New laboratory buildings for the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena / Germany

The facilities used by the Institute of Chemistry at the FSU of Jena have up to now been spread across the entire urban area of Jena.  The construction of new laboratory buildings provides a solution to this problem.  With a floor space of 3,420m², the buildings include a laboratory wing with chemical storage facilities, office and seminar rooms, a lecture theatre, along with the control room.
AJZ have been involved in the planning of some 40 laboratories, in accordance with current occupational health and safety regulations, including:

• Laboratories for basic and advanced practical training
  
• Laboratories for chemical preparation and analytical work
  
• Laboratories for endurance testing Research and
  
• Laboratories for specific purposes including NMR, RSA, gas chromatography, spectroscopy, extraction, as well as
  
• night laboratories

Almost all laboratories have required a wide range of supplies, including compressed air, argon, nitrogen, hydrogen and helium, as well as decentralised supply networks for rough vacuum operation and installations for fine vacuum operation.
Planning solutions have had to be developed for the storage and transfer of acids, alkalis and also solvents. For example, 2 transfer stations (closed systems) with automatic switching had to be planned for the continuous transfer of 20 different solvents from larger containers into smaller ones.
Another planning consideration was the glassblowing works for quartz and borosilicate glass.

Commissioned by:  Free State of Thuringia

Implementation: 2008 - 2011