CENTRAL CAGE WASH CONSTRUCTION AND NECROPSY RENOVATION

此应用程序请求支持计划的更改和翻新 将在约翰·霍普金斯医疗机构进行。两大 项目也包括在内。一是重新配置和改造 目前用作实验室的空间，以提供扩展和集中的 笼子清洗和人员支持区域。这些设施及其 需要相关的固定设备来支持动物护理空间 已经存在于医学院泰勒研究大楼中 同时也考虑到对未来服务的需求 由17,000平方英尺的动物收容所产生 毗邻的拉特兰大道大楼正在施工。这些集中的 实验动物服务设施现在允许整合项目 在机构的其他部分到位，并允许显著的 提高可向大型动物提供的动物护理水平 将从事这项新研究的生物医学研究人员的数量 大楼于1991年竣工。在占领这一地区的团体中 大楼将是调查和诊断实验室 比较医学部。这些都将被移到新的 除了动物身体解剖设施以外的结构。尽管它 不会被搬走，这个设施需要升级和改进 以反映当前的健康和安全标准。因此，提出了请求 对于向下拔模的尸检台，向下拔模修剪区域，并更换 现有的木质橱柜更合适，更耐消毒 不透水的表面。这一设施是 实验动物医学组的诊断程序； 改进后的设施将比以前的设施更合适 目前正在使用中。这两个项目都反映了一种协调一致的方法 完善和提升医疗机构内的动物设施。 在过去五年中，该机构在以下方面花费了400多万美元 国会与实验室动物护理计划相关的改进，以及 现在在上述额外空间的基础上扩大340万美元。

This application requests support alterations and renovations scheduled to be carried out in the John Hopkins Medical Institutions. Two major projects are included. The first is reconfiguration and renovation of space currently used as laboratories to provide expanded and centralized cage wash and personnel support areas. These facilities and their associated fixed equipment are needed to support animal care space which already exists in the Taylor Research Building of the School of Medicine and also in anticipation of the needs for the services which will be generated by 17,000 square feet of animal housing facilities now under construction in the adjoining Rutland Avenue Building. These centralized laboratory animal services facilities allows consolidation of programs now in place in other parts of the institution and permit a significant upgrading in the level of animal care that can be provided to large numbers of biomedical researchers who will be occupying the new research building when it is completed in 1991. Among the groups to occupy this building will be the investigative and diagnostic laboratories of the Division of Comparative Medicine. These will all be moved to the new structure with the exception of the animal autopsy facility. Although it will not be moved, this facility is in need of upgrading and improvement to reflect the current health and safety standards. Thus, request is made for down-draft autopsy tables, a down-draft trimming area, and replacement of existing wooden cabinets with more appropriate and sanitizable impervious surfaces. This facility is a critical element in the diagnostic programs of the laboratory animal medicine group; the improvement will result in a much more appropriate facility than the one currently in use. Both these projects reflect a coordinated approach to improving and upgrading animal facilities within the medical institutions. Over the past five years the institution has spent over $4 million on capitol improvements related to the laboratory animal care program and is now expanding $3.4 million on the additional space noted above.