Hospitals appear to be on their own when it comes to preventive maintenance of laboratory ventilation systems. Although hospital labs are highly regulated, government agencies and voluntary ...

In the second reported major incident in recent days of mishandled hazardous materials at University of California-run Los Alamos National Laboratory, a lab employee was hospitalized for six days with ...

A colleague of mine was the project manager on a commissioning project for a build-out at a five-story, 150,000-sq-ft laboratory building at a large university. The commissioning team was finding it ...

The laboratories on Northwestern’s campus turn out cutting edge research, and they also use a lot of energy. Labs are particularly energy hungry spaces due to the need to run energy intensive ...

The state fined New Haven Public Schools $14,200 following an inspection of Metropolitan Business Academy that found faulty fume hoods, a broken eyewash station, obstructed fire extinguishers, and ...

A groan went around the conference table. Robert Morris was on his soapbox again, arguing that laboratories in California are plagued by ventilation systems that meet safety specs on paper, but fail ...

A Newton-based company announced Tuesday that it’s been awarded a $1.2 million contract to install an air-quality monitoring system in University of Massachusetts Medical School laboratories. Aircuity ...

In total 1,132 mice and rats died because a fuse blew in the cooling system, which saw the building they were kept in warm to unbearable temperatures. By the time technicians discovered the problem, ...