As a leading designer and supplier of cleanroom wall and ceiling systems, PortaFab offers a number of helpful articles on cleanroom environments, specification and classification, and cleanroom regulations.

Understanding Cleanroom Environments

What Is A Cleanroom?
What exactly is a cleanroom? Read about cleanrooms, ISO classification, contamination, and more.

What's a Controlled Environment?
"Do I need a cleanroom, or just a "cleaner" room?" Read about the differences and applications for both.

Cleanroom FAQs
Get answers to common cleanroom design, construction and specification questions in our cleanroom FAQ section.

Cleanroom Design
The types of cleanroom designs that are available as well as information on airflow design.

Cleanroom Classification
How is cleanroom classification measured and how to determine the classification needed.

Cleanroom Materials
Criteria for determining the most efficient/cost-effective cleanroom construction technique.

Bio-Pharmaceutical Cleanroom Design Guidelines
A very informative article specifying the design and construction of cleanrooms for housing bio-pharmaceutical processes.

Effect of ISO Standards on Microelectronics Cleanroom Design
The seven parts of ISO 14644 that govern how cleanrooms are identified, designed, constructed, tested, and operated.

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.