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I2SL Helps Identify and Prioritize Energy-Saving Opportunities in Lab Buildings
I2SL’s new AIM Report helps lab owners, designers, and engineers identify, prioritize, and quantify energy-saving opportunities across diverse lab facilities, supporting business cases for efficiency upgrades and decarbonization efforts
Renovating Laboratories: Key Concerns and Challenges in Transforming Existing Spaces
Laboratory renovation offers sustainability and cost advantages over new construction but poses complex challenges—including structural limits, MEP upgrades, safety compliance, and stakeholder coordination—that require careful planning and collaboration to create flexible, high-performing research spaces
A High-Rise Laboratory That Redefines Research Infrastructure
KU Leuven’s new 14-story, 30,000-square-meter BioScience Centre brings 500 researchers under one roof in a high-rise lab designed for sustainability, flexibility, and collaboration, with input from users shaping everything from co-location strategies to modular layouts and future-ready infrastructure
Advancing Efficiency in Laboratory Design: Actionable Insights from NREL
In the closing session of the 2025 Lab Design Conference, experts from NREL highlighted how the Smart Labs framework offers a practical path to significantly reduce laboratory energy use—without sacrificing safety—through data-driven ventilation strategies, stakeholder collaboration, and continuous operational improvement
Webinar Preview: How to Build a Sustainable Automated Lab
Lab Design will host a free webinar on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 1:00 pm ET to explore how automation, robotics, and AI are transforming research workflows and what lab planners, designers, and end users can do to create sustainable, flexible facilities that meet both today’s and tomorrow’s needs
From Old to High-Performing: Navigating the Complexities of Breathing New Life into Existing Buildings
Outdated buildings—including a federal lab and a former big-box store—can be successfully transformed into high-performing, flexible laboratory spaces by leveraging early feasibility studies, interdisciplinary collaboration, and design strategies focused on sustainability, adaptability, and occupant well-being
Creating the Future from the Past: An Environmental Case Study
At the 2025 Lab Design Conference, Leo A Daly’s Larry Wright presented the full gut renovation of the Armed Forces Radiobiological Research Institute, illustrating how outdated, highly technical mid-century research buildings can be sustainably transformed—preserving architectural legacy, improving animal research operations, and achieving LEED Silver certification—through thoughtful planning, structural innovation, and reduced embodied carbon
Modernizing a Mid-Century Lab for 21st Century Research
The renovation of the University of Georgia’s Cedar Street Building C demonstrates how aging research facilities can be transformed into modern, flexible, and sustainable lab environments while honoring their historic character
Aggie Square and the Rise of Integrated Innovation Hubs
Aggie Square in Sacramento exemplifies a new model for innovation districts by blending academic, industry, and community uses within a flexible, all-electric research campus—prioritizing openness, sustainability, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver a high-performance, inclusive environment for next-generation research and development
Webinar Preview: Sustainability Considerations in Small Laboratory Renovations and Refits
Join us for this webinar to learn how architects, lab planners, and lab managers can approach small laboratory renovations in ways that achieve meaningful sustainability goals without relying on third-party certifications, using a flexible, collaborative strategy