Biological Laboratory Project

Project for a famous hospital in Jakarta, established by a State Owned Company. This hospital needs a Biological lab.level as laboratory for Ebola Virus Research. Before We start to design this laboratory, we must have a knowledge about type Laboratories. Based on ASHRAE Handbook, Laboratories can be divided into 4 types :

1. Biological Laboratories
2. Chemical Laboratories
3. Animal Laboratories
4. Physical Laboratories

In the operation, laboratory generate potentially some hazard, come from the material or effect of process. Hazard, is the importance thing to make a design concept , so that meets to the applicable safety plans.

The following Design parameters must be established for a laboratory space :

1. Temperature and Humidity, both indoor and outdoor
2. Air Quality from both process and safety perspective, including the need for air filtration and special treatment ( charcoal, HEPA, or other filtration of supply or exhaust air)
3. Equipment and process heat gains, both sensible and latent
4. Minimum ventilation rates
5. Equipment and process exhaust quantities
6. Exhaust and air intake location
7. Style of the exhaust device, capture velocities, and usage factors
8. Need for standby equipment and emergency power
9. Alarm requirement
10. Potential changes in the sizes and number of fume hoods
11. Room pressurization requirement

As We wrote above, this project is a laboratory as level as Ebola Virus Reasearch. Virus, next we can call“Agent”, being a important information to classify Biological Laboratories. NHI divides Biological Lab in 4 levels ;

1. BL Level 1 ( example :Bacillus Subtilis, Nagleria Gruberi )
2. BL Level 2 ( example : Hepatities, HIV, Salmonella, Toxoplasma )
3. BL Level 3 ( example : Mybacterium Tuberculosis, ST. Louis Encephalitis Virus, Coxiella Burnetti )
4. BL Level 4 ( example : Ebola )

From BL Classification , we can see , this project is in BL Level 4.

The customer give us a layout drawing,where the laboratory will be designed and established.

From discussion, the laboratory has a administration room and a research room. Because this laboratory is not difference with a clean room, we can associate this project with a clean room project.

Research room is always under strictly control.

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