Planning for Proper Laboratory Airflow
9:30am – 10:45am

Nothing is more fundamental to safety and/or success in the laboratory environment than the proper use of airflow to protect lab users from hazardous fumes or to provide product isolation from contamination. The Lab environment as a whole, Fume Hoods, Bio Safety Cabinets, Ventilated Enclosures and point exhausts are used to protect lab personnel from hazardous substances and/or to protect items from contamination. Do you know what the correct ventilation requirements are for your lab? Do you know the correct type of hood to use for your situation? Safety, contamination and significant construction and energy costs are at stake so designing lab ventilation correctly is very important. Proper design and new trends in lab ventilation will be presented including fume hoods, Bio-Safety Cabinets, Ventilated Enclosures and Point Exhaust Devices.

Panel Moderator:

Edda Mihaescu, PhD
Principal Engineer, Bayer HealthCare, Pharmaceuticals Division

Panel Speakers:

Martin Gicklhorn
Partner/Lab Planner, Gicklhorn Lazzarotto Partners

Kevin C. Gilkison
Director of Ventilation Technologies, Labconco Corporation

Dale Sartor
Head of the Applications Team, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Design Strategies for Managing Your Chemical Inventory
11:00am – 12:15pm

Managing the chemical inventory within buildings is becoming more of an issue for biotech companies and is becoming more and more complex. This session will cover why is this important? What are the key facts I need to know? How do you develop a design that meets the limits for chemical quantities set forth in the code? What are some of the pitfalls? We will identify the basic approaches that can be used to limit chemical quantities within a building and then explore an example of an actual project that utilized these concepts. We will cover what worked and what didn’t work, what were the results that were expected and what were the results that were actually produced.

Panel Moderator:

Greg Muth
Senior Lab Planner, Flad & Associates

Panel Speakers:

Gavin Dollinger
Director Analytical Chemistry, Novartis Vacines

Frederic Rosqvist
Manager EH&S, Sunesis

Jeff Tarter
Chemical Engineer/Principal, IES

Biocontainment in Facility and Laboratory Environments
1:45pm – 3:00pm

The term "biocontainment" is used in describing safe methods for managing infectious materials in the laboratory environment where they are being handled or maintained. The three elements of containment include laboratory practice and technique, safety equipment, and facility design. The risk assessment of the work to be done with a specific agent will determine the appropriate combination of these elements. Primary containment, the protection of personnel and the immediate laboratory environment from exposure to infectious agents, is provided by both good microbiological technique and the use of appropriate safety equipment. Secondary containment, the protection of the environment external to the laboratory from exposure to infectious materials, is provided by a combination of facility design and operational practices.

Panel Moderator:

Gregg Eilerts, P.E.
Principal, Greene Engineers

Panel Speakers:

Derek Eggers
Project Executive, Siemens Building Technologies, Inc.

Gina L. Koenig, MA
Research Leader, Roche Molecular Diagnostics

Rick Unvarsky, P.E.
MEP Manager, XL Construction