MSU Clinical Center Animal Facility HVAC Upgrade

密歇根州立大学临床中心动物设施 HVAC 升级

• 批准号: 8185686
• 负责人: Joseph R Haywood
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2014-08-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8185686
• 关键词: Age; Aging; Agriculture; Air Conditioning; Animal Experimentation; Animal Housing; Animals; Area; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Research; Clinical; Communicable Diseases; Data; Disease; Ecology; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Enrollment; Ensure; Environmental air flow; Equipment; Equipment Malfunction; Exercise; Facility Designs; Faculty; Floor; Foundations; Funding; Future; Gastroenterology; Grant; Growth; Health; Heating; Height; Housing; Institution; Investments; Laboratory Animals; Learning; Longevity; Maintenance; Michigan; Molecular; Neurosciences; Regenerative Medicine; Research; Research Support; Social Welfare; Students; System; Time; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; aged; animal care; animal facility; base; college; cost; flexibility; interstitial; member; microbial; programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary: Michigan State University (MSU) is currently undertaking a master planning exercise to ensure that state-of- the-art facilities continue to be used to house laboratory animals for research and teaching. Several of the laboratory animal facilities are reaching the age where they will require upgrades and the institution will make selective investments based on the use, condition and long-term viability of the facility, thus not all facilities will continue to be invested in resulting in discontinued use for animal housing. An initial conclusion from this study is that our premier animal care facility, the Clinical Center Animal Facility (CCAF), will require renovation of the engineering systems. The CCAF is the major laboratory animal facility at MSU used to support the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research. Following these upgrades the facility will support the research of over 46 faculty members. MSU will match the NIH funding in excess of a 3:1 ratio. The proposed project focuses on upgrading the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system of the CCAF. Although almost 35 years old, the CCAF is an extremely well-designed facility. The layout of the facility is flexible to accommodate a wide variety of research and can be expanded horizontally or vertically for future growth. There is a full height interstitial space above each of the floors allowing this HVAC upgrade project to be carried out cost effectively. The CCAF HVAC system is original and nearing the end of its reliable lifespan. This renovation project will replace the current aged components, and add redundancy and central alarming of the system. The proposed renovation will ensure that tight environmental controls are maintained for optimal animal health and welfare and reliable research data, by replacing the aging HVAC equipment and ensuring redundancy should the new equipment malfunction or during times of planned maintenance. Once upgraded, this facility will provide space during renovation and maintenance of some of the smaller campus animal facilities, housing for animals in facilities deemed not optimal to renovate, and to accommodate the research of new faculty in the areas of regenerative medicine, neuroscience, and infectious disease, molecular mechanisms of disease, biomedical engineering and gastroenterology /microbial ecology. MSU is a public, land-grant institution designated as a Research-Extensive university by the Carnegie Foundation. The first institution of higher learning in the United States to teach scientific agriculture, MSU offers more than 200 programs of study offered by 17 degree-granting colleges that attract scholars worldwide. As a comprehensive research university, MSU has 5,000 faculty and academic staff, 6,300 support staff, more than 36,400 undergraduate and nearly 10,800 graduate and professional students. Total enrollment for 2009- 2010 exceeded 47,200, making MSU one of the ten largest universities in the United States.

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要：密歇根州立大学（MSU）目前正在进行总体规划练习，以确保最先进的设施继续用于容纳实验室动物进行研究和教学。一些实验室动物设施达到了他们需要升级的年龄，并且该机构将根据设施的使用，状况和长期生存能力进行选择性投资，因此并非所有设施都将继续投资以导致停产用于动物住房。这项研究的最初结论是，我们的主要动物护理设施，临床中心动物设施（CCAF）将需要对工程系统进行翻新。 CCAF是MSU的主要实验室动物设施，用于支持生物医学和行为研究的进行。升级后，该设施将支持46多名教职员工的研究。 MSU将匹配超过3：1比率的NIH资金。拟议的项目着重于升级CCAF的加热，通风和空调（HVAC）系统。 CCAF虽然将近35岁，但是一个非常精心设计的设施。该设施的布局可以灵活地适应各种各样的研究，并且可以水平或垂直扩展以实现未来的增长。每个楼层上方都有一个全高的间隙空间，可以有效地进行此HVAC升级项目。 CCAF HVAC系统是原始的，接近其可靠寿命的尽头。该翻新项目将取代当前的老年组件，并增加系统的冗余和中心惊人。拟议的翻新将确保通过替换老化的HVAC设备，并确保在新设备故障或计划维护期间确保冗余，以确保保持紧密的环境控制，以实现最佳动物健康和福利和可靠的研究数据。一旦升级，该设施将在装修和维护一些较小的校园动物设施中提供空间，在设施中为动物的住房，被认为不是最佳装修，并适应新教师在再生医学，神经科学，神经科学和感染性疾病的领域中的研究，疾病，生物学培训和助理学的分子机制。 MSU是卡内基基金会（Carnegie Foundation）指定为研究扩展大学的公共土地授予机构。 MSU是美国第一个教授科学农业的高等教育机构，提供了200多个研究计划，该计划由17个学位学院提供吸引全球学者提供的研究计划。作为一所综合研究大学，MSU拥有5,000名教职员工，6,300名支持人员，36,400多名本科生和近10,800名毕业生和专业学生。 2009年至2010年的总入学人数超过47,200，使MSU成为美国十大大学之一。