Refine the Design

摘要

The challenge of food contamination has led architects to refine design strategies for modern food processing plants. Everyone in the food processing industry has a least favorite contamination nightmare. Take the experience of a mid-western plant that ran into a bacteria problem last year. Every couple of weeks, tests would indicate the presence of bacteria. It was often different, suggesting different sources. The plant manager pressurized the building and implemented other tactics to keep bacteria out - to no avail. The general manager summoned an architect to look at the building and determine whether or not the facility's design had some weakness that was causing the problem. While walking through the building to study the doors and windows, the architect discovered a trail of open doors leading down a corridor and outside to the parking lot. Someone had propped open all the doors with cardboard wedges. It was the plant's laundry service. When the delivery person arrived to pick up and deliver uniforms, he found he could do his job faster if he propped the doors open while he moved the clean uniforms in and the dirty uniforms out. Flies followed him into the facility.