Renovation of Chandler Laboratories

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，位于哥伦比亚大学校园的钱德勒实验室将进行重大改造，该实验室建于近70年前，最后一次翻修是在40多年后。该项目将更新过时的供暖、通风/排气、配电、管道和消防系统，并翻新化学科学中心最古老的研究部门的研究实验室。这些设施目前容纳了8名教师的研究活动，他们的工作包括合成、物理有机化学、天然产物化学、有机光化学和结构理论，他们的研究活动受到老化和过时系统的限制。该项目将用水力风机盘管系统替换过时和有缺陷的蒸汽散热器，增加空气处理系统的容量，提高通风柜的排气能力以确保适当的安全措施，安装新的配电系统，更换已有67年历史的水、蒸汽、气体和压缩空气管道，建立一个走廊消防分离系统，并拆除所有石棉天花板砖。建筑改造将大大改善8名教师、53名博士后、65名研究生和13名本科生的研究环境。此外，它将大大加强该系为计算机可视化和计算、生物技术和先进材料等主要项目招聘新教员的努力。这些设施将加强这些领域的研究，并加强与其他学术机构以及与制药、计算机和电信行业的研究关系。

Constructed almost seventy years ago and last renovated more than 40 years later, Chandler Laboratories on the Columbia University campus will undergo significant renovation with the support of NSF. The project will renew the obsolete heating, ventilation/exhaust, electrical distribution, plumbing and fire protection systems and renovate research laboratories in the oldest research wing of the Chemical Science Center. The facilities currently house the research activity of eight faculty whose work examines synthesis, physical organic chemistry, the chemistry of natural products, organic photochemistry, and structural theory, and whose research activity has been limited by deteriorating and obsolete systems. The project will replace obsolete and defective steam radiators with a hydronic fan coil system, increase the capacity of air handling systems, boost fume hood exhaust capacity to assure appropriate safety measures, install a new electric distribution system, replace 67-year old plumbing for water, steam, gas and compressed air, build a corridor fire separation system, and remove all asbestos ceiling tiles. Building renovations will substantially improve the research environment for 8 faculty, and the 53 post docs, 65 graduate students, and 13 undergraduates who work with them. In addition, it will significantly enhance the department's effort to recruit new faculty to premier projects in computer-based visualization and computation, biotechnology, and advanced materials. The facilities will strengthen research in these areas and research relationships with other academic institutions and with the pharmaceutical, computer and telecommunications industries.