With regulations sharpening within the processing industry, processing companies are tightening up their safety requirements and complying to NFPA 1. With this change, the requirement for a class 1 division 1 processing room has thrown a curve ball for many designers. Builders, and processing brands hazardous areas such as C1D1 Labs. Increasing building and engineering costs, creating new barriers of entry, and increasing requirements for the equipment itself, NFPA 1 has created several new challenges for business owners who are now required to get certified C1D1 processing rooms and peer reviewed processing equipment. This article is aimed to show you some of the benefits of having a C1D1 processing room. Why C1D1 Labs is the best company to supply your processing room, processing equipment, and processing engineering.
C1D1 Labs is one of the most well known brands in the solvent processing industry for supplying Class 1 Division 1 Processing Rooms simply. Because of our goal to lower the client’s biggest barrier of entry in the industry: COST. There are several costs when designing and building a C1D1 processing room that many may not think about while designing their first, or even second processing laboratory. First, the engineering certifications required to meet NFPA 1 compliance normally requires the laboratory to design a room with a local engineer and then a different engineer who must have the proper experience in these solvent processing room reviews (most municipalities only allow a few engineers nation wide) has to then review the engineers design. Write a technical report showing it’s compliance. This is what defines a 3rd party engineer peer review and it can be a nightmare trying to meet a PE engineer’s standards with your local engineer for a hazardous area. Going back and forth between these two engineers can be costly with the engineers work itself (reviews normally start around $10,000. By themselves) but you are going to add weeks if not months to your project. Anyone in the industry knows this is your biggest marginal cost if you are paying rent or expect pricing in the market. Having a pre-engineered and pre-certified Class 1 Division 1 Processing room will save the engineering / design costs as well as the engineer peer review costs as well in addition to the time it would have taken these engineers to complete the work. In addition to the review costs, a UL control panel must be developed to meet the requirements of fan interlocks. E-stop functionality for an emergency situation. C1D1 Labs provides a digital control system for the class 1 division 1 solvent processing room. Is UL listed and can control the power of the fans through VFDs. However, the system also has the built interlocks required by NFPA 1 to ensure your C1D1 processing booth meets your fire marshal’s requirements. Therefore, this panel would be costly and time consuming, adding to the costs and time length of this processing room design and development.
Having a pre-engineered processing room with the required engineer peer review. A C1D1 processing booth has several more advantages for a solvent processing company. First, they are a step forward to making sure they are in full compliance with their insurance company. It isn’t well known that if there is an accident in your facility where someone gets hurt or the equipment / facility is damaged, it is very likely the insurance company will run an audit on your NFPA / local / state compliance in addition to requesting the mechanical engineering stamped designs for the ducting. HVAC connected to your C1D1 processing room. Having the full A/MEP engineering documents for the building department in addition to a fire hazard analysis report. The correct certifications are normally required for any sort of payout in an accident. C1D1 Labs provides all of these services, in addition to equipment fabrication and supply. However, having a well known fire protection engineering team supply the processing equipment, processing engineering, and Class 1 Division 1 processing room. Having our stamp on the supporting documents provides a strong confidence from your municipality when submitting for permits. Having these documents and a fire hazard analysis report stamped. Submitted can shift liability away from the fire marshals who review your C1D1 processing room, and place that liability onto our engineers. This is the secret sauce of cutting down permitting timelines / cost and protecting your company for long term success.
There is an underlying theme of simplifying the purchasing and permitting of processing equipment and class 1 division 1 solvent processing rooms by creating a permitting structure. Shifts liability to the equipment company while at the same time allowing the client to only work with one chef in the kitchen when purchasing and permitting. Simplifying the team you are working with can exponentially speed up a project’s timeline when permitting a solvent processing room. This comes from personally watching architects and engineer’s egos clash with each other. The equipment engineers, creating longer timelines and costs for the client. C1D1 Labs was the first vertically integrated processing equipment company. Was able to design, work with peer review engineers, fabricate, and distribute both certified processing equipment and Class 1 Division 1 Solvent Processing Rooms while also providing the fire protection engineering, architectural design. Mechanical / electrical / plumbing engineering services that are included in our solvent processing lab permitting packages.
