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
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.
Material Resources for Building Green Vivariums
By Jennifer N. Browne, AIA, LEED AP
The following article is an excerpt from “The Green Vivarium: Strategies for Sustainability” being developed by the Green Vivarium Foundation. The intent of these guidelines is to encourage the implementation of sustainable strategies and to illustrate the benefits of sustainable design in vivarium facilities.
The Green Vivarium: Strategies for Sustainability
By Chery Honiotes
It takes people energy to implement energy and resource savings in a vivarium. An upcoming resource publication looks to help inform and guide the process toward greener and more sustainable facilities.
The Greening of Containment: Airflow Issues
By Jon Crane, AIA, LEED AP
In this installment of my sustainable design and containment series, I will focus on energy issues particularly related to the systems required, and energy used, to move air through a containment laboratory.
The Greening of Containment
By Jon Crane, AIA, LEED AP
We must challenge the existing paradigms in both operation and design if we are to make significant impact on sustainability in laboratories.
How Green Can Vivarium Design Be?
By Jennifer N. Browne, AIA, LEED AP
When it comes to designing energy-efficient research buildings and laboratories, the primary challenge is to achieve a balance between energy consumption and research efficacy.
A Comprehensive Review of the IEQ and Energy Savings Impact of Dynamically Varying Air Change Rates in Labs and Vivariums
By Gordon P. Sharp
The greatest single approach for reducing energy use in vivariums is to reduce or vary the room air change rates.
Greening Vivarium HVAC Systems
By Todd Mowinski, PE, LEED AP
Vivariums present many unique challenges to design and construction professionals. Due to the stringent environmental and construction requirements, designers and builders have their hands full ensuring the facility meets the numerous standards regulating these spaces.
Green and Lean: Methods of Improving Lab Animal Room Ventilation
By Scott D. Reynolds, ME, PE , Eric D. Joesten
Hardly a day goes by where we don’t hear about the rising cost of energy, its scarcity, and the negative impacts of fossil fuels on the global environment.
Dynamic Variation of Laboratory Air Change Rates
By Gordon P. Sharp
A New Approach to Saving Energy and Enhancing Safety
Green Building Basics -- High Performance Design
By Rick Deitrich
Even lab animal facilities can be designed or renovated to use less energy, and conserve water and other resources.
Health and Safety When Building Green
By Vince McLeod, CIH, Glenn R. Ketcham, CIH
How are green buildings built? And, what does this mean for the laboratory animal facility manager? This column will take a look at green building and touch on some of the potential health and safety issues involved.
Energy-efficient Washing Systems
By David Beckinghausen
What’s going down the drain can be money. Energy conservation through reduced water consumption and lower cycle temperatures don’t mean less sterile.
The Realities of Energy Efficiency in Ventilated Housing Systems
By Gail A. Heidbrink, RLATG
Ventilated caging systems have been a primary contributor to the rapid advances of biomedical research in recent decades. Their increased usage has also been an indirect contributor to energy savings for many institutions for a variety of factors.