Laboratories: A Briefing and Design Guide (Briefing and Design Guides) - Softcover

Hain, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0419194800 ISBN 13: 9780419194804

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1994

Synopsis

This book provides internationally applicable and updated information on the design of laboratories. It is a practical guide for the team responsible for the design and construction of laboratories, especially for newcomers to these activities.

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Synopsis

This valuable guide provides design teams new to laboratories with vertually all the information they need to undertake the briefing and design processes. Laboratory design principles are explained clearly and information is presented in a logical sequence that follows design procedures. Individual chapters discuss the spatial requirements of different types of laboratory, the systems used to fit them out, the equipment used in them, the engineering services they need anad their building fabric requirements. In highlighting the information needs of the design team the book also serves as a useful checklist, both for designers and for those briefing them. The increasing introduction for new technologies creates a continuing demand for spaces equipped to carry out the new research procedures that these technologies require. Laboratories provide such spaces. New laboratories will therefore continue to be needed in the technically advanced countries, where there is also likely to be a substantial need for the complete refurbishment of many existing laboratories whose standards are no longer acceptable.

Laboratories provides internationally applicable and updated information on the design of laboratories. It is a practical guide for the team responsible for the design and construction of laboratories, especially for newcomers to these activities. It informs those responsible for briefing designers of the latters' information needs and acts as a checklist for designers and for those briefing them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0419194800
• ISBN 13: 9780419194804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144