January to June 2002 — UBC Chemistry Building

Nu 021 MC-ICP-MS and Triton TIMS (Finnigan) are installed.

These photos do not do justice to the stress of that event … The instruments did not go through the basement doors of the Chemistry building, the crane was moving too much, etc…. All ended up well, but … the clean labs were very basic.

What it all looked like after 6 months — we have gone a long way since then, even after a few lab catastrophies: AC leaks, melted piece, chem lab fiasco (or what happens when one use steel in exhaust pipes …).