Re: vendors for shielded rooms

["BILL BROWN" <bcbill@dave-world.net>]

MELISSA,

I BELIEVE I HAVE A VENDOR THAT CAN HELP YOU OUT WITH THIS PROJECT.  I HAVE
E-MAILED HIM YOUR PROJECT AND SHOULD HEAR BACK FROM HIM PROBABLY TODAY.			


BEST REGARDS,
BILL BROWN
B. BROWN CONSULTING, INC
PHONE:  888-829-4670
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> From: M. Woo <m-woo@uiuc.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Q: vendors for shielded rooms
> Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 7:53 AM
> 
> A researcher on campus is part of a project that needs to have 5
> shielded rooms built for a research particle accelerator and related
> activities at a national lab.  They have gotten an estimate for one of
> the rooms from a company that deals primarily with building shielded
> rooms for medical use, and he is pretty shocked at the price (> $1.1
> million).  He would like to know of other vendors that might be able to
> come in with a better price.  Quite honestly, as I've never been
> directly involved with building these kinds of rooms, I don't know
> whether the quoted price is reasonable or not.
> 
> I have quoted (with indicated deletions) information he sent to me
> below.  Please e-mail me (address in .sig below) if you know of, or are,
> such a vendor.  I will compile the information and pass it along to him,
> so that he can contact the vendors himself.  (If anyone else is
> interested, please let me know.  I'll be glad to e-mail or post to the
> list, depending on # of responses.  You never know when you might need
> to spec a shielded room for an accelerator, hm? :-) )
> 
> As always, thanks in advance for any info you can pass along!
> 
> Melissa
> 
> ===quoted text===
> Here are some specifics about ONE of the radiation enclosures that we
> are trying to procure through [name of nat'l lab deleted].  The whole
> package is for 5 such rooms with similar specs.  The contract would be
> to fabricate the panels from steel-lead-steel sandwich, including
> pre-wired electrical outlets etc, assemble them at [name of nat'l lab
> deleted], and finally verify and fix their radiation-tightness.
> 
> Dimensions 5.5m long x 2.6m wide x 3.4m tall.
> Wall thicknesses:
> 19mm front (2.6m)
> 50mm back (2.6m)
> 19mm sides (5.5m)
> 12mm roof
> 
> Fittings: pneumatic door 1m wide, 18" square 19mm window, 5 electrical
> outlet strips, breaker box, some interlock hardware, exhaust fan and
> some cable feedthroughs.
> 
> The price they ([name of vendor deleted]) are giving us is $225,000. 
> I'd be interested if you can find any alternative potential vendors.
> ===end quoted text===
> 
> -- 
> Melissa Woo, Health Physicist <mailto:m-woo@uiuc.edu>
> Div. of Environmental Health & Safety
> 101 S. Gregory St., MC-225, Urbana, IL 61801
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