Completed in 2009, Clean Room 10 for BD Medical is a 19,000 SF remodel which added more high tech manufacturing to the existing facility in Sandy, Utah.

Axis recommended an innovative walkable ceiling system for the design. The ceiling allows maintenance personnel to have access to every square foot of space above the entire clean room, replacing the catwalk system used elsewhere in the plant. This wall-to-wall ceiling eliminates the need for fall protection, minimizing the time required for maintenance to the ductwork and electrical bus ducts throughout the area.

This system performed well, and reduced the cost of the structural steel required for a typical cat walk by approximately $50,000, and reduced the overall structural depth by about 30 inches. This space savings is critical in the mezzanine area, and improves access to equipment and systems.

The remainder of the facility was required to be kept up and running during the entire construction process. This posed a problem with respect to the vibration-sensitive equipment in the adjacent Data Center - the nerve center for the entire plant. Axis incorporated several techniques in the construction documents to mitigate this risk, including the digging of an isolation trench around the Data center to minimize the transmission of vibration through the soil. There were also stringent requirements in place to avoid the penetration of moisture or dust into the facility, as well as methods to mitigate the transmission of construction noise.