Cleanroom Construction
Cleanroom construction companies manufacture custom or pre-designed cleanrooms that fit all sorts of industry-specific standards. Many also provide maintenance services. The rooms are made up of walls or panels, a ceiling, doors, windows and lighting. There are many different varieties of cleanrooms. Permanent rooms are built into the building, while modular are smaller, freestanding temporary rooms that may be as small as a closet. Cleanroom manufacturers also build mini environments, which are the smallest cleanrooms built around a specific tool or machine to protect the semiconductor wafer from atmospheric exposure. These are used in semiconductor manufacturing applications. Other cleanrooms are made for the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, food processing, microelectric and nanotechnology. They are also commonly used in hospitals.
The walls, floors and ceilings of cleanrooms are generally all white, and made of steel, stainless steel, polycarbonate or acrylic. Hard wall rooms are made out of walls or panels, while in soft wall rooms, long plastic flaps replace the walls. Cleanrooms can be permanently installed or temporary, free-standing units. Pass throughs are a vital part of cleanroom construction. They are modular or built-in units composed of 2 sets of doors and serve to protect the room from contamination when moving parts in and out. Air showers are located at the entrance. These high-pressure air nozzles remove surface contamination from individuals working in cleanrooms.