Building to a Higher Cleanroom Classification

QUESTION:

Is there a problem with building a higher classification clean room than needed?

Answered By: Tim Loughran

Every time you go down a class, or up a class, for instance from an ISO 8 (class 100,000) to an ISO 7 (class 10,000), that’s going to take twice as much air. The cost of filtering and moving air is a significant cost of operating a clean room. This process translates all the way down through to the number of filters that you need, the amount of return air space that you need, the amount of air conditioning you need to cool that return air and so forth. And this multiplies itself as you go through the process.