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Protecting Long-Term Laboratory Building Performance: Designing Beyond Day One
Laboratory facilities achieve the best long-term performance when they are designed not only for current research needs, but also for decades of adaptability, maintainability, system reliability, and verifiable life-safety performance through proactive planning, integrated documentation, and ongoing building system management
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
Anchoring NY’s $10B Plan: Inside NanoFab Reflection’s 22-Foot Cleanroom
Engineers custom-designed a massive 50,000-sf cleanroom to isolate vibration, optimize airflow, and accommodate ASML’s revolutionary 200-ton High NA EUV lithography tool
GSA and FDA Break Ground on $228M BSL-3 Food Safety Lab in Denver
The $228 million Denver Federal Center project introduces the FDA's only Biosafety Level 3 facility west of the Mississippi, blending advanced containment engineering with classical civic design
Key Design Considerations for Cleanroom/Dryroom Facilities
The rapid growth of AI, data centers, and advanced manufacturing is driving increased demand for cleanrooms and dryrooms designed to provide strict humidity, contamination, and temperature control for sensitive products, research, and manufacturing processes
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
Professional Profile: John Volence
Lab Design spoke to John Volence at Precis Engineering + Architecture about flexible, user-focused lab HVAC design and life sciences project delivery
Using Occupancy Sensors to Right-Size Laboratory Design
Advances in thermal occupancy sensing and analytics are enabling data-driven laboratory planning by revealing real-world space utilization patterns without compromising privacy
AI and the Future of Lab Building Performance
As laboratory buildings grow more complex and future demands more uncertain, AI is helping project teams turn fragmented HVAC and building data into smarter forecasts, fewer performance surprises, and more resilient, right-sized facilities across the lab lifecycle
A Lab Built for What’s Next in HVAC and Data Center Cooling
Daikin Applied’s new R&D lab features nine flexible test cells designed to replicate extreme data center and HVAC operating conditions, integrating scalable infrastructure, precise airflow control, and real-world testing capabilities to support both current and future product development