Facility Planning:
• "Facility Planning
for Disaster Preparedness"
Chris Cosgrove, CUH2A
In this presentation, you will first look at what kinds
of disasters can affect a vivarium, how vivariums are designed now and
what implication building code has on the design. Finally, you will
look at some examples of disasters in vivariums and what could be done
during the design stage to minimize their impact.
• "Preventing
Animal Drinking Water Emergencies"
Eric Edstrom, Edstrom Industries
Animal drinking water is subject to many different
kinds of emergencies, from water shortages, to contaminated water supplies,
to bacteria outbreaks. To protect research and research animals, facilities
need to make provisions to prevent these problems in the first place
and resolve the problems when they occur.
• "Uninterrupted
Power Supply for Cubicles"
William R. Britz,
Vice President, Britz-Heidbrink, Inc.
When you consider the value of
the science, labor and other materials associated with the animal, then
the value of each animal is significant. The up front cost of a UPS
is dependent on how much power you need to provide to upstream
users and how long you want upstream users to run after the loss of
the main power source. This presentation reviews how a UPS is
designed to protect an electronic system from four main types of power
problems.
• "Is Your
Building Management System Prepared for a Disaster?"
Dan Frasier,
PE, Cornerstone Commissioning, Inc.
Lane Watkins, MD Anderson Cancer Center
What is Commissioning? Commissioning
is a Quality Control Process to ensure that systems perform as the facility
owner intended. The
goal of commissioning is to provide a fully functional, fine-tuned HVAC
system with complete documentation and an adequately trained operating
and maintenance staff.
This presentation considers how the Commissioning Process
can be used to prepare for disasters?
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