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From Old to High-Performing: Navigating the Complexities of Breathing New Life into Existing Buildings
Outdated buildings—including a federal lab and a former big-box store—can be successfully transformed into high-performing, flexible laboratory spaces by leveraging early feasibility studies, interdisciplinary collaboration, and design strategies focused on sustainability, adaptability, and occupant well-being
Webinar Preview: Sustainability Considerations in Small Laboratory Renovations and Refits
Join us for this webinar to learn how architects, lab planners, and lab managers can approach small laboratory renovations in ways that achieve meaningful sustainability goals without relying on third-party certifications, using a flexible, collaborative strategy
Courtroom-to-Lab Conversion: Adaptive Reuse for Next-Gen STEM Education
UMBC transformed a historic courthouse into advanced classroom and lab space to support growing programs in computing, cybersecurity, and engineering while preserving and repurposing existing infrastructure
A Historic Building Reimagined: Creating a Modern Life Sciences Facility in Rochester
G&H’s new Innovation Hub for Life Sciences in Rochester, NY, transforms a historic building into a flexible, ISO:13485-certified facility that integrates R&D, prototyping, and high-volume manufacturing to accelerate medtech development and support future scalability
Converging Labs and Data: How AI Is Shaping the Future of Life Sciences Infrastructure
AI’s growing role in life sciences is driving the convergence of laboratories and data centers, leading to the design of hybrid, scalable facilities—often through adaptive reuse—that support secure, efficient research and data processing in emerging innovation hubs
Upgrading and Preserving Harvard’s Historic Chemistry Lab
Harvard University is renovating its nearly century-old Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department to upgrade aging electrical infrastructure, address drainage issues, and improve climate resilience, with a completion date of December 2025, while minimizing disruptions to ongoing research and teaching
Former Brewery Building Transformed into Life Sciences Hub
HATCHlabs @ Wilderness Place in Boulder, CO provides space for biotech and pharma innovators
Project Profile: University of California Irvine, Medical Education Building
Gensler recently completed a renovation of the Medical Education Building at University of California Irvine which spanned multiple project types including an anatomy lab, Active Learning Center, student lounge, classrooms, and offices
Cell Signaling Technology and HGA Unveil Plans to Transform Abandoned Quarry Into Climate-Friendly Innovation Campus Near Boston
When creating new lab spaces, it’s imperative to design with the understanding that life sciences will inevitably change, sometimes quite rapidly
Botany Study With Garden Views: Modernizing A Midcentury UCLA Life Science Building
Honoring Paul R. Williams’ design intent and legacy while establishing an open environment that connects the science within the labs to the botanical gardens beyond, the reimagined UCLA La Kretz Botany Building places botany on display from the first step through the front door