ANIMAL RESOURCE IMPROVEMENT GRANT

本申请所申请的款项将用于翻新 18,000平方米的通风系统。英国《金融时报》中央动物护理设施 并为中央动物护理中心安装应急电源 俄勒冈健康科学大学的设施。 增加了一个应急电源和一个翻新的 通风系统将完成为期10年的动物护理改造 计划，以满足护理和使用指南的新标准 实验动物。 动物保护部的办公面积为18000平方英尺。中区 俄勒冈州健康科学大学校园里的动物护理设施。 O.H.S.U的动物护理设施是AAALAC认证的；然而， 有26年历史的设施需要持续翻新才能充分 维护《护理指南》中描述的物理设备标准 和使用实验动物。 这个项目的长期目标是提供足够的 不受电力影响的通风动物环境 应急发电机发生故障。(通风设备包括在 应急电源。) 由于目前设施的边际通风，动物 房间不能容纳它们设计的动物种群 原本是要拿着的。如果拟议的通风升级是 资金，那么更多的动物可以被安置在中央设施中 比目前能容纳的更多。 这个完全翻新的动物设施现在将达到标准 并为两种动物提供舒适和安全的环境 和动物护理人员在未来生活和工作。

The funds requested in this application will be used to renovate the ventilation system for the 18,000 sq. ft. central animal care facility and install an emergency power supply for the central animal care facility at Oregon Health Sciences University. The addition of an emergency power supply and a renovated ventilation system will complete the 10 year animal care renovation program to meet the new standards for the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The Department of Animal Care operates from a 18,000 sq.ft. central animal care facility on the Oregon Health Sciences University Campus. The O.H.S.U. animal care facilities are AAALAC accredited; however, the twenty six year old facility requires continual renovation to adequately maintain the physical plant standards described in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The long term objective of this project is to provide an adequately ventilated animal environment that is protected from an electrical power failure by an emergency power generator. (Ventilation is included on emergency power.) Because of the current marginal ventilation in the facility, animal rooms can not house the population of animals that they were designed originally to hold. If the proposed upgrade in the ventilation is funded, then many more animals can be housed in the central facility at O.H.S.U. than can be currently housed. This completely renovated animal facility will now meet the standard of the and provide a comfortable and safe environment for both animals and animal care personnel to live and work in the future.