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Lab Renovations Require More Than a Fresh Coat of Paint
Lab renovations can uncover code compliance issues, aging infrastructure, and operational challenges. Melody Wang of EXP and Tzveta Panayotova of HDR explain how early planning can help teams manage risks, control costs, minimize disruptions, and prepare labs for future needs
Free Digital Event: Practical Ways to Improve Existing Labs
Lab Design’s free October 14 event will offer strategies for improving laboratory performance, planning cost-effective upgrades, and minimizing operational disruption
Building Labs That Grow With Startups
Life sciences incubators give emerging companies access to flexible laboratory space, shared equipment, operational support, and collaborative networks designed to help them grow
Strategic Lab Space Utilization in an Era of Funding Shortfalls
Facing research funding shortfalls, higher education institutions must prioritize and adapt existing laboratory spaces—through strategic renovations, reuse, and built environment improvements—to sustain scientific innovation, economic impact, and workforce stability even when new construction is limited
Best Practices in Building Flexible and Affordable Labs
Identify ways to reduce costs, improve flexibility, and shorten delivery times on lab renovations and new builds
What the Life Sciences Market Means for Your Next Lab
In a rapidly evolving life sciences market, designing for change may be the most important investment a lab owner can make
How Early Collaboration Shapes High-Performance Research Facilities
Early, intentional collaboration—through stakeholder alignment, iterative engagement, and thoughtful programming—enables lab projects to move beyond basic requirements and deliver flexible, high-performing research environments that stay on schedule, on budget, and aligned with user needs
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
Forensic Lab Secures Approval for $20M Expansion
After more than a decade of advocacy, the Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center secured approval for a $20 million expansion, advancing a project that links modernized lab infrastructure to improved forensic workflows, public safety, and justice delivery
Rapid Response, Lasting Asset: LSU Health’s EVT Wins Excellence in Small Project Design
The LSU Health Shreveport Center for Emerging Viral Threats demonstrates how a tightly integrated, budget-conscious design successfully delivered a flexible, high-containment BSL-2/BSL-3 laboratory that earned recognition for Excellence in Small Project Design