Planning a New Chemistry Building Hand-in-Hand with Health and Safety: Starting From a Conservative View (Air Volume 100 Percent), Dreaming of the Ideal (Air Volume 45 Percent), and Designing with Ambition (Air Volume <60 Percent)
Paul Lodewijckx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven)
In a chemistry building, the design parameters of the fume hoods are of course the driving factors for the building. While programming and predesigning a new chemistry building (+200 fume hoods), the speaker sought ways to reduce the air volume without compromising health and safety. During the presentation, the speaker will show how, in different steps, it was possible to reduce the air volume to less than 60 percent of a more standard, conservative viewpoint. These steps work on classic topics such as size, airspeed, diversity, working height, and room ventilation.
Biography:
Paul Lodewijckx graduated in 1994 as an architectural engineer from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium. After a two-year practice at Abscis Ontwerpgroep, Ghent, Mr. Lodewijckx joined the technical services of K.U.Leuven as a project manager. Mr. Lodewijckx has been head of the laboratories division since 2003 and the project portfolio of his group consists out of a wide range of projects, including biotech laboratories, vivaria, chemistry laboratories, nanotechnology laboratories, and student laboratories.
Mr. Lodewijckx was a speaker at several seminars and co-organizer of the first Labs21 Europe "mainland" seminar in April 2007. Mr. Lodewijckx is a co-founder and board member of EGNATON, the European association for sustainable laboratories.