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High-Performance Labs, Right-Sized Budgets: The Value Design Approach
Replacing traditional cost-cutting value engineering with a proactive, collaborative value design approach enables science and technology facilities to optimize performance, flexibility, and lifecycle costs from the outset
Elevating Lab Design: AMRF Earns Special Mention for Sustainable Renovation
The NRC’s $77 million AMRF project in Ontario transforms an occupied, conventional lab building into a vertically expanded, LEED Gold, highly flexible, and electrified research facility—earning a 2026 Design Excellence Special Mention while serving as a scalable model for modern, low-carbon laboratory design
Custom University Labs: Attracting Top Talent with Design Collaborations
Universities are increasingly partnering with architects to design highly customized labs—often within aging buildings—to attract top-tier researchers, translating complex scientific needs into flexible, future-ready spaces that support cutting-edge discovery
Cleanroom Fundamentals: Layout, Workflow, and Compliance Considerations
Designing a cleanroom requires early, process-driven planning that balances contamination control, regulatory compliance, specialized infrastructure, and user needs, because these highly controlled environments must be tailored to the science they support
When Lab Design Meets Reality: Hard Lessons from a High-Tech Build
Magdrive’s chief of staff shares hard-earned lessons from building the £3.8M DEEP Lab—covering tight timelines, massive equipment, cleanroom challenges, and what first-time lab builders need to know to avoid costly missteps
GMP vs. Non-GMP Zones: Managing Personnel Flow
By designing rigorous airlocks and unidirectional gowning rooms, architects can enforce strict personnel flow, bridging the gap between uncontrolled office environments and classified GMP manufacturing zones.
Watch On Demand: Expert Insights on Cleanroom Design
Lab Design’s on-demand webinar, How to Build a Cleanroom, guides viewers through the full cleanroom lifecycle, showing how to design and maintain adaptable facilities that meet evolving research, manufacturing, and regulatory needs
Transforming Office into Innovation: Inside Avantor’s New Jersey Center
Avantor’s new Innovation Center in Bridgewater, NJ, transforms a traditional office building into a cutting-edge, collaborative lab ecosystem—combining BSL-2 labs, cleanrooms, pilot production, and integrated office and training spaces—to accelerate next-generation biopharmaceutical and materials research
How Eli Lilly Is Shaping the Design of an Academic Pharma Lab
Designed in close collaboration with Eli Lilly, Lehigh Carbon Community College’s new pharmaceutical training labs incorporate cleanroom simulation, aseptic processing suites, and industry-standard equipment to replicate real manufacturing environments and create a workforce pipeline aligned with modern pharma operations
Webinar Preview: How to Build a Cleanroom
Sign up for this free webinar to explore the complete cleanroom lifecycle—from early planning and design through construction and commissioning, and into post-occupancy assessment and continuous optimization