Published: April 15, 2011
Innovive Congratulates the Jackson Laboratory - Winner of the 2011 Turnkey Facility of the Year Award
SAN DIEGO - (BUSINESS WIRE) - The 2011 Facility of the Year Award was bestowed on The Jackson
Laboratory for their new Importation and Isolation facility, a
three-story, 22,500-square-foot building, located on the Laboratory's
Bar Harbor, Maine campus. The Facility of the Year Award recognizes
outstanding achievements in the design/build of a new or renovated
laboratory animal facility and is intended to showcase new ideas and
accomplishments in facility design, construction and operation.
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a nonprofit biomedical research
institution, is also the world's leading distributor of mouse models of
human diseases. The new Importation facility is a new construction
containment facility for receiving, housing and processing "imported"
mice of unknown health status that are delivered from other institutions
around the world. The building includes a 5,000-pen-capacity vivarium
for housing mice. Other facilities housed in the building are an in
vitro fertilization lab for harvesting and processing eggs, sperm and
embryos; a cryogenic storage facility with 20 large LN2 tank freezers; a
cryopreservation sample processing laboratory; and a BSL2cell culture
laboratory for importing cell lines.
The vivarium was designed specifically for Innovive Disposable Caging.
The entire project was completed without a supporting cage wash or
sterilizing operation. At capacity the facility will house 5,000 cages
of mice in Innovive disposable caging that will reside in dual
ventilated IVC racks. The design also included an innovative bio-safety
cabinet design by The Baker Company of Sanford, Maine. The BSC provides
an ergonomic cage change process using disposable caging.
The facility was designed by lead architect RMW Architecture of
Sacramento, Calif., and WBRC of Bangor, Maine, for engineering services
associated with mechanical, electrical and plumbing design, and Woodard
and Curran for site permitting, site design and civil work.
About The Jackson Laboratory: Founded in 1929, The Jackson
Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution
based in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a facility in Sacramento, California.
Its mission is to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating
and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the
global biomedical community. The Jackson Laboratory's JAX(R) Mice &
Services division supplies thousands of research mouse models and
extensive research services to accelerate basic research and early stage
drug discovery worldwide.
About Innovive: Innovive Inc. was founded in 2004 with the goal
of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with
laboratory animals. Using advanced computer-aided design and
manufacturing processes, Innovive creates reliable disposable rodent
caging systems to provide research facilities with superior quality,
performance, and cost savings. Our products are independently tested and
validated to assure trouble-free operation, and our global manufacturing
and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order
fulfillment.
Innovive Inc.
Susan Coll, 858-309-6620
info@innoviveinc.com
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