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Event Preview: Academic Lab Design Digital Conference
On December 4, the Academic Lab Design Digital Conference offers a full day of live and on-demand webinars that qualify for AIA continuing education credit, providing architects, engineers, and higher education professionals with practical strategies, expert insights, and Q&A opportunities to create safer, more efficient, and collaborative academic laboratory environments
Enhancing Research Outcomes Through Sustainable and Innovative Lab Design
At the 2025 Lab Design Conference, Architectus principals Andrew Schunke and Diana Rosenthal showcased Flinders University’s Health and Medical Research Building—a winner of the 2025 Design Excellence Awards—that exemplifies how sustainable, culturally grounded, and user-centered design can elevate research, wellbeing, and collaboration in modern laboratory environments
Expanding Research Capabilities: Lessons from UBC’s Biodiversity Centre
UBC’s $45 million Beaty Biodiversity Centre expansion adds six stories of flexible, future-ready research and collaboration space, integrating ecological design features and specialized facilities to advance biodiversity studies and public engagement
Constructing a Lab for Extreme Conditions
The Korey Stringer Institute’s expansion shows how to successfully design a unique, specialized lab when there’s no blueprint to follow—using teamwork, flexible planning, and user input to overcome challenges and build a state-of-the-art facility
Inside Southern Miss’s State-of-the-Art Oyster Hatchery
Construction of a state-of-the-art oyster hatchery at The University of Southern Mississippi’s TCMAC Cedar Point campus aims to restore Mississippi’s oyster populations and advance aquaculture by producing up to one billion larvae annually while supporting research, selective breeding, and workforce development
Balancing Timber, Steel, and Research Innovation: A Hybrid Approach to Lab Design
The University of Arkansas’ I³R facility combines advanced labs, collaborative spaces, and a hybrid mass timber–steel design to foster interdisciplinary research, address complex societal challenges, and connect the university with the local community and industry
Emory University’s HSRB-II Reimagines Research Spaces, Wins Honorable Mention in 2025 Design Excellence Awards
Emory University’s HSRB-II seamlessly integrates wet and dry labs, core facilities, and collaborative spaces—the facility earned an Honorable Mention for Laboratory Program Integration in the 2025 Design Excellence Awards
Project Profile: Roy Blunt Hall Addition, Missouri State University
Missouri State University has completed an addition to Roy Blunt Hall, marking the first phase of a larger project designed to showcase science while providing flexible, sustainable facilities for future growth
Old Chem Gets a Modern Makeover with $190 Million Renovation
The University of Cincinnati’s $190M renovation of Old Chem modernizes laboratories and collaborative learning spaces, preserves historic features, and fosters interdisciplinary research and accessibility while supporting the university’s science education mission
Building Research Infrastructure Into a Live-Work-Learn District
USF’s Fletcher District will redevelop the former campus golf course into a 138-acre mixed-use community, with an academic research building anchoring a first phase that integrates laboratories with housing, retail, hospitality, and green space