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Turning Offices into Labs: Lessons from a High-Speed Conversion
As life science organizations explore office-to-lab conversions, project teams must overcome significant infrastructure, operational, and scheduling challenges. A case study from the 2026 Lab Design Conference highlights strategies for evaluating existing buildings and managing complex laboratory relocations
Secure Lab Expands Digital Forensics Access for Rural Agencies
The University of Southern Mississippi’s new Rural Digital Forensics Initiative laboratory balances secure evidence handling, forensic operations, and hands-on education within a renovated campus space designed to expand access for rural law enforcement agencies
What Makes Lab Renovations Successful?
Presented at the 2026 Lab Design Conference, experts explored why successful laboratory renovations require more than updated finishes, sharing strategies for engaging stakeholders, overcoming infrastructure challenges, and designing adaptable, high-performance research environments
Laboratories Need an Identity Layer for Their Building Records
A structural failure during a Manhattan building conversion exposed the risks of disconnected facility records. For laboratories, where spaces evolve constantly, maintaining a continuous history of every system and modification may require a new approach to how facility identity is managed
Turning Industrial Space into a Modern Lab
Converting industrial space into a high-performance laboratory requires more than infrastructure upgrades. At the 2026 Lab Design Conference, Mukesh Jani explained why stakeholder engagement, healthy workplaces, and long-term planning were the keys to success
Yale Peabody Museum Expansion Wins AIA Award for Design Excellence
The award-winning Yale Peabody Museum expansion demonstrates how thoughtful laboratory planning, advanced building systems, and historic preservation can come together to create next-generation research environments
What Makes a Lab Building Competitive Today?
Why are some research buildings attracting tenants while others remain vacant?
Cleanroom Renovations to Support Groundbreaking Ancient DNA Research
A new ancient DNA laboratory inside Vanderbilt's renovated VINSE cleanroom demonstrates how flexible cleanroom design can support emerging biomedical research while meeting the stringent contamination-control requirements of genetic analysis
USGS Fisheries Research Station Prepares for Move to Upgraded Facility
The relocation of a USGS fisheries research facility highlights how early planning and interagency collaboration can help maintain scientific operations during a laboratory transition
From 'No, We Can't Put It on a Barge' to a Better Blood Bank: Lessons from a Landlocked Lab Renovation
During the 2026 Lab Design Conference, Baptist Health System lab staff shared how rethinking workflows, engaging end users, and embracing flexibility helped transform a decades-old blood bank laboratory into a modern, future-ready facility