[labnetwork] Gas cabinet installation by contractors or facility

[Kyle Keenan]

Short answer: leave nothing to chance when it comes to safety. You should
have them installed & configured by the people who manufacture them. The
risk and liability associated with doing otherwise is just not worth it.

Best,
Kyle

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM Joseph Losby <joseph.losby at ucalgary.ca>
wrote:

> Dear Labnetwork,
>
> We are currently in the design development phase of constructing a
> cleanroom facility.  The intention is to have about 40-50% of the cleanroom
> unused on opening day that is reserved for future tools.  Although we have
> scoped out what future equipment we wish to acquire, they are not finalized.
>
> Our contractors wish to install the gas cabinets (they are included in the
> project budget) for both the currently scoped and future tools.  Because
> the cabinet configurations are equipment dependent (most will be for RIE
> and CVD/dep tools), we are trying to decide if it's worth the contractors
> installing 'generic' cabinets for future tools that we can configure
> ourselves (install gas monitoring, safety showers, etc).
>
> Do you feel this is a feasible approach and if so, what would you install?
> Or, would you rather install the cabinets yourselves entirely?
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
>
>
> *Joseph Losby, PhD*
>
> *Manager, qLab Operations*
>
> *joseph.losby at ucalgary.ca <joseph.losby at ucalgary.ca>*
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Kyle Keenan

Senior Manager - Laboratory Operations
Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility
University of Pennsylvania
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