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Share Your Lab Design Journey at the 2026 Lab Design Conference
Speaker proposals are being accepted until August 8 for the 2026 Lab Design Conference in Orlando—lab managers, end users, and design professionals are invited to share real-world lessons from lab renovations, new builds, expansions, and sustainability-focused projects to help others navigate the challenges of planning, building, and optimizing laboratory spaces
Water Lab Combines Sustainability, Human-Centered Design to Win 2025 Design Excellence Award
The Aquon Water Research & Analysis Laboratory in Houten, Netherlands—designed by Vakwerk Architecten—won the 2025 Excellence in Sustainable Design Award for its innovative integration of adaptable, energy-efficient systems and biobased materials that prioritize both environmental performance and human wellbeing
Designing Toward Absolute Zero: Practical Strategies for Carbon-Neutral Laboratories
At the 2025 Lab Design Conference, Kristen DiStefano of Atelier Ten and Ryan Velasco of ZGF urged the industry to move beyond net zero and embrace absolute zero carbon design, emphasizing that through passive, all-electric systems, adaptive reuse, renewable energy, and carbon-sequestering materials, laboratories can lead the way in redefining sustainable architecture for high-performance environments
Call for Speakers: Share Your Expertise at the 2026 Lab Design Conference
Lab Design is now accepting speaker proposals for the 2026 Lab Design Conference, prioritizing sessions that feature lab end users, share real-world lessons learned, and offer practical, health- and safety-focused insights for lab planning, renovation, and optimization—submissions are due by August 8
Transforming a Legacy: NIH Renovation Project Honored in 2025 Design Excellence Awards
The NIH has completed a transformative renovation of the E-Wing of Building 10, a 250,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project designed by Perkins&Will that modernizes the historic Clinical Center to support cutting-edge translational research, patient care, and biomedical education—an effort recognized in the 2025 Design Excellence Awards for Whole Building/Holistic Design—Renovated
The Future of Labs—Designing for Automation
At the 2025 Lab Design Conference, architect Yvonne Choe emphasized that as automation and AI transform laboratory workflows, infrastructure, and staffing, lab design must evolve to support not only robotic systems but also the human collaboration and innovation that drive scientific discovery
On Demand Presentation: Sustainability: A Non-Negotiable Priority
This webinar from the 2025 Lab Design Conference explores how data-driven material selection can help laboratories reduce their environmental footprint and advance sustainability goals—such as lowering embodied carbon and supporting circular economy principles—by leveraging third-party certifications, lifecycle data, and transparent reporting, while offering practical strategies and real-world insights for implementing responsible, low-emission material choices in lab design
On Demand Presentation: Safe Sustainable Design: How Ductless Filtering Fume Hoods Help Labs Reach Their Sustainability Goals
This webinar from the 2025 Lab Design Conference explores how ductless filtering fume hoods can help laboratories reduce their environmental footprint and achieve sustainability goals—such as Zero Net Energy and LEED Platinum—without compromising safety, by aligning with safety standards, improving indoor air quality, and providing real-world best practices and case studies for strategic implementation
The 25th Annual Lab Design Conference Heads to Orlando in 2026
The 2026 Lab Design Conference will gather leading professionals in laboratory planning, design, and construction in Orlando, FL for a dynamic program of expert-led sessions, networking, workshops, and exclusive lab tours focused on innovation, sustainability, and real-world solutions
Recap of the 2025 Lab Design Conference in Denver
The 24th annual Lab Design Conference in Denver brought together architects, engineers, lab planners, and facility managers for workshops, expert-led sessions, lab tours, and networking—additionally, this year’s award winners were honored and the location of the 2026 conference was announced