Includes a photo gallery . We renovated and expanded our chemistry building about five years ago, doubling its size. Because we're on the edge of the campus we could put our stockroom outside the main structure. We poured an extra slab and then brought in prefab units. These serve as chemical stores for the entire university.
Chemistry has only small storage areas next to prep rooms upstairs.
You can see our facility from our web site. You don't want to be sitting in the same room with the chemical fumes either. This means having your chemical stores on a separate HVAC system. It is not cheap but it has more than paid for itself in the past ten years over and over again by preventing loss of research data and valuable reagents when a freezer starts going bad or someone just programs an incubator incorrectly. We once had a grad student who thought she was programing the lights to go to zero when actually she programed the temp to go to zero in a plant growth chamber.