Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:18:17 -0700 From: Larry GibbsSubject: Re: [DCHAS-L] New Chemistry Laboratories Barbara, The URL below points to a set of guidelines we developed at Stanford University. Each guideline provides a reference to a code or best practice citation for that guideline. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/mainrencon/Labdesign.html Larry Gibbs Lawrence M. Gibbs, CIH Associate Vice Provost Environmental Health and Safety EH&S - 480 Oak Road Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-8007 Ph: 650/723-7403 Fax: 650/725-3468 e-mail: LGibbs**At_Symbol_Here**stanford.edu EH&S Web Site http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/ == Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] New Chemistry Laboratories Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:55:47 -0500 From: "John E Pingel" Barb, One of the first things you might do is to call around to major campuses that are within traveling distance for two purposes. First, find one or more campuses that recently remodeled or built labs for the purposes you will need and sit down and talk to the chemistry people about the labs and their experience. They may also have drawings and documents they would be willing to loan you. Second, arrange to tour a few additional campuses (as you have time and need), to find out what those who are responsible for the labs like and don't like and to see for yourself what you like and don't like about them. Take photos to review later and to show (or email, if you use digital) what you want and don't want, and consider taking along a tape measure to quickly measure aisle and other widths you like or don't like. You can take along more, like a noise meter and vaneometer if you want to get more involved. Of all the parties involved in the building process, you are the one who will be most impacted by the functionality aspect of the design of the labs once they are built, and you will want to assure that that aspect of the design meets your needs. When remodeling some of the teaching labs here, even though we worked with an A&E who had good lab experience and didn't shirk responsibilities, we still chose to keep proactively involved in decisions affecting functionality, from the layout of the labs and arrangements, dimensions and types of storage and counterspace all the way down to details like increasing the number of fluorescent tubes over what standardly came in the hoods and asking for samples of different colors of countertops so that we could test them with the chemicals we use in the teaching labs to see what color of countertop stained the least. John Pingel Division of Research Safety, Illinois (formerly supervisor of the chemistry labs) === From: "Dawn Ianson" Subject: RE: New Chemistry Laboratories, 3 responses Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:46:39 -0700 There is a really good book out there called "Guidelines for Laboratory Design Health and Safety Considerations" by Louis J Diberardinis, Janet S. Saum, Melvin First, Gari T. Gatwood and Anand K. Seth. I got a copy through the ACGIH. This will help you with the placements of hood, Air flow and workflow considerations etc. ~Dawn
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