MSU Clinical Center Animal Facility HVAC Upgrade

密歇根州立大学临床中心动物设施 HVAC 升级

• 批准号: 8185686
• 负责人: Joseph R Haywood
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2014-08-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8185686
• 关键词: Age; Aging; Agriculture; Air Conditioning; Animal Experimentation; Animal Housing; Animals; Area; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Research; Clinical; Communicable Diseases; Data; Disease; Ecology; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Enrollment; Ensure; Environmental air flow; Equipment; Equipment Malfunction; Exercise; Facility Designs; Faculty; Floor; Foundations; Funding; Future; Gastroenterology; Grant; Growth; Health; Heating; Height; Housing; Institution; Investments; Laboratory Animals; Learning; Longevity; Maintenance; Michigan; Molecular; Neurosciences; Regenerative Medicine; Research; Research Support; Social Welfare; Students; System; Time; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; aged; animal care; animal facility; base; college; cost; flexibility; interstitial; member; microbial; programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary: Michigan State University (MSU) is currently undertaking a master planning exercise to ensure that state-of- the-art facilities continue to be used to house laboratory animals for research and teaching. Several of the laboratory animal facilities are reaching the age where they will require upgrades and the institution will make selective investments based on the use, condition and long-term viability of the facility, thus not all facilities will continue to be invested in resulting in discontinued use for animal housing. An initial conclusion from this study is that our premier animal care facility, the Clinical Center Animal Facility (CCAF), will require renovation of the engineering systems. The CCAF is the major laboratory animal facility at MSU used to support the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research. Following these upgrades the facility will support the research of over 46 faculty members. MSU will match the NIH funding in excess of a 3:1 ratio. The proposed project focuses on upgrading the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system of the CCAF. Although almost 35 years old, the CCAF is an extremely well-designed facility. The layout of the facility is flexible to accommodate a wide variety of research and can be expanded horizontally or vertically for future growth. There is a full height interstitial space above each of the floors allowing this HVAC upgrade project to be carried out cost effectively. The CCAF HVAC system is original and nearing the end of its reliable lifespan. This renovation project will replace the current aged components, and add redundancy and central alarming of the system. The proposed renovation will ensure that tight environmental controls are maintained for optimal animal health and welfare and reliable research data, by replacing the aging HVAC equipment and ensuring redundancy should the new equipment malfunction or during times of planned maintenance. Once upgraded, this facility will provide space during renovation and maintenance of some of the smaller campus animal facilities, housing for animals in facilities deemed not optimal to renovate, and to accommodate the research of new faculty in the areas of regenerative medicine, neuroscience, and infectious disease, molecular mechanisms of disease, biomedical engineering and gastroenterology /microbial ecology. MSU is a public, land-grant institution designated as a Research-Extensive university by the Carnegie Foundation. The first institution of higher learning in the United States to teach scientific agriculture, MSU offers more than 200 programs of study offered by 17 degree-granting colleges that attract scholars worldwide. As a comprehensive research university, MSU has 5,000 faculty and academic staff, 6,300 support staff, more than 36,400 undergraduate and nearly 10,800 graduate and professional students. Total enrollment for 2009- 2010 exceeded 47,200, making MSU one of the ten largest universities in the United States.

项目概述：密歇根州立大学（MSU）目前正在进行一项总体规划工作，以确保最先进的设施继续用于饲养实验动物进行研究和教学。一些实验动物设施已达到需要升级的年龄，机构将根据设施的使用、状况和长期可行性进行选择性投资，因此并非所有设施都将继续投资，从而导致动物住房的停止使用。从这项研究得出的初步结论是，我们的首要动物护理设施，临床中心动物设施（CCAF），将需要改造工程系统。CCAF是密歇根州立大学主要的实验动物设施，用于支持生物医学和行为研究的开展。在这些升级之后，该设施将支持超过46名教职员工的研究。密歇根州立大学将以超过3:1的比例匹配NIH的资金。建议工程的重点是改善中央空调中心的暖气、通风及空调系统。虽然近35年的历史，CCAF是一个非常精心设计的设施。该设施的布局是灵活的，以适应各种各样的研究，可以横向或纵向扩展，以适应未来的发展。每层楼上都有一个全高的间隙空间，使这个暖通空调升级项目能够以经济有效的方式进行。CCAF暖通空调系统是原始的，接近其可靠寿命的终点。本次改造项目将更换现有老化部件，增加系统冗余和中央报警功能。拟议的改造将通过更换老化的暖通空调设备并确保在新设备出现故障或计划维修期间冗余，确保严格的环境控制，以确保最佳的动物健康和福利以及可靠的研究数据。一旦升级，该设施将为一些较小的校园动物设施的翻新和维护提供空间，为那些被认为不适合翻新的设施中的动物提供住房，并为再生医学、神经科学、传染病、疾病分子机制、生物医学工程和胃肠病学/微生物生态学等领域的新教师提供研究场所。密歇根州立大学是一所由卡内基基金会指定为研究型大学的公共赠地机构。作为美国第一所教授科学农业的高等学府，密歇根州立大学由17个授予学位的学院提供200多个学习项目，吸引了世界各地的学者。作为一所综合性研究型大学，密歇根州立大学有5,000名教职员工，6,300名后勤人员，36,400多名本科生和近10,800名研究生和专业学生。2009年至2010年的总入学人数超过47200人，使密歇根州立大学成为美国十大大学之一。