The Cleanroom Construction Associates (CCA) staff has combined for over twenty different white papers and published articles in all avenues of cleanroom, design, construction, and operation. These articles are referenced below for review and use by our current or potential clients. Feel free to read through them and utilize any that you feel can assist your efforts. If you'd like more information, please contact the author directly.
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March 14, 2015
Modular Cleanrooms – An Evolving Industry
Mark ForstControlled Environments magazineAn interview with Wayne McGee, owner of PortaFab Modular Building Systems, and Tim Loughran, owner of Cleanroom Construction Associates.
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February 16, 2015
The Surprising Advantages of Modular Cleanrooms
Scott Mackler A2C2 magazine November 1998 Modular cleanrooms offer a number of advantages over those constructed using “stick-built” techniques. They can obviously be built quickly and readily configured, upgraded, expanded and even dismantled and moved.
Abstract The controversy over the use of air showers in the contamination control process has been ongoing for many years. The effectiveness of an Air Shower entry system relates directly to its proper design and use. In recent years tests […]
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February 16, 2015
The Case for Design-Build Cleanroom Facilities Delivery
Scott Mackler Bio Processing Journal May/Jun 2003 In the past, most large construction projects used a system called design-bid-build. Now, pharmaceutical companies planning cleanrooms have begun using an improved system, design-build, which can save millions of dollars and cut months […]
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February 16, 2015
Point of View: Facilities Cleanliness Requirements
When the solution is simple, God is answering. – Albert Einstein The relationship between facility cleanliness and product cleanliness, between design criteria and operational conditions is one that even today oftentimes remains a mystery. Particle fallout is the source of […]
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February 16, 2015
Lithium Battery Manufacturing for Automotive use and the Associated Manufacturing Facility Requirements.
In 2009 the Department of Energy provided over $2 billion in grants and $25 billion in funding for low interest loan guarantees for the proliferation of the manufacture of alternate energy vehicles. The lion’s share of that funding went to […]
Bill Canis Specialist in Industrial Organization and Business March 22, 2011 The United States is one of several countries encouraging production and sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to reduce oil consumption, air pollution, and greenhouse gas […]