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Lab Design Conference Speaker Profile: Gwendolyn Robles
Don’t miss Gwendolyn Robles’ session at the 2026 Lab Design Conference, where she and her team will share creative strategies, LEAN-driven workflow tips, and lessons from transforming a landlocked 1970s lab into a modern blood bank—register by December 31, 2025, to secure early-bird pricing and gain insights that can inspire your own lab design projects
Tell Your Lab’s Story: A Guide to the Design Excellence Awards
The Design Excellence Awards recognize innovation in laboratory design across four categories—here’s how to create a standout submission that tells your lab’s story and demonstrates its impact and unique features
The ABCs of CBA: Choosing By Advantages for Lab Design
The Choosing By Advantages tool offers a systematic and objective framework for lab design teams and owners to make informed decisions by defining options, analyzing factors, and clarifying trade-offs to determine the best value for their projects
From Residence to Research: Adaptive Reuse Lessons at Mount Sinai
The transformation of Mount Sinai’s 60-year-old nurse residence into a cutting-edge Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health highlights the challenges of adaptive reuse—tight floor heights, structural limits, and code compliance—and offers key lessons in due diligence, infrastructure replacement, and creative problem-solving for future lab projects
Lab Design Conference Speaker Profile: Kelly Sullivan, PhD
Don’t miss Kelly Sullivan’s hands-on workshop on Collaborative Lab Planning at the 2026 Lab Design Conference—register now to secure your seat and learn practical strategies for designing flexible, efficient, and future-ready labs
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
Celebrate Your Vision: The 2026 Lab Design Excellence Awards Are Now Open!
Lab Design is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Design Excellence Awards, offering a chance to gain global recognition for outstanding lab and research facility design—entries are open until December 5, 2025
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.
Transforming 100,000 SF of Retail into a LEED-Certified Lab
Invitae’s transformation of the abandoned Morrisville Outlet Mall into a 125,000-sf LEED-certified laboratory headquarters demonstrates how rigorous site assessment, flexible design, strong collaboration, proactive engagement with authorities, and creative problem-solving can turn a failing retail property into a sustainable, high-performance research facility
The Human-Centric Laboratory: A Forward-Thinking Case Study
Integrating multisensory design, equity, diversity, and inclusion, biophilia, technology, and physiological considerations into laboratory design creates human-centric spaces that enhance researchers' comfort, health, and overall well-being