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EBSA18 - Course K - Design and construction of high containment facilities - A look behind the walls

Monday, 20 April 2015 09:00 - Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:00 (CET) EBSACourse , 2015

Instructors
Maria Fink, PhD, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Mödling, Austria
Philippe Stroot, PhD, Xibios Biosafety Consulting, Tournai, Belgium
Mark Wheatley, Eng., Environment & Serivces Ltd, Lelant St. Ives, Cornwall, UK

Description
This advanced and highly interactive course on design and construction of high containment facilities takes advantage of the unique opportunity to "look behind the walls" of a brand new BSL3+ laboratory facility to explore and discuss containment concepts as well as a number of technical options that may reveal critical focal points for effective containment.

Main topics
Topics will be developed on the basis of the reactions and questions to the visit according to the needs and interests of the audience. Examples of topics are:

  • Containment concepts, personell and material circulation flows
  • Room decontamination, waste treatment, effluent decontamination
  • Structural aspects of the building
  • Doors, interlocking, penetrations, finishes
  • Safe maintenance and validation operations
  • Business continuity: redundancy, flexibility, resilience
  • Fire protection and management of emergencies
  • Biosecurity
  • Project management issues, in particular commissioning and validation