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工作，以确保继续使用最先进的设施来饲养实验动物以进行研究和教学。一些实验动物设施已达到需要升级的年龄，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会继续投资，从而导致停产用于动物圈舍。这项研究的初步结论是，我们首要的动物护理设施，即临床中心动物设施 (CCAF)，将需要对工程系统进行改造。 CCAF 是密歇根州立大学的主要实验动物设施，用于支持生物医学和行为研究的进行。完成这些升级后，该设施将支持超过 46 名教职员工的研究。 MSU 将以超过 3:1 的比例与 NIH 提供资金匹配。拟议项目的重点是升级 CCAF 的供暖、通风和空调 (HVAC) 系统。尽管已有近 35 年的历史，CCAF 仍然是一个设计极其精良的设施。该设施的布局灵活，可以容纳各种研究，并且可以水平或垂直扩展以适应未来的发展。每层楼上方都有一个全高的间隙空间，使该暖通空调升级项目能够经济高效地进行。 CCAF HVAC 系统是原创的，并且其可靠使用寿命已接近尾声。该改造项目将更换目前老化的部件，并增加系统的冗余和中央报警功能。拟议的改造将通过更换老化的暖通空调设备并在新设备发生故障或计划维护期间确保冗余，确保维持严格的环境控制，以实现最佳的动物健康和福利以及可靠的研究数据。升级后，该设施将为一些较小的校园动物设施的翻新和维护提供空间，在被认为不适合翻新的设施中为动物提供住房，并容纳再生医学、神经科学和神经科学领域的新教师的研究。传染病、疾病分子机制、生物医学工程和胃肠病学/微生物生态学。密歇根州立大学是一所公立赠地机构，被卡内基基金会指定为研究型大学。 MSU 是美国第一所教授科学农业的高等教育机构，由 17 个授予学位的学院提供 200 多个学习项目，吸引了全世界的学者。作为一所综合性研究型大学，密歇根州立大学拥有 5,000 名教职员工和学术人员、6,300 名支持人员、超过 36,400 名本科生以及近 10,800 名研究生和专业学生。 2009-2010 年的总入学人数超过 47,200 人，使密歇根州立大学成为美国最大的十所大学之一。