BMELaboratoryModifications

-- BobVitale? - 27 Aug 2007

Table of Contents

Personnel & Roles

Name	email	Title
Phil Berman	pwb@soe.ucsc.edu	Professor & BME Dept Chair
Todd Lowe	todd@soe.ucsc.edu	Professor & PI
Mark Akeson	makeson@chemistry.ucsc.edu	PI
Bob Vitale	rvitale@soe.ucsc.edu	SOE lab & facilities director
Berman Lab	BE-292, 288
	@soe.ucsc.edu	Berman Lab Manager
Sara O'Rourke	smo@soe.ucsc.edu	BME Research Associate

BME Lab Meeting Notes and Updates

• July 6, 2007
• June 22, 2007
• June 12-15, 2007
• May 29, 2007
• May 18, 2007
• May 11, 2007
• May 4, 2007
• April 27 2007
• April 20 2007
• April 13 2007
• April 4 2007

BME Common Equipment Listing and Budget

• BME-CommonEquipment-R0-1.xls: BME Common Equipment Spreadsheet 3/27/07 -updated with RO/DI filter costs
• BME-CommonEquipment-R0.xls: BME Common Equipment Spreadsheet 3/27/07

• Status (3/27/07): Autoclave, Glasswasher are purchased. Assoc Dean provided budget for project, additional purchases underway.

Biomedical Engineering Dept Laboratory Modifications (by room)

BE202 AUTOCLAVE AND GLASS WASHER ROOM ("KITCHEN")

Click on the above link for details. This room provides common equipment for glass washing, autoclave and glass dryer. An area for making solutions is also planned. A couple of faculty refrigrators may be located here. Icemaker will be located in BE-281.

BE202A? Cold Room

Located within BE202, the Cold Room is a special purpose room. Door to room has window that is heated to prevent fogging.

BE201 & 201A - Mark Akeson

Item	Room	Description	Notes
1	Rm 201	Track lighting	Continuous Eastwest power strip attached to south side of soffit. Lights to be directed south.
2	Rm 201	nat gas	Install natural gas service to bench on right side of fume hood. Cost estimate is $5592.00 based on 4/24 email from Ken Filice for Berman Labs Island Bench Connections, which was 2 labs.
3	Rm201A?	furniture	Move existing lab table out. Provide two desks (work stations).
4	Rm 202	equipment	Place -70 freezer in Rm 280.
5	201	painting	Paint blue wall to match yellow wall in BE 202.
6	201	bench for W. Dunbar	Bill Dunbar assigned one bench against east wall.
7	201 & 201A	ventilation noise	Ventilation exhaust noise will distrupt sensitive readings if not eliminated. Dean Ricker has installed a flex duct with sound absorbing inner layer on one duct as experiment. It appears to work but only one duct has been replaced so far.
8	201	task lighting	Install lighting under shelving on both sides of both island benches and under shelves next to fume hood. DC looked at some inexpensive ones, 3 sizes of metal shelves 57in (have 33in & 27 in long - no hollow cavities. Need false bottom to mount lights to. Fisher Hamilton may have lights available for these. Need to talk with a rep.
9	Rm 201	furniture	move two existing 72" benches along east wall out of the way but keep them in Rm 201.
10	201	power	In general, equipment will not need alarms but will use backup power.
11	201	Carrels	Cable lock downs for equipment.
12	201	Lab stools	added later = unknown type and cost, Kathryn Hudson bought Fisher-Scientific stools

July 5 email to Ken Filice on gas service to BE 205 & 201 Ken,

I've attached PDFs of four BME labs 201, 205, 288 and 292 for Kenny of George Wilson. They show the locations of the various gas services.

CO2 SERVICE:

To confirm our discussion in Rm 288, we would like a pressure gauge on the CO2 line where it enters Rm 288.

We need pressure regulators at the points of termination. The CONCOA 405 series single stage brass line regulator was recommended by Praxair, but an equal substitution is OK. (www.concoa.com)

We want to terminate at the incubators with a Swagelok quarter turn valve with a compression fitting. The thread should be mated to a hose fitting, and vinyl tubing will be the last leg.

According to the Praxair technical representative, if the copper line feeding the room is 1/2", it will need to be stepped down to 1/4" piping at the termination points.

At the Biosafety Cabinets you will be connecting the CO2 line to the plugged penetration on the right hand side of the cabinet as we pointed out this morning. The interior connection should receive a petcock with hose fitting. The exterior connection is CGA 320 (you should confirm).

Let me know if George Wilson wants contact information for the Praxair technical specialist.

RMS 201 AND 205

When we toured Rms 201 and 205 this morning I should have said that Rm 205 would get gas to the island benches and 201 would get gas next to the fume hood rather than the other way around. The drawings show the correct locations for natural gas service in Rams 201 and 205.

Thanks. Randy

BE205 & 205 A Todd Lowe

Item	Room	Description	Notes
1	Rm 205	Power	One 208V duplex for non-freezer equipment. On backup power (confirm). No alarm needed.
2	Rm 205	Power	Two 110V duplex receptacles for -20 deg freezers. On backup power. No alarm needed.
2a	205 & 201	Power	Do not eliminate existing 120V circuits
3	Rm 205A	Power	One 208V receptacle for -80 deg. freezer. On backup power. Needs alarm.
4	205	island benches	Gas to both island benches. Two turrets on each bench. Cost estimate is $5592.00 based on 4/24 email from Ken Filice for Berman Labs Island Bench Connections, which was for 2 rooms.
5	205	island benches	Task lighting under lower shelves
6	205	Storage cabinet	Additional cabinet. Lab quality construction but wood not needed. Same size as existing.
7	205	Carrels	Cable lockdowns for equipment.
7a	205	Carrels	cable pass-through holes in the desk tops
8	205	Painting	blue wall to be painted yellow, the same color as Rm 202 yellow.
9	205	Phones	all three lines the same number. Use 9-5128 if possible.
10	205	Furniture	Lab stools with backs. Number to be determined. See what Phil getting. No fabric.
11	205	carrels	Remove partition between knee spaces if possible.
12	205	ventilation noise	Ventilation exhaust noise will distrupt sensitive readings if not eliminated. Dean Ricker has installed a flex duct with sound absorbing inner layer on one duct as experiment. It appears to work.
13	201	Lab stools	added later = unknown type and cost, Kathryn Hudson bought Fisher-Scientific stools

BE206, 207 & 208 Nader Pourmand

July 19, 2007 design meeting. Jack Emerson of GLP architects met with Bob V, RP, Prof. Pourmand, Julianna Erickson and one other staff member. Layout, services and other design issues for Rms 206, 207 & 208 were discussed at length. Rm 206 layout of benches will remain essentially as shown in original design, with minor modifications.

A 6' fume hood will be added to Rm 206. The island benches will have air, vacuum and gas service. 2 existing backup power circuits will remain on east wall and one will be relocated to south wall. Chemicals will be stored in a cabinet underneath the fume hood.

Rm 208 will house freezers and other equipment. Rm 208 has no backup power. Cylinder rack will be reduced to hold 2 cyl, possibly perpendicular to wall. 208V power in Rm 208 will be needed in northwest corner.

Rm 207 will house a 4' x 6' air table. The air pressure in the room is positive to the corridor, which is what is required.

BE288 & BE292 Complex Berman Labs

Click on the above link for information on these labs. Phil Berman's labs occupy the following rooms, BE288, 288A, 292, 292A.

BE280 BME Common Equipment ROOM ("Freezer Room")

BE281 BME Common Equipment ROOM ("Ice Room")?

BE283 BME Common Equipment ROOM ("????")?

BE285 BME Common Equipment ROOM ("Small Equipment Room")?

BE287, 287A - Unassigned

Sinsheimer 142 & 144 Camilla Forsberg Lab

Click on the above link for details. This is a 4 bay lab located in Sinsheimer Lab Building. The lab is mostly built out however some lab funiture is needed and some modifications are requested.