Labs21 Phone Forum
August 11, 2003
Optimizing Laboratory Ventilation Design
Featured Speakers:
- Arlen Li, AIA, Director of Laboratory Planning, Payette Associates,
Inc.
- Gary Cabo, Associate Principal, Payette Associates Inc.
- David Pinto, Senior Associate and Project Manager, RG Vanderweil
Engineers, Inc.
- Bill Smeaton, Air Quality Specialist and Associate, Rowan Williams
Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI)
- Duncan Phillips, Laboratory and Industrial Ventilation Specialist,
RWDI
- Charlotte Matthews, Steven Winters Associates, Inc.
The safe, efficient, and thoughtful design of teaching and research
laboratories is essential to a successful facility. With today's
concern of how buildings affect not only the environment but also
their inhabitants, it is necessary to analyze how mechanical systems
function and affect interior spaces. This phone forum discussed
how computer modeling can help architectural and engineering teams
analyze the influence of mechanical system designs on a laboratory's
environment. Additional discussions focused on how Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can aid in optimizing mechanical system configurations
for appropriate levels of ventilation, comfort, reduced energy consumption,
and address containment concerns at fume hoods and bio-safety cabinets.
This phone forum was hosted by the Labs21
Teaching Laboratories Industry Forum.
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