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Smart Lab Sensors: The Internet of Things in Research
From freezer door alerts to real-time ambient monitoring, the connected lab is no longer a future concept—it's a design decision you make today. A guide to the IoT ecosystem for lab designers, architects, and facility managers.
Explosion-Proof Lab Design: Electrical Classifications for Pilot Plants
When your process scales up from milliliters to gallons, a standard laboratory outlet can become a detonator. Here's what architects, engineers, and lab managers need to know about hazardous location electrical classifications before breaking ground on a pilot plant.
Walk-In Fume Hood Design: Distillation & Scale-Up Safety
By utilizing floor-mounted architectures, laboratory planners can safely enclose massive distillation columns and pilot-scale reactors, ensuring proper airflow dynamics while containing hazardous vapors during chemical scale-up.
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