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Biomedical Polymers Research Facility
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
 
This 130,000 sq. ft. facility includes research laboratories, animal holding areas, surgical procedures rooms and administration areas. The state-of-the-art biomedical research building combines the medical and electronic aspects of medical research.

The interior was fitted and styled with bio-safety hood units, emergency wash areas, medical gas, labs with movement sensitive equipment, electronic microscopes, technical testing areas, administrative offices, classrooms, and one inch thick acoustic wall panels.

The mechanical system serves labs with piped gases, pure water systems, fume hood exhaust systems, and acid waste piping systems. This building is designed on a modular approach basis which allows for easy modification of lab spaces to the ever changing research needs.

The labs were designed as variable volume with constant volume bypass fume hoods utilizing Phoenix exhaust valves. This approach provides the energy

Biomedical Polymers Research Facility
savings of a variable volume system with the safety of a constant volume fume hood exhaust system. As an energy conservation measure, the hoods were retrofitted a few years ago with proximity sensors to reduce exhaust rates to 60% of design flows when no one is near the hood.
 
This facility houses the following research activities:
Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery
Center for Human Toxicology
Anticonvulsant Drug Development
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Orthopedic Implants
Pharmacology and Toxicology Department
Robotic Mapping of the Human Gnome
Percutaneous Absorption and Metabolism
Artificial Hearts
Center for Biopolymers at Interfaces
Center for Bioengineering Design
 
 

 

 
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