GREEN LABORATORY DESIGN
Laboratories consume more energy per square foot than any other type of construction. A single eight foot chemical fume hood consumes more than $7,000.00 of energy every year (see
http://fumehoodcalculator.lbl.gov/index.php). And clean rooms can be 100 times more energy intensive than convential office space buildings.
It is great to save energy and money; however, good laboratory cannot compromise safety in that effort. Personal safety has always been and shall remain the number one design criteria. What if both safety and efficiency could be part of your new laboratory?
Several approaches have been developed to deliver better user protection and more energy efficiency. Some of these look great on paper; however, in practice they have proven to be less than ideal. A newer fume hood technology developed in the late 1990’s has proven to extremely successful – the High Performance Laboratory Fume Hood.
The Flow Safe High Performance Chemical Fume Hood is the gold standard in fume hoods providing a measurable step forward in containment and energy efficiency. The Flow Safe High Performance Hood Technology is available complete as a new chemical hood or as an upgrade for exisiting hoods. Explore the approach that is improving laboratory safety, saving owners substantial first cost investment and long-term operational costs.