As well as the physical components, Ikea have also created their own ecosystem..
This equipment is often heavily serviced, so the services take priority; perhaps much more so than in other building types.It’s the services engineer’s responsibility to coordinate the disciplines and disseminate information to all the relevant parties to ensure their services can be properly provided..
Following a review of the functional spaces, we will set out the basis of laboratory design in zoning diagrams for the different rooms, including any ISO or GMP requirements, pressure regimes, temperatures, air change rates, lux levels, circuit zoning, and keep all this information on a set of drawings.These types of drawings are often created at RIBA Stage 2 then never carried through the project, but it’s vital information which develops the basis for the calculations and lab design.For labs we will therefore update this drawing at every design stage and use for quick reference..
Maintaining the client lab equipment list with all the necessary services is a must.As the information becomes more detailed, the list should be updated to reflect the latest information.
Most issues we come across on a project are due to missing services or undefined duties within the laboratory equipment list.. Labs without extracting equipment can follow the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) guidance for air change rates, with supplementary cooling required from internal units such as fan coil units.
For spaces requiring close temperature control, we do not use refrigerant-to- air cooling..Currently, trust in the planning system is at a low.
If we can help people feel more in control of what they’re being consulted on, and give them a better sense of what a development will really look like, it should help to alleviate a lot of concern.. At present, ten Pathfinder projects are being undertaken by various local authorities.All of them are looking at how to digitise planning policy, and make it more machine readable.
Local plans take years for councils to produce, and are based on evidence which is out of date almost as soon as it’s put into use, and definitely by the time the plan is published years later.Digitising the planning system will help us to start producing policies based on real time evidence.
(Editor: Elegant Smart Thermometers)