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The new edition of this book addresses the many changes in laboratory design since the previous edition was published in 2001. It focuses on advances in environmental design and green laboratories while bringing up to date all health and safety aspects of lab design. Features include a new section on sustainable design, new chapters on material sciences engineering and nanotechnology, plus major updates in the Animal Research and HVAC chapters. Architects, design and HVAC engineers, industrial hygienists, EHS professionals, and facilities managers will gain an important ally for their work.

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"""In summary, this edition of the book addresses a broad spectrum of end users including administrators, researchers, instructors, engineers, and environment health officers. The book is a useful comprehensive reference for academic institutions, but perhaps not for individual instructors."" (Journal of Chemical Education, 1 January 2014)"

In summary, this edition of the book addresses a broad spectrum of end users including administrators, researchers, instructors, engineers, and environment health officers. The book is a useful comprehensive reference for academic institutions, but perhaps not for individual instructors. (Journal of Chemical Education, 1 January 2014)

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LOUIS J. DiBERARDINIS, BS, MS, CIH, CSP, is the Director of Environment, Health, and Safety at MIT. He is a visiting lecturer at Harvard University School of Public Health and Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in the Department of the Work Environment. He received his BS in chemical engineering from Northeastern University and an MS in industrial hygiene from Harvard University. JANET S. BAUM, BS, MArch, AiA, currently teaches part-time at Harvard University School of Public Health and at both the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design and the Institute of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her BS in architectural sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and her master of architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The late MELVIN W. FIRST, ScD, CIH, PE, was a researcher and professor of environmental health Engineering at the Harvard School of Public Health for almost sixty years and was actively involved in research until a week before his death. GARI T. GATWOOD, BSME, CSP (retired), is a consultant in safety engineering. He has forty years of safety experience in missile defense, commercial chemicals, laboratories, and university programs. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in Rolla, Missouri. Anand K. Seth, BS, MS, PE, CEM, CPE, is currently an Engineering Principal in Cannon Design, an international architectural/engineering firm. Seth worked at Massachusetts General Hospital as director of engineering and at Harvard University. He holds a master of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Maine and has done postgraduate work at other universities.

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