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Life Science Center Vienna: A Convergence Hub for AI and Biomedical Research
The €170-million Life Science Center Vienna will create a research hub near the Vienna BioCenter that integrates wet-lab life sciences and AI computing infrastructure to strengthen Vienna’s growing ecosystem for data-driven biomedical research
GMP vs. Non-GMP Zones: Managing Personnel Flow
By designing rigorous airlocks and unidirectional gowning rooms, architects can enforce strict personnel flow, bridging the gap between uncontrolled office environments and classified GMP manufacturing zones.
Bioreactor Facility Design: Ceiling Heights and Utility Needs
By engineering high bay lab designs with scalable overhead utility drops, facility planners can safely accommodate the immense vertical and infrastructural demands of 500L+ skid-mounted bioreactors.
Pilot Plant Design: Bridging the Gap Between R&D and Manufacturing
By engineering flexible, hybrid spaces that accommodate both bench-scale analytics and industrial-sized equipment, facility planners can accelerate the transition from successful R&D to full-scale commercial production.
Bumping Into Breakthroughs
Tall research buildings tend to fragment collaboration, so successful “vertical campuses” must intentionally design circulation, shared spaces, and social hubs that encourage frequent cross-disciplinary encounters and conversations across floors
Watch On Demand: Expert Insights on Cleanroom Design
Lab Design’s on-demand webinar, How to Build a Cleanroom, guides viewers through the full cleanroom lifecycle, showing how to design and maintain adaptable facilities that meet evolving research, manufacturing, and regulatory needs
Lab Design Conference Speaker Profile: Chen Qin
At the 2026 Lab Design Conference, DLR Group’s Chen Qin will co-lead an interactive roundtable focused on how strategic material selection and chemical transparency can improve occupant health and environmental sustainability in laboratory design
Transforming Office into Innovation: Inside Avantor’s New Jersey Center
Avantor’s new Innovation Center in Bridgewater, NJ, transforms a traditional office building into a cutting-edge, collaborative lab ecosystem—combining BSL-2 labs, cleanrooms, pilot production, and integrated office and training spaces—to accelerate next-generation biopharmaceutical and materials research
The Importance of Early Planning for Laboratory Equipment and Instrumentation
Laboratory expansions and relocations succeed only when facility planning fully accounts for the interdependence of intellectual property, people, and especially instrumentation, since overlooked equipment requirements can compromise workflows, data quality, and overall scientific productivity
Smarter Labs: AI, Compliance, and Energy in Sync
independent data layers, continuous monitoring, and AI-driven analytics are transforming laboratory facilities by improving transparency, detecting operational drift, sustaining lifecycle performance, and enabling safer, more energy-efficient, and data-informed design decisions