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As an example, if you are in a lease situation, and are putting a clean room in and you don’t know if 10 years from now if you’re going to be there, one of the main advantages of modular is that it is considered to be a piece of capital equipment.

Modular construction lends itself to increasing your speed, cleanliness and quality of construction. Let me explain - speed is pretty easy. Modular construction is manufactured off-site and erected on site. So constructing a building with modular components takes less time and therefore projects can be completed much quicker.

Some of the same requirements for a controlled environment (also known as a critical environment) are the same for a cleanroom - they just don’t go as far.

When you’re looking at developing and building a critical environment you have to consider that the area needs to be segregated, so therefore you have to build it separately. It also has to maintain temperature control, so it will require an insulated panel. Finally it has to maintain pressurization so that you can keep the outside environment from getting in.

It does, and actually in opposite ways. A single pass cleanroom is going to cost you less to construct because you don’t need that return air path, or that secondary containment, and you need secondary walls to do that. However, the problem with it is you cannot control the outside environment as well.

One of the most important factors that you have to determine when constructing a cleanroom is what size of particle you will need to filter out. Is it any size particle? Is it a specific size or range of particles? Most often you find that people look at the cleanroom classification and they go to the lowest level particle count to determine what classification they need.