Re: Design specifications for an imaging core

Posted by Peter Humphreys on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Design-specifications-for-an-imaging-core-tp5008946p5009982.html

I hate curtains. I have partitions,  6 feet high to divide the room into
bays which allow the air to circulate to the 'air conditioning'. It is
ok unless we need the lights on in a bay. We can also rearrange the
partitions if new kit arrives, etc. Hot air extracts through the wall
help keep the temperature stable. There is never enough space, being
able to get behind equipment can be handy, better than crawling under or
reaching over.
Closing doors seem to cause vibration, especially with modern drywall.
The Patterson Institute in Manchester has some info online about their
design  http://www.paterson.man.ac.uk/imaging/lab.stm

Peter




On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:01 -0500, Martin Wessendorf wrote:

> Dear All--
>
> Some space here is being remodeled for use as an imaging core and it'd
> be helpful to know what other institutions have specified (or WISH they
> had specified) as requirements for the space.  (It'd also be helpful to
> know what people think, in retrospect, was a waste of money.)
>
> One thing that particularly concerns me is temperature stability--we
> really don't want 5-degree C air from the air-conditioning system
> blasting down onto a microscope that's in the middle of a z-series.
> However, I can only guess at the limits of acceptability.  What have
> other groups specified and found works?  I expect that saying "hold the
> set-point +/- 0 degrees" isn't going to be helpful to the contractor.
>
> --My recollection is that the list has covered similar topics in the
> recent past, but the search terms I've tried aren't coming up with the
> hits I'm looking for.
>
> Thanks--
>
> Martin Wessendorf