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The Evolution to a New LaboratoryWhat I know now- that I wish I knew then
Sherrie Elliott Public Works Supervisor
Chad Bradley Public Works Technician
How to plan for a new laboratory
• Think of your new lab as a blank page.
• Think outside the box .
• If using the same space, think where is everything relocated.
• If adding space, what are you going to do?
• Are you adding new equipment?
Rethinking the space- What is the focal point of your building
What do you what?
• Lab
• Bathroom- 2
• Conference Area
• Locker rooms
• Storage
What do you have?
• Lab
• Bathroom/ locker room
• Polymer room
• Office
• Electrical room
• Lunch /conference room
• SCADA office
• Chemical
room.
• Sample room
• Electrical room
• Office area
• SCADA office
Who should you involve?
• Your Engineer
• Architect
• Electrical Engineer
• IT Department
• Operators
• How do you work the space?
• What do you need for power?
• Do you want additional storage?
• Do you need data ports?
• Do you need or want surge
protection?
Other things to think about.
• Ventilation
• Fume Hoods
• Outlets
• Data Ports / Data Screens
• Gas- Air-Vacuum ports
• Communication devices
• Charging stations (cellphones or
USB sites)
• Colors- Texture- DURABILITY
• Are you keeping the same
furniture or buying new?
• Are you adding file cabinets?
• Are you adding work stations?
• How many safety eye washes or
showers are needed?
Space -The final frontier
• Visualize where you think you
want your lab equipment.
• Measure your lab equipment!
• Measure the space for your lab
equipment
• Re-measure your equipment
We had 6
different
floor plans
before we
found the
one that
worked
best for us.
And we still
modified it!
How do you meet compliance with the NPDES while the new lab is being built?
• Lab on wheels.
• Expensive
• Utilize another part of the building
as the lab.
• Keeping temps
• Ventilation
• Area to do lab work
• Outsourcing the work.
• What equipment can you keep or
what can go into storage?
• Where can items be put in safe
storage.
• Good time to clean the old lab of
unused equipment.
• Think about new lab equipment
for the new lab.
Staying in Compliance with both labs
Wastewater
• Wastewater NPDES Permit
• What analysis is staying on site.
• Inform the MDEQ( EGLE) of the
transition.
• What equipment will be in storage?
• How do we replace the function of stored equipment?
• What is our lab back - up plan?
Drinking water
• Informing our customers of the upcoming construction.
• Informed our customers of other locations for sample analysis.
• Finding another location for our BT sampling.
• What about positive samples?
• Notifying MDEQ Greg Lundy of our plans and maintaining our program.
What about our SCADA Operation ?
What was SHE thinking?????
• Getting the lab packed up.
• Going through the lab
equipment.
• What was that used for?
• Stuff we have never seen or
used!
• Deciding what to pack for the
temporary lab.
• Figuring how to temporary
move SCADA and WHERE.
Cleaning out the lab
• We started early knowing we had
to do it.
• Tried to evaluate what we would
need.
• What would be in short term storage?
• What went into long term storage.
• Lab equipment, furniture and files were in different locations.
• Called other facilities regarding our
surplus.
Planning • From Lab 1- 427 square feet
• To Lab 2 -163 square feet
• NPDES permit testing
• BOD5
• Suspended Solids
• Total Phosphorus’
• Ammonium Nitrogen
• pH, D.O., fecal coliform, process
control, and VAA.
• DMR studies to content with.
• Water Sampling samplings
• WS studies.
• SCADA in the room
Tiny Lab living
• Two operators- Lab and Operations
• Keeping both the WWTP and Water
System going.
• Maintaining temperature in lab
• Dust with construction in the room
next to our lab.
• Started early to get lab done while
dealing with the construction.
• Administration is separate trailer.
Our Lab Layouts- Decision making. What goes where?
Lab 1
• All probe work
• All wet chemistry
• All water chemistry
• Water Lab- BT station
Lab 2
• All solids tests
• pH probe
• VAA test
Moving Back • Set-up a few pieces of equipment each day.
• Put supplies near equipment.
• Have one person set-up lab equipment , for
consistency.
• Test equipment as it is set into place.
• Pick an official start date.
What would we do differently?
• One central battery back up.
• Not have ventilation duct work
over lab benches or near critical
test or lab equipment
• Still working on computer SCADA
update.
• Structure how many drawers to
cabinets.
• Update lab water system. To a
RO system, in lab 1 and lab 2.
• Pick a different HVAC system
for both the lab and the
treatment plant
Questions
We can be reached at
(231)-347-2500.
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