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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
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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?
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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
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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?
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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?
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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!
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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.
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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.
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What about our SCADA Operation ?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Questions
We can be reached at
(231)-347-2500.