{"id":3295,"date":"2012-10-17T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2012-10-17T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:04:28","slug":"neidl-upgrades-wall-coating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/2012\/10\/neidl-upgrades-wall-coating\/","title":{"rendered":"NEIDL Upgrades Wall Coating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Statement<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span>October 17, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Through a series of inspections, NEIDL staff found  that the wall coating installed by a contractor did not perform up to  the standards we require for the Level 4 facility.\u00a0Therefore, over the  next several months, we will be re-coating several  surface areas in the NEIDL, including in the BSL-4 lab space.<\/p>\n<p><span>The NEIDL\u2019s safety protocol for cleaning and  disinfecting BSL-4 laboratories requires completely smooth walls and  ceilings. The initial coating, over time, failed to meet that standard.\u00a0  For that reason, we have engaged a new contractor  to replace the coating which requires some construction activity at the  facility.\u00a0 The re-coating work will start this month and will be done  in stages. The first lab will be finished in April 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span>The re-coating project will not  affect the NEIDL\u2019s timetable to open as approval to commence BSL-4  research must still await the completion of regulatory and judicial  review; the remedial work on the surface areas will be  done during that period.<\/p>\n<p><span>This wall coating issue was reported to  members of the public who serve on the NEIDL\u2019s Community Liaison  Committee (CLC) in July, 2011 and is noted in its minutes which are  available on the NEIDL website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/files\/2012\/03\/7-26-11-CLC-Minutes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/files\/2012\/03\/7-26-11-CLC-Minutes.pdf<\/a>).   The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Boston Public Health  Commission were also notified advised of the wall coating issue when it  was first detected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Once the issue was identified and appropriate  authorities notified, we completed an engineering analysis, developed a  remedial plan and selected a contractor to do the work. The work will  be done in stages and will not impact ongoing  BSL-2 research and training activities currently underway in the  building. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement October 17, 2012 Through a series of inspections, NEIDL&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3075,452,719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}