Animal Research Facilities 2011 - Tradeline, Inc.

Who Should Attend?
This conference is the annual
meeting for research veterinarians,
capital project teams, project
managers, engineering managers,
animal facility operations
managers, space planners, animal
facility and vivarium managers,
animal resource managers,
biosafety officers, and research
program directors to benchmark
their new management initiatives
or animal facility construction
programs for their institutions.
“Attendance at Tradeline
Conferences should be mandatory
for anyone who has a facility
renovation or expansion on the
horizon. If I had been coming
to these meetings over the
years, the registration fee
would be miniscule compared
to the thousands of dollars my
institution could have saved by
avoiding costly errors and by
improving design efficiencies.”
Bradford S. Goodwin Jr., DVM, DACLAM
Professor and Executive Director
The University of Texas Health Science Center
at Houston
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T
he Big Five in program objectives for virtually all animal research facilities
for the coming year:
1. Reduce operating costs
2. Expand capacity on a limited budget, and with limited space
3. Lower energy use (lean and sustainable!)
4. Meet new regulatory and certification requirements
5. Increase flexibility
At this conference, you’ll learn the details on how this is being done with existing
facilities and with the new expansion and consolidation projects now on the
drawing boards.
Twenty-seven conference sessions deliver new solutions that are yielding more cost
effective rodent, aquatic, NHP, large Ag, and multispecies facilities. In particular,
you’ll see what’s being done with new Lean processes, space plans for high
utilization facility infrastructures, Building Information Modeling (BIM), facility
maintenance programs, multiyear facility and operating plans, equipment, and
technologies to raise capacities, capabilities, space utilization, and labor efficiency—
with minimum capital dollars.
You’ll also examine the latest offerings in cost cutting, quality improving, efficiency
raising vendor technologies for animal housing, automation equipment, air handling
systems and controls, waste processing, surfaces and materials, specialty furniture,
decontamination technology, and more.
Attend this conference as a team (managing veterinarians, research program
directors, facility managers, capital project managers, engineering managers, space
planners, and financial managers) and pick up the critical new planning, design, and
operational details for achieving your Big Five objectives for costs, capacity, energy,
compliance, and flexibility.
I very much look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas, Nov. 7-8.
Steven L. Westfall, Ph.D.
President
Tradeline, Inc.