What Solutions Can We Take Away From Designing and Engineering High Risk Laboratory Environments and at What Costs?

Jon Crane, AIA, CUH2A

Mission critical facilities such as biocontainment laboratories have both real and perceived risks related to man-made and natural disasters. These facilities are developed around models and protocols for preparedness and response to many emergency conditions. This talk will address issues related to:

• The design and construction of these facilities to facilitate preparation and mitigate risk
• Community relations issues in separating the real from perceived risks
• New tools for risk assessment of these and other unique facilities

Biography:

Jon Crane is an architect and biocontainment specialist with CUH2A, Architecture, Engineering, and Planning in Atlanta, GA. Jon has been involved in over one hundred BSL-3 or BSL-4 containment facilities (or their equivalent in countries other than the U.S.). Included are major containment facilities for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DoD), academic institutions, and corporations. He has also been involved internationally in major facilities in the UK, continental Europe, states of the former Soviet Union, and Asia.

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