From: davivid <davivid**At_Symbol_Here**WELL.COM>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Experience with hood sash automatic closers?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:19:27 -0700
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Message-ID: d6ccaad3-30eb-5d45-0691-14a6c2309b19**At_Symbol_Here**well.com
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Automatic sash closers are an example of a technological solution to a
fundamentally behavioral issue. If you want the sashes closed, train the
researchers to close the sashes.

Dave Lane
Principal
Clavis Technology Development

On 6/23/20 10:09 AM, william lee wrote:
>>From past experience I highly recommend you pay close attention to what Dr
> Haugen wrote. Also balancing an air system with features like this is
> complicated and requires a talented professional.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 10:38 AM Brown, Kimberly Jean
> wrote:
>
>> [Cross posting to IH/Lab Safety and ACS DCHAS]
>> Hello all:
>>
>> The architect and lab-planner consultants for an energy research building
>> on our campus have recommended the installation of fume hoods with
>> automatic sash closers. Being an energy-research facility, there is
>> obviously a focus on efficiency and sustainability in the design, and this
>> is one of the proposed ways of making the labs greener.
>>
>> Having no first-hand experience with this these, our office is concerned
>> about the practicality of these in devices in an academic laboratory
>> setting. Does anyone have any hoods like this on their campus?
>>
>> Kimi Brown, ARM, NRCC-CHO, CSP
>>
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