Located in the University of Waterloo’s David Johnston Research and Technology Park, the RAC1 cleanroom is the original lab site for the QNFCF. This lab is located in room 1013 on the main floor of the RAC1 building and boasts a 975 sq ft ISO class 7 modular cleanroom dedicated to “clean assembly”, this area includes clean assembly workstations and a thermocycling system . Surrounding the modular cleanroom is 650 sq ft of general purpose lab space, which includes a chemistry lab and micro assembly tools.