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Secure Lab Expands Digital Forensics Access for Rural Agencies
The University of Southern Mississippi’s new Rural Digital Forensics Initiative laboratory balances secure evidence handling, forensic operations, and hands-on education within a renovated campus space designed to expand access for rural law enforcement agencies
What Makes Lab Renovations Successful?
Presented at the 2026 Lab Design Conference, experts explored why successful laboratory renovations require more than updated finishes, sharing strategies for engaging stakeholders, overcoming infrastructure challenges, and designing adaptable, high-performance research environments
Holding the Line on Cleanroom Pressure: Keeping GMP Operations in Control
Designing, monitoring, and maintaining differential pressure to protect sterility and compliance
Beyond Equipment: The Hidden Impact of Laboratory Infrastructure
How integrated infrastructure helps laboratories improve safety and sustainability
Inside the Facility Advancing Ocean Robotics Research
A new facility at the University of Rhode Island brings together ocean engineering, robotics, and marine science with a purpose-built test tank, high-bay staging area, flexible labs, and collaborative spaces designed to move technologies from prototype to deployment
Decarbonizing Labs Through Thermal Energy Networks
As laboratories face growing pressure to decarbonize, thermal energy networks offer a path beyond building-by-building electrification. Charlie Marino and Victor Sanchez shared how campuses can leverage shared infrastructure, heat recovery, and strategic planning to reduce emissions, during their 2026 Lab Design Conference session
Laboratories Need an Identity Layer for Their Building Records
A structural failure during a Manhattan building conversion exposed the risks of disconnected facility records. For laboratories, where spaces evolve constantly, maintaining a continuous history of every system and modification may require a new approach to how facility identity is managed
Project Profile: University of North Texas at Dallas—STEM Building
The University of North Texas at Dallas’ new STEM Building will provide flexible teaching, research, and collaborative spaces that support interdisciplinary STEM education, advanced research, and expanded opportunities for first-generation and community-based learners
Building Tomorrow's Lab Design Leaders
As senior leaders prepare for retirement and new roles, science and technology firms are embedding mentorship, knowledge sharing, and leadership development into everyday practice to build the next generation of laboratory design leaders
Modernizing a Cleanroom for Next-Gen Semiconductor Research
Binghamton University's upgraded Nanofabrication Laboratory demonstrates how careful planning, infrastructure modernization, and cross-disciplinary collaboration can transform an aging cleanroom into a flexible research and workforce development asset