Dr.Teck-Mean Chua
Biosafety Consultant
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore

This workshop will cover the details of BSL-1, BSL-2, BSL-3 and BSL-4 laboratories and physical security measures for these laboratories. The old style BSL-2 laboratories that form the backbone for medical and veterinary diagnostic work have undergone a significant change over the last few decades moving away from small individual purpose specific laboratories to larger multifunctional laboratories which have increasing flexibility built into them to allow for modern changers in work such as provided increasingly by robotics. The process of consultation, risk assessment and work flow analysis to produce laboratories that are suitable for the users is described. This is associated with a consideration of design principles such as site factors, standards and regulations, a first look at budgeting and construction principles. Finally we shall cover the types of equipment found in laboratories and the move to robotics.

Biocontainment facilities – Addressing biosecurity and biocontainment issues in design and engineering