Facility Design

Layout and Planning

Vivarium Renovation: Avoid the Common Pitfalls
All renovation planning can benefit from following a checklist of efficient energy and operationally attainable goals.
Emerging Issues in Research, Housing and Vivarium Design
ALN World asked research practitioners and vivarium design professionals about the future of vivarium design. Here are their answers.
How Do You Measure Quality in a Vivarium?
It’s pretty easy to grasp the concept of quality when you are talking about various things such as consumer products.

Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing

Healthy Habitats: Indoor Environmental Quality considerations for construction or renovation
A number of months ago we wrote about parameters to consider during the design of new facilities.
Use of Centralized Demand Control Ventilation in Research and Vivarium Facilities
This case study summarizes a University of Pennsylvania pilot study of costs and energy savings from implementing demand control ventilation solutions in the Vernon and Shirley Hill Pavilion vivarium and the Carolyn Hoff Lynch Life Sciences facility.
Vivarium Renovation: Avoid the Common Pitfalls
All renovation planning can benefit from following a checklist of efficient energy and operationally attainable goals.

Interior Elements

Vivarium Renovation: Avoid the Common Pitfalls
All renovation planning can benefit from following a checklist of efficient energy and operationally attainable goals.
Load Capacity of Casters and Wheels
The ease with which carts, laboratory equipment, mobile tables, or animal cages are maneuvered in any application are dependent upon the casters affixed them. But are the casters suitable for the load carrying capacity of the equipment?
Acoustic and Vibration Levels in Research Animal Facilities—What Is Required?
There are a significant number of possible factors that influence research results -- two of the lesser understood and more challenging factors are how acoustics and vibrations affect animal well-being.