LABORATORY DESIGN Team Overview Environmental Engineering & Technology, Inc. provides full service laboratory designs. The team brings together a staff of registered professionals specializing in all disciplines critical for laboratory design. Laboratory Design Group The Laboratory Design Group brings the expertise of water treatment chemists to the project. Differing from most engineering firms, the group is involved in the daily operation of an in-house laboratory serving the water treatment industry. The group has helped water treatment plants across the country plan treatment processes and laboratory analytical procedures. Our daily work environment allows our team to be familiar with the specialized analytical equipment common to water treatment plant laboratories. Our awareness of the instrumentation along with our involvement in the water industry allows us to design laboratories with certain needs in mind, such as the bench space required for each instrument, access for cabling, and heat dissipation. Our laboratory designs include optimizing laboratory space, considering the needs of the chemists’ comfort at the laboratory bench, and keeping costs at a minimum. Arranging laboratory casework can be considered a simple project by some engineers. However, designing a water treatment plant with insight into the analytical processes, laboratory knowledge of OSHA and EPA requirements, and understanding of the chemists’ work routine requires a higher level of expertise. Because of EE&T’s leadership role in AWWA, on-going research projects, active in-house laboratory, and participation in the regulatory process, the laboratory group is well qualified to work with water treatment plant staff on all aspects of laboratory design. We expect to provide owners with a well-arranged laboratory that surpasses the regulatory requirements. During the design process, the laboratory mission criteria are established with the water treatment plant staff. These criteria include the tabulation of testing procedures, the equipment required for the analysis, and number of staff assigned to each lab. A conceptual plan is then developed to allocate floor space based on the expected requirements for bench top area, fume hoods, and cabinetry. The conceptual plan is integrated into the laboratory building and a final floor plan is developed. Once the building envelope and floor plan are established, the group can begin detailed design of the laboratories. A 3-D CADD capability is used fully to plan each laboratory arrangement. The 3-D model allows the design team and water treatment plant personnel to visualize the working environment and plan the location of each instrument, hood, and supporting casework.   RECENT LABORATORY PROJECTS Cincinnati Water Works, Cincinnati, Ohio 38,000 ft2 Fairfax County Water Authority, Virginia 25,000 ft2 Swift Creek WTP, Chesterfield County, Virginia 6,500 ft2 Erie County Water Authority, Buffalo, New York 6,000 ft2 City of Durham, North Carolina - Williams Laboratory 1,000 ft2 City of Camden WTP, Camden, South Carolina 800 ft2 EE&T Laboratories, Newport News, Virginia 600 ft2 Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, Virginia Cleveland Department of Water, Ohio