HVAC RENOVATION

暖通空调改造

• 批准号: 7239863
• 负责人: Beverly J. Gnadt
• 金额: $ 70万
• 依托单位: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-15 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7239863
• 关键词: 20 year old; Academic Medical Centers; Accreditation; Address; Age; Air; American; Animal Housing; Animal Model; Animals; Applied Research; Area; Automation; Autopsy; Award; Basic Science; Boxing; Breast; Budgets; Capital; Caring; Cervical; Childhood; Commit; Communicable Diseases; Condition; Containment; Diabetes Mellitus; Ensure; Environmental air flow; Equilibrium; Equipment; Facility Construction Funding Category; Failure; Funding; Future; Genomics; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Sciences; Housing; Humidifier; Humidity; Injury; Institution; International; Laboratories; Laboratory Animals; Laboratory Research; Malignant neoplasm of urinary bladder; Mechanics; Medicine; Monitor; Motor; Neurosciences; Operative Surgical Procedures; Pathogenesis; Phase; Plants; Procedures; Prostate; Quarantine; Range; Recommendation; Recovery Room; Regulation; Research; Research Infrastructure; Rodent; Room, Clean; Services; Signal Transduction; Standards of Weights and Measures; System; Temperature; Time; United States Department of Agriculture; Universities; Wing; angiogenesis; animal care; animal facility; animal resource; anticancer research; comparative; design; exhaust; hormone regulation; improved; interstitial; nervous system disorder; programs; research and development; size

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The general objective of this project is to provide HVAC renovations for a major wing of the Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM) at Georgetown University. The institution has both short term and long term goals to improve and support the animal facility infrastructure. The 25,000 sq. ft. wing (Brown Wing) houses laboratory animals used by 34 basic and clinically applied research laboratories who conduct studies in breast, prostate, cervical and bladder cancer; diabetes; angiogenesis; signaling; hormonal regulation; infectious disease pathogenesis; and neurological disorders and injury. The age and condition of components of the Brown Wing HVAC system drive the need for replacement of the existing exhaust fans, humidifiers, constant volume boxes and the building automation system (BAS). The existing humidifiers and constant volume control boxes are semi-functional and/or inoperable. The 20 year old direct drive exhaust fans are only functioning at 82% design capacity and fan replacement would be difficult in case of motor failure. The original building management system is antiquated, and does not meet University-wide control standards. The University will purchase and install the building management system. The grant will purchase two belt driven exhaust fans, seven zone humidifiers and seven constant volume boxes and support the required renovations to install this equipment in the mechanical interstitial space above the Brown Wing. New HVAC equipment is essential to maintain proper air balancing capability, provide appropriate temperature/humidity levels in animal rooms and improve exhaust capacity, redundancy and servicing. This renovation will safeguard animal health, control research environmental conditions and maintain institutional compliance with recommendations in the Guide for the Care of Use of Laboratory Animals (Guide), the accreditation standards of the American Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC, International) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的总体目标是为乔治城大学比较医学部 (DCM) 的主要翼楼提供暖通空调改造。该机构有改善和支持动物设施基础设施的短期和长期目标。 25,000 平方英尺的侧翼（棕色侧翼）饲养着 34 个基础和临床应用研究实验室使用的实验动物，这些实验室进行乳腺癌、前列腺癌、宫颈癌和膀胱癌的研究；糖尿病;血管生成；信号发送；荷尔蒙调节；传染病发病机制；以及神经系统疾病和损伤。 Brown Wing HVAC 系统组件的老化和状况导致需要更换现有排气扇、加湿器、定容箱和楼宇自动化系统 (BAS)。现有的加湿器和定容控制箱是半功能性的和/或无法操作的。使用了 20 年的直驱排风扇仅能发挥设计容量的 82%，如果电机出现故障，更换风扇将非常困难。原来的建筑管理系统已经过时，不符合大学范围的控制标准。 大学将购买并安装楼宇管理系统。这笔赠款将购买两台皮带驱动排气扇、七个区域加湿器和七个定容箱，并支持在布朗翼上方的机械间隙空间安装该设备所需的改造。新的暖通空调设备对于维持适当的空气平衡能力、在动物房中提供适当的温度/湿度水平以及提高排气能力、冗余和服务至关重要。此次改造将保障动物健康，控制研究环境条件，并保持机构遵守《实验动物使用护理指南》（指南）中的建议，以及美国实验动物护理评估和认证协会（AAALAC）的认证标准、国际）和美国农业部 (USDA) 法规。