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Why Laboratory Sustainability Efforts Need Better Data, Not Just Better Technology
As laboratories face increasing pressure to meet sustainability goals and building performance requirements, reliable facility data is becoming essential for benchmarking energy use, validating upgrades, securing incentives, and demonstrating long-term compliance
USDA Opens Applications for Historic $125M Infrastructure Investment
A historic $125 million federal investment targets deferred maintenance, lab modernization, and new construction across US land-grant universities
How Predictive Modeling De-Risks Pharma Water Infrastructure
Predictive engineering platform allows lab planners and AEC teams to model utility demand, carbon emissions, and equipment sizing during conceptual design
A Major First Step in a Decade-Long Vision
Construction has begun on Project GB1 at Norwich Research Park in the UK, a flexible 63,000-sf lab and office building marking the start of a £200+ million, 10-year expansion to support growth in agri-food, health, and environmental sciences
Supporting the Circular Economy with a Next-Gen Testing Lab
Driven by lessons learned from inefficient workflows, UW–Stevens Point's new Compostability Testing Laboratory combines user-centered design, flexible infrastructure, and specialized testing environments to create a more efficient and adaptable research facility
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
Sustainability by Design: L’Oréal’s Prize-Winning Research Hub
The L’Oréal North American Research & Innovation Center earned a Design Excellence Award for seamlessly integrating advanced laboratory functionality with sustainability and human-centered design to create a high-performance, collaboration-driven research environment
Aggie Square Wins Excellence in Whole Building/Holistic Design—New Build in Design Excellence Awards
Aggie Square at UC Davis, winner of the Excellence in Whole Building/Holistic Design—New Build category in the 2026 Design Excellence Awards, brings together research, industry, education, and community functions within a connected ecosystem, where shared spaces and “soft” programmatic connections support everyday interaction and large-scale collaboration
Future-Ready Labs Take Focus at Lab Design Conference in Orlando
The Lab Design Conference’s second day of sessions highlighted adaptive reuse, sustainability, automation, and user-centered design through a mix of expert-led presentations and interactive discussions