IFAB Rates

IFAB fees and rates

IFAB Fees

The Innovations in Fabrication (IFAB) is a cost-center facility at the University of Virginia is the School of Engineering that is open to internal (UVA) and external users to perform their own research and development activities.  Rates are established by the managing unit and approved by the University Office of the Comptroller.  IFAB currently operates with two tiers of Monthly Entrance Fees, hourly rates on select equipment (Ebeam Raith and Laser Microwriter direct-write), equipment training fees, and special materials fees (eg, precious metals, liquid nitrogen, specialty wafers).  

All internal users will be charged the same entrance fee (of their choice), $/hr rates, training fees and materials fee costs.
All external users will similarly be charged the same rates, though at a higher rate than internal users.

For staff only:  STAFF MATERIALS-OTHER FEE SHEET  &  STAFF TRAINING FEE SHEET 

Early this summer, IFAB will be changing to a new fee structure. 

Monthly Entrance Fees

IFAB operates with a combination of a base monthly User Entrance Fee along with hourly equipment rates on select equipment.  IFAB currently offers a single Full Facility Entrance Fee that allows users access to both Microfabrication and BioManufacturing. IFAB also offers a BioManufacturing ONLY Entrance-Fee. Users must recieve a Microfabrication Facility & Safety tour before they can access the Microfabrication equipment-stations, and receive a BioManufacturing Facility & Safety tour before accessing BioManufacturing equipment-stations. 

→  All users must enter a Funding Account number (or "No Use") in the IFAB Monthly Entrance Fee system every month (external users should enter their name and institution)

        Full Facility (Microfab+BioM) Entrance Fees 
        BioManufacturing Monthly Entrance Fees 

 Daily Master Sign-Up Calendar

To enter the IFAB cleanroom, one must sign into the DAILY MASTER SIGN-UP CALENDAR each day. Do NOT Sign Into to the  Daily Master calendar for future days.  There are also (see the section below) individual Sign-Up calendars for major iequipment and processing stations. Only IFAB users have access to Sign-Up calendars through the IFAB Microsoft Team/SharePoint membership. Additionally, only users approved to use a given piece of equipment should Sign-Up to use that equipment.  There are computers inside the cleanroom dedicated for Daily MAster and Equipment-Station Sign-Up

Equipment Fees and Sign-Up Calendars

All users must use the IFAB equipment/station Reservation Calendar system. Please access these systems through the below two links.

        Microfabrication Equipment Fees and Sign-Up Reservation Calendars  
 

        BioManufacuing Equipment Fees and Sign-Up Reservation Calendars