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Professional Profile: Tad Costerison
Senior project architect Tad Costerison of Taylor Design discusses how curiosity, empathy, and close collaboration with scientists shape effective laboratory design, while highlighting emerging trends like automation and the growing need for flexible, human-centered research environments
How Documentation Fragmentation Threatens Lab Planning, Operations, and Compliance
Laboratory facilities often lose critical design, commissioning, and operational documentation over time due to fragmented, project-based recordkeeping, highlighting the need for a persistent, asset-linked identity system to ensure long-term continuity, compliance, and access to complete facility history
Lab Design Conference Speaker Profile: Alison Farmer
Alison Farmer’s session at the Lab Design Conference will equip lab end users and project teams with practical, data-driven strategies to identify and implement energy efficiency upgrades in laboratories, helping reduce both upfront design effort and long-term operating costs
Optimizing Existing Labs for New Equipment and Workflows
As life sciences research rapidly evolves, existing laboratories require frequent, often urgent renovations, making close collaboration between designers, engineers, trade partners, and clients essential to efficiently and cost-effectively reconfigure lab spaces to meet changing scientific needs
Professional Profile: Tanvi Solanki
From discovering lab design by chance to navigating complex research environments—and even unwinding with baking and a new outdoor pizza oven—Tanvi Solanki shares insights on adaptability, curiosity, and what it takes to succeed in this evolving field
Get the Lab You Really Want—Start with the Right Questions
Not knowing the right questions to ask during a lab build or renovation can lead to costly missteps and an uncomfortable research space
Webinar Review: Optimizing Lab Performance Through Casework and Furniture
Lab Design’s free on-demand webinar explores how strategic casework and furniture choices can improve laboratory performance, flexibility, safety, and long-term efficiency through expert insights and real-world design considerations
The Lab Is Home: Why the People Who Work in Scientific Spaces Should Never Feel Like an Afterthought
Laboratories are too often designed around equipment and efficiency rather than the human beings working in them, even though supporting people’s physical and mental needs is essential for accuracy, well-being, and the quality of scientific work
Lab Design Conference Speaker Profile: Chen Qin
At the 2026 Lab Design Conference, DLR Group’s Chen Qin will co-lead an interactive roundtable focused on how strategic material selection and chemical transparency can improve occupant health and environmental sustainability in laboratory design
Professional Profile: Cody Henderson
Cody Henderson has joined Mackey Mitchell Architects as an associate principal, bringing a technically driven, deeply collaborative approach to laboratory design—along with a passion for integrating AI-enabled safety, automation, and thoughtful listening to create research and learning environments that are efficient, responsive, and built to inspire discovery