Overview
- Presents systems design for buildings housing nanoscale research and development
- Gives examples of successful building projects
- Discusses sources of noise impeding measurement at the nanoscale
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Science Policy Reports (SCIPOLICY)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
• Establishing and maintaining critical environments: temperature, humidity, and pressure
• Structural vibration isolation
• Airborne vibration isolation (acoustic noise)
• Isolation of mechanical equipment-generated vibration/acoustic noise
• Cost-effective power conditioning
• Grounding facilities for low electrical interference
• Electromagnetic interference (EMI)/Radio frequency interference (RFI) isolation
• Airborne particulate contamination
• Airborne organic and chemical contamination
• Environment, safety and health (ESH) considerations
• Flexibility strategies for nanotechnology facilities
The authors are specialists and experts with knowledge and experience in the
control of environmental disturbances to buildings and experimental apparatus.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ahmad Soueid is Principal/Senior Vice President for HDR Architecture, Inc. and chair of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) Nanotechnology Working Group which developed an overview document IEST-RP-NANO200, Planning of Nanoscale Science and Technology Facilities: Guidelines for Design, Construction, and Start-up. He holds a BS and MS in Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Clayton Teague, now Guest Researcher at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), was Director of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) from 2003 to 2011. He also served as the Chair of the American National Standards Institute Technical Advisory Group to the ISO Technical Committee on Nanotechnologies (ISO TC 229) from 2005 - 2011. He participated in the design/construction of the NIST Advanced Measurement. He holds a BS and MS in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in physics from the University of North Texas.
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James Murday, now Director of Physical Sciences for the University of Southern California’s Office of Research Advancement, was a founding member of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative, and
executive secretary to the U.S. Nanoscale Science Engineering and Technology (NSET) Committee from 2001 to 2006. He participated in the design/construction of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Nanoscience Building. He holds a BS in physics from the CaseInstitute of Technology and a PhD in physics from Cornell University.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Buildings for Advanced Technology
Editors: Ahmad Soueid, E. Clayton Teague, James Murday
Series Title: Science Policy Reports
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24892-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24890-5Published: 08 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79694-9Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24892-9Published: 30 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2213-1965
Series E-ISSN: 2213-1973
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 185
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Building Physics, HVAC, Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Nanochemistry