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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 a Lab Around What Users Need
For Baptist Health Jacksonville’s Gwendolyn Robles, the process of planning a new central laboratory has meant challenging old assumptions, involving frontline staff, and giving the project team time to get it right
What Makes Lab Renovations Successful?
Presented at the 2026 Lab Design Conference, experts explored why successful laboratory renovations require more than updated finishes, sharing strategies for engaging stakeholders, overcoming infrastructure challenges, and designing adaptable, high-performance research environments
Upgraded Cell Banking Suites Support Growing CGT Demand
Minaris has upgraded its Philadelphia GMP cell banking suites to increase capacity, strengthen contamination control, and integrate manufacturing and testing workflows, providing advanced therapy developers with a more efficient and scalable path from cell banking through commercialization
Hides to Hearts: Historic Mill Transformed into Advanced Biotech Engineering Facility
Manchester’s historic Seal Tanning Building is being reimagined as a state-of-the-art biotechnology facility where United Therapeutics is advancing technologies that could one day 3D print human organs
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