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Collaborative Robotics (Cobots): Safety & Spacing
As collaborative robots (cobots) break free from traditional safety cages to work directly alongside scientists, laboratory architects must design specialized spatial buffer zones and ergonomic workflows that ensure human-robot collaboration is both efficient and harmless.
Power & Data Density for Liquid Handlers: Architecting for High-Throughput Utilities
As laboratories scale up their automation, the electrical and network infrastructure must evolve to support fleets of power-hungry liquid handlers like Hamiltons and Tecans. Strategic utility planning prevents catastrophic tripped breakers, ensures uninterruptible workflows, and guarantees seamless data transmission.
Using Occupancy Sensors to Right-Size Laboratory Design
Advances in thermal occupancy sensing and analytics are enabling data-driven laboratory planning by revealing real-world space utilization patterns without compromising privacy
AI and the Future of Lab Building Performance
As laboratory buildings grow more complex and future demands more uncertain, AI is helping project teams turn fragmented HVAC and building data into smarter forecasts, fewer performance surprises, and more resilient, right-sized facilities across the lab lifecycle
Ergonomics for Coding: Lighting & Acoustics in the Hybrid Lab
Bioinformaticians are coders, not chemists. Stop putting them on stools under fluorescent lights.
On-Premise vs. Cloud: Sizing the Lab Server Room
Don't let the server room melt. Calculating the massive cooling loads of AI-driven drug discovery.
Designing for Automation: Lessons Learned from the Next Generation of Smart Laboratories
Automation is transforming labs across every sector, but the real success factor isn’t the robots themselves—it’s how thoughtfully facilities are designed to support workflows, infrastructure, data, sustainability, and people
Revit and the Future of Laboratory Design
Revit is transforming laboratory design by improving coordination, reducing errors, and bridging communication between architects and scientists, ultimately creating more functional, collaborative, and user-friendly lab spaces
From Concept to Co-Innovation: How Syensqo Built a Future-Ready Biotech Lab
Syensqo’s newly inaugurated microbiology lab in Lyon exemplifies how user-driven design, advanced digital tools, and sustainable construction can dramatically expand testing capacity and accelerate the development of safe, eco-friendly solutions—offering practical lessons for building future-ready laboratory environments
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