Vivarium Renovation: Avoid the Common Pitfalls
By George Kemper, Larry DiGennaro
All renovation planning can benefit from following a checklist of efficient energy and operationally attainable goals.
Emerging Issues in Research, Housing and Vivarium Design
By Helen Kelly, Vera Baumans
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?
By Brian Lucid, Ken Lepidi
It’s pretty easy to grasp the concept of quality when you are talking about various things such as consumer products.
Living Through Construction (Horror Stories and Fairy Tales)
By James F. Cartwright, AIA
Construction is a messy business in the best of circumstances—but trying to maintain a functioning vivarium while surrounded by the din, dirt, and disruption of construction is next to impossible.
Animal Facility Procedure Rooms: Design and Use
By Mike McGarry, Michael J. Huerkamp, Andrew Pesek, Jerry Percifield
Animal holding rooms (AHR), rack systems, HVAC and other similar topics are frequently discussed during the design phase of an animal facility new construction or renovation project.
Real Applications of Green Strategies in Vivaria
By Camila Querasian, Lea Anne Leatherwood
Facility profiles at the Texas A&M University and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Considerations for Selecting and Installing UV Light for Bioburden Reduction
By Sam Speer
UV installed in vivarium HVAC systems can act as a secondary barrier against the introduction of biological contamination.
The Role of Vivaria in Undergraduate Science Education
By Robert L. DeGenova, AIA, NCARB
A look at the complex role of the vivarium as both research and training facility and some guidelines for designing best-fit vivaria for higher education.
User Knows Best: Post-Occupancy Conversations
By James F. Cartwright, AIA, Robert K. Young, RVT, RLATg
The final judges of how well a vivarium has been designed and constructed are its users—the personnel who work in it on a daily basis and keep it operating 24/7/365.
Acoustic and Vibration Levels in Research Animal Facilities—What Is Required?
By Randall Rozema
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.
Welfare Assessment of Laboratory Animals: Current Good Practice and Some Outstanding Issues
By Penny Hawkins BSc, PhD
An overview on setting protocols for assessing the welfare of laboratory animals.
Environmental Procurement: Thinking Beyond the Project
By Jeffrey R. Zynda
Environmental procurement can reduce operating costs, reduce the impact vivarium facilities can have on the environment, and promote sustainability and waste reduction.
Duke Lemur Center Gets Updated, Expanded Facilities
By Lauren Dunn Rockart, AIA, LEED AP
The design for two new buildings focuses on efficiency and flexibility, improving life for lemurs, keepers, and researchers.
Breathing Room: Design considerations for indoor environmental quality
By Vince McLeod, CIH
The following recommendations have been culled from years of dealing with IEQ complaints. More often than not the problem is traced back to poor design and ends up costing lots of money for renovations.
Holistic Design Process Provides UTMB With Complex National Research Building
By Raymond L. Beets, FAIA, Jeff H. Kim, AIA
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is unique among the health science centers in the state of Texas in that its research, academic, and comprehensive clinical programs and facilities operate under a single administration.
Acoustic and Vibration Considerations for Animal Research Facilities: Planning Through Construction
By Chris Papadimos, Andrew Gorton, Roman Wowk
Deal with noise and vibration issues during planning, design, and construction to avoid costly corrections.
Incorporating an Ethological Perspective to Improve Animal Welfare and Data Quality
By Helen Kelly
According to animal welfare ethologists, animals should be evaluated based upon their natural behaviour to improve the quality of experimental data collected.
Animal Lab Design for Existing Spaces
By Jay M. Brotman, Robert B. Skolozdra
A look at renovation, expansion, and conversion
The Greening of Containment: Beyond Energy Savings
By Jon Crane, AIA, LEED AP
In this column, I will discuss other important issues of sustainable facilities and how they might relate to containment facility design.
Design Considerations for Mouse Holding Rooms
By Mike McGarry, Michael J. Huerkamp, Andrew Pesek, Jerry Percifield
This article is presented with the intention of stimulating continued thought and dialogue regarding the process of design of mouse animal holding rooms and how to best serve the parties of interest.
Designing With Security In Mind
By Richard Connelly
Globalising animal rights issues and the targeting of secondary and tertiary targets means that all animal laboratory organisations must make security a top priority during the design/build process.
A Practical Guide For Designing Magnetic Resonance Imaging Suites
By Elizabeth Weisenberg
The structural and mechanical systems design, can ""make or break"" a project. In an older facility, and sometimes even in a new building, it can be difficult to meet the specific technical requirements that guarantee success.
Designing for Natural Behaviour
By Mike Jackson
A focus group looks at creating a rat cage with animal welfare at the forefront
What's That Industrial Engineer Doing in My Vivarium?
By Ken Lepidi, D. Brian Lucid
The use of industrial engineering practices and 3D simulation in the development of new or renovated vivariums, provides a means of maximizing holding room densities while identifying the most efficient use of manpower in animal husbandry and colony management.
Application of NASA Technology in Animal Laboratories
By Alistair Thompson
Photocatalytic technology developed for aerospace can reduce occupational exposure to laboratory animal aeroallergens.