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Expanding Research Capabilities: Lessons from UBC’s Biodiversity Centre
UBC’s $45 million Beaty Biodiversity Centre expansion adds six stories of flexible, future-ready research and collaboration space, integrating ecological design features and specialized facilities to advance biodiversity studies and public engagement
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
Choosing the Ideal Lab Design Partner for Long-Term Success
This guide outlines best practices for selecting the right architecture and design partner for any lab project—whether new construction or renovation—offering lasting insights on collaboration, communication, and long-term planning to help organizations build laboratories that are functional, flexible, and future-ready
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
How Flexibility and AI Are Reshaping the Future of Lab Real Estate
With AI-native biotechs changing how—and where—science happens, design teams are rethinking flexibility, retrofits, and speed-to-market strategies to prepare labs for the next decade of discovery
Constructing a Lab for Extreme Conditions
The Korey Stringer Institute’s expansion shows how to successfully design a unique, specialized lab when there’s no blueprint to follow—using teamwork, flexible planning, and user input to overcome challenges and build a state-of-the-art facility
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
Building Better Labs with Mass Timber: Sustainability, Speed, and Wellness in Design
Mass timber is transforming laboratory design by offering a low-carbon, high-performance alternative to steel and concrete, enabling faster construction, precision-engineered research spaces, and human-centered environments that support wellness, collaboration, and sustainability
Inside Southern Miss’s State-of-the-Art Oyster Hatchery
Construction of a state-of-the-art oyster hatchery at The University of Southern Mississippi’s TCMAC Cedar Point campus aims to restore Mississippi’s oyster populations and advance aquaculture by producing up to one billion larvae annually while supporting research, selective breeding, and workforce development