McMaster University -
Geography/Geology Laboratories Renovation

The renovation to the laboratories for Geography and Geology Departments teaching and research facility comprised the following components:

• Renovation to the existing fourth floor totalling 11,000 square feet housing new laboratories for undergraduate and research work in soils, water, contaminants, luminescence, micro paleontology, stable isotopes, x-ray and mass spectrometry, and chemistry clean room.
• The existing mechanical room on the fourth floor of the building houses new mechanical equipment with some equipment located on the roof serving the new laboratories in the building.
• Renovations to the second floor of the building included demolition of all existing laboratories including the equipment, fixtures, upgrades to existing make-up air handler and dual temperature fan coil heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and plumbing and electrical infrastructure.
• Unique features are clean room lab area for chemistry research with new dedicated air handling system for fume hoods, laminar flow hoods and canopy hood, new dedicated air handling system and process cooling system for mass spectrometer and x-ray laboratories, and associated support rooms and Perchloric fume hood and exhaust system with washdown.
• New systems include high plume manifolded fume exhaust for 14 variable volume fume hoods and canopy hoods, refurbished make-up air handler, electronic laboratory controls for the building environmental conditions and laboratory room pressurization, process cooling water loop, reverse osmosis water system and air/gas/water services to lab benches and fume hoods.