CRC builds lab to house electron microscope
Based at the University of Cambridge
Clean Room Construction (CRC) of Rochester, Kent, UK has completed the construction of a new Nano Technology Laboratory for the University of Cambridge.
The new facility, located at the Nano Technology Centre on the West Cambridge Site, was purpose-built to house a new electron microscope. CRC has provided the laboratory in which the microscope is contained.
CRC’s brief was to design, install and validate a new laboratory area to achieve tight ambient control of 21 +/- 0.5ºC or better in addition to anti-vibration measures, RF shielding and minimal air turbulence as these would all have an adverse effect on the operation of the microscope.
The presence of SF6 gas also presented a hazard to occupants so a gas detection and extraction system was also installed together with other process utilities to service the requirements of the new microscope.
“Having been involved in the design and build of the University’s original Nano Technology Centre, CRC was delighted to again be involved in this latest chapter of development in the field of Nanotechnology,” said CRC’s project director Richard Rowe.
