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Yale Peabody Museum Expansion Wins AIA Award for Design Excellence
The award-winning Yale Peabody Museum expansion demonstrates how thoughtful laboratory planning, advanced building systems, and historic preservation can come together to create next-generation research environments
What Makes a Lab Building Competitive Today?
Why are some research buildings attracting tenants while others remain vacant?
Lab Users Shape Carnegie Mellon’s New Labs
By involving teaching faculty and laboratory users throughout planning, Carnegie Mellon transformed years of experience in outdated spaces into a new learning environment designed around student workflows, collaboration, and flexibility
The Conversations That Make or Break a Research Building
Early planning and design decisions shape the long-term success of research buildings, making clear communication and stakeholder input essential to creating laboratories that perform for decades
Why Holistic Planning Leads to Better Labs: On the Floor at the Lab Design Conference
In this video interview from the 2026 Lab Design Conference, Aimée Smith of RWDI and the Lab Design editorial board shares practical advice for designing high-performing, sustainable laboratories