Forensic Anatomy Laboratory
A forensic anatomy centre is a facility within a facility: up to twenty-five functional zones, strict environmental control and a working environment that has to stay odour-free while the hardest examinations in the country are carried out in it.
01 What it solves
Body dissection is central to modern criminal investigation and medical research. A forensic autopsy room is the special place where a body is systematically examined — and it has to support that work without exposing the people doing it, or the rooms around it, to the contamination and odour the work produces.
The difficulty is scale. A first-level centre is a building complex in its own right, with twenty to twenty-five functional zones. A fourth-level room may have only two. Both have to be properly sealed, ventilated, monitored, lit and equipped — and the specification has to match the level, because over-building and under-building are both expensive mistakes.
02 What the solution includes
Functional zoning by level
A documented zone schedule for each of the four levels, covering ordinary dissection rooms, decomposed-body rooms, infectious-body rooms, specimen display, evidence storage, diatom testing, X-ray and CT, case-review rooms and support spaces.
Odour-free environmental system
Ducted all-fresh-air central air conditioning, internal multi-function supply static-pressure box, and extraction designed with the room, not after it.
Dissection-room equipment
Stainless-steel dissection tables with optional powered lift and dual exhaust, specimen-sampling benches, thawing pools and sterilising cabinets.
Monitoring
Surveillance with remote transmission at the upper levels, without it at the lower levels, matching the classification.
Lighting
Shadow-free, glare-free surgical lighting over the dissection tables.
Sterilisation & storage
Disinfection equipment, refrigerated storage and stainless furniture specified per zone rather than per room.
03 The four levels
The classification is the backbone of a forensic anatomy centre: it fixes how many functional zones the facility needs, which rooms appear at which level, and how each dissection room is equipped. Entrovita builds to all four.
| Level | Suited to | Functional zones | Dissection rooms | Equipment in each room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Provincial capitals and sub-provincial cities; reinforced prefecture-level cities | 20–25 | 3–5 ordinary, 1 decomposed-body, 1 infectious-body | Ducted all-fresh-air central air conditioning, internal multi-function supply static-pressure box, extraction, monitoring with remote transmission, stainless dissection equipment, sterilisation, refrigeration, shadow-free glare-free lighting |
| Level 2A | Reinforced prefecture-level cities | 15–20 | 1–3 ordinary, 1 decomposed-body, 1 infectious-body | Micro-powered air static-pressure purification with multi-function supply box, extraction, monitoring, stainless equipment, sterilisation, refrigeration, shadow-free glare-free lighting |
| Level 2B | Standard prefecture-level cities | 10–15 | 1–2 ordinary, 1 decomposed-body, 1 infectious-body | As Level 2A, with a reduced zone count |
| Level 3 | Reinforced county-level cities | 6–10 | 1 ordinary, 1 decomposed-body | Air static-pressure purification, multi-function supply static-pressure box, extraction, monitoring without remote transmission, stainless equipment, sterilisation, shadow-free glare-free lighting |
| Level 4 | Standard county-level cities | 2–6 | 1 standard room | Ducted fresh-air air conditioning, medium multi-function supply static-pressure box, extraction, monitoring, stainless equipment, sterilisation, shadow-free glare-free lighting |
Siting note
Levels 3 and 4 are commonly built within a funeral home rather than as standalone buildings, which makes the environmental system a shared problem with the rest of the facility — and a reason to treat it inside a turnkey scope.
Level 4 divides further into 4A, 4B and 4C: 4A for reinforced county-level bureaux with four to six functional zones, 4B for standard bureaux with two to four, and 4C with a single dissection room and an office, recommended to sit inside a funeral home.
04 How it works
The laboratory environment is delivered through the same three-module, six-system, nine-step method used across the company's safety-protection work — a method that keeps the space, the services and the human factors under one design.
- Three modulesSpace · Operation · Human factors — each decomposed into two systems.
- Six systemsBase space system · Base pipework system · HVAC purification system · Equipment and facilities system · Intelligent control system · Rest and adjustment system.
- Three process boardsCoordination · Planning · Implementation — mutually dependent and linked, not sequential.
- Nine working stepsSite survey, intention communication, feedback; function planning, space planning, operation planning; space build-out, equipment customisation, system commissioning.
05 Technical basis
The company's air-purified forensic dissection rooms have been tested by the Ministry of Public Security, against the industry standards that govern the room and the table.
| Standard | Subject |
|---|---|
| GA/T 830 | Construction specification for body-dissection and examination rooms |
| GA/T 750 | Stainless-steel body dissection table (public-security industry standard) |
| GB 50073-2013 / ISO 14644 | Air cleanliness classification |
| GB 50019-2016 | Design of heating, ventilation and air conditioning |
| GB 50016-2019 | Fire protection design for buildings |
| GB 50243-2016 | Acceptance of ventilation and air-conditioning works |
| GB 50303-2015 | Acceptance of electrical installation |
06 Selected references
Reference list drawn from the company's delivered public-security portfolio.
08 Questions buyers ask
Which level should we build?
The level follows the administrative tier and caseload the facility serves — provincial or sub-provincial, prefecture-level, or county-level. We will map your caseload and site against the four levels and recommend the one that fits, rather than the largest available.
Can a level 3 or 4 laboratory be built inside an existing funeral home?
Yes, and it is common. Those levels are designed to sit within a funeral home, which is why the environmental system is best planned together with the rest of the building.
What does 'odour-free' mean in practice?
It means the room is held at controlled pressure with all-fresh-air supply and extraction designed into the room layout, so odour is captured at source and does not circulate into adjacent spaces.
Do you install remote monitoring at every level?
No. Remote-transmission monitoring is specified for the upper levels. The lower levels are built with monitoring but without remote transmission, which is what the classification calls for.
Where to go next
Scope this solution for your project.
Send the site, the zones and the stage you are at. We reply with what we would deliver, which interfaces we would own and the standards we would build to.
