Not sure if someone already mentioned the AIHA as a source for online training/library for ventilation design. Jeff Burton has a course online and live workshops on ventilation systems that is excellent based on the ventilation manual that addresses all ventilation issues.

=EF=BB=BFThere's also "Guidelines for Laboratory Design - Health and Safety Considerations" by DiBerardinis, Baum, et al.

I've taken Guidelines for Laboratory Design that I found tremendously useful.  Here's the website:  https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ecpe/programs/guidelines-for-laboratory-design/

The best way I've found to make an impact was to build relationships with project managers and every chance I got, to add value to the project.  Mostly by saving money, dispelling the assumption that health and safety always adds cost to the project.  But that assumed I had a seat at the table with the design team.  That took some doing and convincing my management that it was worth my time to be a part of project planning.  And then my management insisting I be included.

HTH,
Debbie

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I would like to circle back to the area that I still see great needs-getting the information out to the architect, architectural firms, and mechanical engineers who are designing the laboratories.

The classic guide that addresses this question is from the National Research Council in 2000:
Laboratory Design, Construction, and Renovation: Participants, Process, and Product, available for free at https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9799/laboratory-design-construction-and-renovation-participants-process-and-product.

Unfortunately, even though I have provided paper copies to design managers (architects and engineers) of several lab projects I've been involved in, I've seen no evidence that they read it...

- Ralph

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