Controlled Environmental Rooms

These rooms are crucial for industries like pharmaceuticals, electronics, and biotechnology, ensuring optimal conditions for processes that demand stringent environmental control.

They control temperature, humidity, pressure, cleanliness, and often particle count, creating an ideal setting for sensitive processes and experiments.

They enhance product quality, improve yields, and maintain compliance with regulatory standards, ultimately leading to increased efficiency and reduced risks of contamination.

No, a Controlled Environment is a broader term encompassing various environments with controlled parameters. A Cleanroom, on the other hand, is a specialized type of Controlled Environment designed for exceptionally low particle levels.

While both involve environmental control, a Controlled Environment includes settings with regulated factors like temperature and humidity. A Cleanroom is a subset, emphasizing stringent cleanliness standards with controlled particle levels for specific industrial applications.

Most importantly, some products such as pharmaceuticals are temperature sensitive and the cold chain must be maintained continuously from the point of manufacturing to the point of storage and ultimately distribution. This ensures that the integrity and effectiveness of the medications are maintained at all times.

These temperature-sensitive drugs require temperature-controlled environments, also known as classified cold rooms, which have different classification grades.

Utilities are critical to the ongoing support of the mechanical and electrical systems that will keep the room running at its peak performance. We always recommend emergency utilities if the stored materials in the environmental room are of any significant value.

Any regulated controlled environmental room may require regular maintenance and ongoing certification and validation to ensure that the systems are performing to the original specifications.

The certification may be required by governing bodies of the pharmaceutical or pharmacology or agency regulating and approving the environmental chamber or environmental room for its intended purpose. It is the clients responsibility to provide continual maintenance mechanically and electrically as well as provide regular validation and calibration.

Certification of the alarming setpoints should also be verified on a regular basis to account for wear and tear on the systems and natural sensor and recording element drift. This is considered normal practice and good due diligence to ensure the environmental rooms meet the standards of the governing agencies associated with the work.

Any controlled environment should be cleaned and disinfected regularly with non-caustic cleaners so that they do not damage the panel surfaces.

Regular inspection on the door gaskets should be done to look for wear and tear, or breaches in the sealing capability of the door seals.

The door hinges and heaters should be checked regularly as well.

It is advised to provide regular lubricant to all moving parts. Otherwise, the room shells typically last a very long time. When maintained regularly.

The room joints should be inspected and checked annually to ensure that the normal expansion and contraction of the room does not adversely affect the integrity of the caulked joints within the environmental chamber. Maintaining a high degree of vapour ceiling is strongly recommended at all times.

Door gasket and window heaters should be checked annually as well. To ensure they are working and functioning as intended.

These measures will provide many years of satisfactory operation from the environmental rooms and environmental chambers