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From strobicair.com
Low chimneys for UQAM’s laboratory. At the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) the design team evaluated many HVAC products while planning a new 37,160-m2 (400,000-s.f.) laboratory building for the university’s science campus. Teaching and research activities there include mathematics, computer sciences, physics, earth and environmental sciences. By any standards this was a huge project. The 10-storey building accommodates over 4,000 students and incorporates over 150 individual laboratory work stations for research and education. The building also houses classrooms, teachers’ offices and a library. One of the many HVAC considerations was managing the work station fume hood exhaust for the 150 laboratories. As is typical of university laboratories, a wide variety of chemicals and materials is used at the work stations and as a result some fume hood exhaust effluents are highly corrosive, and noxious. Products & Services
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Laboratory Workstation Exhaust at University of Quebec at Montreal (.pdf)
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