Buildings for Advanced Technology [Paperback]

This book deals with the design and construction of buildings for nanoscale science and engineering research. The information provided in this book is useful for designing and constructing buildings for such advanced technologies as nanotechnology, nanoelectronics and biotechnology. The book outlines the technology challenges unique to each of the building environmental challenges outlined below and provides best practices and examples of engineering approaches to address them:
Establishing and maintaining critical environments: temperature, humidity, and pressure
Structural vibration isolation
Airborne vibration isolation (acoustic noise)
Isolation of mechanical equipment-generated vibration/acoustic noise
Cost-effective power conditioning
Grounding facilities for low electrical interference
Electromagnetic interference (EMI)/Radio frequency interference (RFI) isolation
Airborne particulate contamination
Airborne organic and chemical contamination
Environment, safety and health (ESH) considerations
Flexibility strategies for nanotechnology facilities
The authors are specialists and experts with knowledge and experience in the
control of environmental disturbances to buildings and experimental apparatus.
Introduction.- Design Criteria.- Temperature and Humidity Control.- Vibration Isolation.- Acoustic Noise.- Building Mechanical Systems Disturbances.- Electric Power Grounding and Conditioning.- EMI/RFI: Electromagnetic and Radio-Frequency Interference.- Airborne Contamination.- Bio-containment.- Case Studies and Building Statistics.

Ahmad Soueid is Principal/Senior Vice President for HDR Architecture, Inc. and chair of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) Nanotechnology Working Group which developed an overview document IEST-RP-NANO200, Planning of Nanoscale Science and Technology Facilils·