HVAC system replacement and upgrade

暖通空调系统更换和​​升级

• 批准号: 7434816
• 负责人: THOMAS E ZIMMERMAN
• 金额: $ 49.7万
• 依托单位: BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOC-BROOKHAVEN LAB
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7434816
• 关键词: Aging; Air Conditioning; Alzheimer' s Disease; Animal Experimentation; Animal Housing; Animals; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Condition; Diagnosis; Disease; Ensure; Environmental air flow; Equipment; Funding; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Goals; Grant; Health; Heating; Heavy Ions; Human; Humidity; Image; Institution; Ionizing radiation; Laboratories; Malignant Neoplasms; Modality; Modeling; Monitor; Neurologic; Parkinson Disease; Physiological; Radiation therapy; Range; Services; Support of Research; System; Temperature; Work; addiction; animal care; animal facility; improved; programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this grant is to replace a Heating-Ventilation-Air Conditioning (HVAC) unit and upgrade the environmental control and monitoring systems that are used to service the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) animal facility. The institution has both short and long term goals to improve animal care and the services that support the research program. Thirty-five basic and clinically applied laboratories plus many outside users conduct animal research in experimental radiotherapy; in developing new imaging modalities to diagnose and treat cancers, studying the neurological effects of many diseases including addiction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other aging diseases and determining genetic susceptibilities to these maladies; and in exploring the physiological effects of heavy ion, ionizing radiation. The uniqueness of the experimental equipment available at the BNL makes much of this work impossible to do anywhere else in the world. An adequately functioning HVAC system is critical to the ability of the animal facility staff to maintain proper environmental conditions, not only to meet regulatory requirements but to assure that the scientific information obtained from these animals is reliable and repeatable and can be applied to the human conditions they are modeling. The requested funding will be used to purchase a replacement HVAC unit, replacement of all the associated humidification units, and installation of new temperature and humidity monitoring and control systems. These upgrades are necessary to maintain the aging animal facility's environmental parameters within the ranges necessary not only for regulatory requirements but to ensure optimum health of the animals housed within the facility.

描述（由申请人提供）：该赠款的目的是替换供暖通风空调（HVAC）单元，并升级用于为布鲁克黑文国家实验室（BNL）动物设施服务的环境控制和监测系统。该机构具有改善动物护理和支持研究计划的服务的短期和长期目标。 35个基本和临床应用实验室以及许多外部用户在实验放射疗法方面进行动物研究；在开发新的成像方式以诊断和治疗癌症，研究许多疾病的神经系统作用，包括成瘾，注意力缺陷多动障碍，帕金森氏症，阿尔茨海默氏症和其他衰老疾病，并确定对这些疾病的遗传敏感性；并在探索重离子的生理影响时，电离辐射。 BNL可用的实验设备的独特性使这项工作中的大部分无法做到世界其他任何地方。充分运作的HVAC系统对于动物设施工作人员维持适当环境条件的能力至关重要，不仅要满足监管要求，而且要确保从这些动物获得的科学信息可靠且可重复，并且可以应用于他们建模的人类条件。 要求的资金将用于购买替换HVAC单元，更换所有相关的加湿单元，以及安装新的温度和湿度监控和控制系统。这些升级对于维持老化动物设施的环境参数不仅需要监管要求所需的范围，而且要确保设施中所需的动物的最佳健康所需的范围。