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What It Takes to Plan a Modern Lab Renovation
Complex laboratory renovations require careful planning, phased budgeting, flexible infrastructure, and proactive strategies to address code conflicts and unforeseen conditions, enabling facilities to adapt to evolving research needs and emerging technologies
Webinar Review: Beyond Casework—Designing High-Performance Lab Environments
In this on demand webinar, architect and lab planner Mark Paskanik explains how to design high-performance research facilities by integrating modular planning, automation, and "Good Lab Design" principles to balance technical requirements like vibration control with human-centric needs like wellness and collaboration
From Baked Beans to Scientific Breakthroughs: Northeastern’s Roux Institute
The Roux Institute project transforms Portland’s historic B&M Baked Beans factory into a flexible, all-electric research campus by combining adaptive reuse, advanced digital design, and Maine-sourced building materials to support evolving needs in digital engineering and life sciences
Why Lab Pros Keep Coming Back: 25 Years of the Lab Design Conference
The 25th annual Lab Design Conference, taking place May 11-14 in Orlando, brings together end users planning lab projects and the design and project teams who serve them for AIA-accredited sessions and networking focused on collaboration, connection, and advancing lab design
Integrating Diagnostics and Genetics Through Laboratory Design
Dynacare’s new precision medicine laboratory in Laval’s Biotech City consolidates diagnostic and genetics operations into a user-centered, highly integrated facility that enhances collaboration, streamlines workflows, maintains service continuity during transition, and advances efficient, patient-focused care
Custom University Labs: Attracting Top Talent with Design Collaborations
Universities are increasingly partnering with architects to design highly customized labs—often within aging buildings—to attract top-tier researchers, translating complex scientific needs into flexible, future-ready spaces that support cutting-edge discovery
An Operations-First Framework for Lab Renovations
Renovating active laboratories offers a cost-effective alternative to new construction but requires a highly strategic, operations-centered approach to upgrade facilities and integrate new technologies while minimizing disruptions to critical, ongoing work
Two Plead Guilty in Connection with Harvard Lab Explosion
After two Massachusetts men pleaded guilty to detonating a commercial firework inside a Harvard Medical School research lab, a Lab Design News conversation with safety expert Dan Scungio explores how safety-centric design strategies can help protect facilities against both accidental and intentional risks
Project Profile: Roche’s Institute of Human Biology, Building 92
Roche’s new Institute of Human Biology Building 92 in Basel is a highly flexible research facility designed to accelerate drug discovery by enabling advanced human-relevant model systems—such as organoids, organ-on-chip technologies, and computational biology—within an integrated, collaborative, and future-ready laboratory environment
Logical Workflow Solutions for Labs: Designing Around How Work Happens in Real Life
Laboratory designs often fall short when early decisions are made without direct input from end users, leading to subtle but persistent workflow inefficiencies that could be avoided by understanding and prioritizing real-world processes from the outset