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Choosing the Right Vendors for Your Lab Build or Renovation
Successfully selecting vendors for a lab build or renovation requires careful coordination, strategic partnerships, and thoughtful evaluation to ensure long-term efficiency, safety, and innovation
Choosing the Ideal Lab Design Partner for Long-Term Success
This guide outlines best practices for selecting the right architecture and design partner for any lab project—whether new construction or renovation—offering lasting insights on collaboration, communication, and long-term planning to help organizations build laboratories that are functional, flexible, and future-ready
How Flexibility and AI Are Reshaping the Future of Lab Real Estate
With AI-native biotechs changing how—and where—science happens, design teams are rethinking flexibility, retrofits, and speed-to-market strategies to prepare labs for the next decade of discovery
Building Better Labs with Mass Timber: Sustainability, Speed, and Wellness in Design
Mass timber is transforming laboratory design by offering a low-carbon, high-performance alternative to steel and concrete, enabling faster construction, precision-engineered research spaces, and human-centered environments that support wellness, collaboration, and sustainability
Minimizing Risk: Strategies for Design and Construction
Laboratory design and construction teams can minimize risk—and improve project outcomes—by embedding proactive risk management strategies, clear communication, collaborative culture, and advanced planning tools into every phase of a project.
Twenty Years After Katrina: What Laboratory Designers Can Learn About Resilience
Two decades after Hurricane Katrina exposed the vulnerabilities of critical scientific infrastructure, laboratory designers and builders are embracing a holistic, performance-based approach—leveraging digital tools, modular construction, and community-integrated planning—to ensure labs not only survive disasters but sustain research, protect communities, and accelerate recovery
How Wayne State is Preparing Labs for What’s Next
Wayne State University has broken ground on a $200 million, 160,000‑sf Health Sciences Research Building designed to accelerate discoveries, foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, and connect researchers directly with the Detroit community
Renovating Laboratories: Key Concerns and Challenges in Transforming Existing Spaces
Laboratory renovation offers sustainability and cost advantages over new construction but poses complex challenges—including structural limits, MEP upgrades, safety compliance, and stakeholder coordination—that require careful planning and collaboration to create flexible, high-performing research spaces
Fire Safety Concerns in Laboratory Design
Fire safety in laboratories requires holistic, intentional design that integrates code compliance, hazard mitigation, resilient infrastructure, and support for staff preparedness to prevent, contain, and respond to incidents while protecting people, research, and operations
Designing Flexible Academic Labs for a Changing Research Landscape
Academic laboratory renovations are increasingly replacing new construction, with success hinging on early stakeholder engagement, infrastructure upgrades, and flexible, light-filled designs that balance safety, adaptability, and recruitment goals