New European Approaches to Laboratory Design – Risk-Based Safety Standards and Ultra Flexible Utilities

Mike Dockery, Consultant, Health and Safety Laboratory, United Kingdom

Mike Dockery works as a laboratory architecture and engineering consultant in Great Britain, Italy, and the United States. As a member of the committee that developed the new European standard on fume hoods, Mr. Dockery will summarize the new standard’s requirements and philosophy, which emphasize a move away from precise face velocity and other requirements to a more flexible approach based on risk assessment of the activities being undertaken and their worst case scenarios. Mr. Dockery will also describe current attempts to reconcile the European standard with ASHRAE requirements in the United States. He will then give examples of new flexible architectural and engineering techniques and technologies that have recently been applied in Europe and of their integration into a holistic design approach carried out for several recent laboratory projects.

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