoods are a defining feature of many chemistry laboratories. These safety devices, part of a lab’s overall ventilation system, suck hazardous airborne chemicals away from ...

Current guidelines pertaining to the housing of laboratory animals express caging standards for rodents in terms of minimum floor space and minimum height, relative to the body weight of the animal.

A groan went around the conference table. Robert Morris was on his soapbox again, arguing that laboratories in California are plagued by ventilation systems that meet safety specs on paper, but fail ...

In total 1,132 mice and rats died because a fuse blew in the cooling system, which saw the building they were kept in warm to unbearable temperatures. By the time technicians discovered the problem, ...