Cleanroom Learning Center

As a leading designer and supplier of cleanroom wall and ceiling systems, PortaFab offers a number of helpful articles on specifying and building a cleanroom.

What Is A Clean Room?
View our short video and article explaining the purpose of cleanrooms and controlled environments as well as information on cleanroom contamination and ISO classifications.

Clean Room Design
A basic introduction into the types of clean room designs that are available, depending on your specific application.

Clean Room Construction - Selecting the Right Clean Room Materials
An informative article that discusses factors like the construction site, project schedule, costs, and regulations one must consider when specifying a cleanroom.

Construction Process - Steps for Successful Clean Room Construction
While there are discrete steps in the design and construction of a cleanroom, those projects deemed successful incorporate certain practices that promote flow of the construction process toward completion on time and within budget.

Bio-Pharmaceutical Cleanroom Design Guidelines
The purpose of this guideline is to provide design and constriction suggestions for cleanrooms housing bio-pharmaceutical processes.

Effect of ISO Standards on Microelectronics Clean Room Design
This movement is an international effort in which the U.S. has participated and which has resulted in a multiple part document that in the opening years of the millennium may very well become the guiding document for cleanroom design in the U.S. and throughout the world. ISO 14644 will most likely become very familiar to those of us who design cleanrooms.

USP 797 Pharmaceutical Labs & Sterile Compounding Regulations
USP 797 is a far-reaching regulation that applies to health care institutions, pharmacies, physicians practice facilities, and other facilities in which compound sterile preparations are prepared, stored, and dispensed. The purpose of the regulation is to prevent infections in patients using pharmaceutical products, as well as to protect pharmacy staff members that are ordinarily exposed to pharmaceutical products.

Directories of Information Sites

ISO.org
Official ISO documentation on 14644.

RFcafe.com
Resources for radio, radar, RF, ,icrowave, and wireless engineering