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Why Precision Outperforms Excess in Cleanroom Design
Performance-based cleanroom design uses airflow modeling, process requirements, and validation to deliver the cleanliness needed without unnecessary infrastructure, energy use, or maintenance costs
Rethinking Lab Expansion in a Changing Market
Activation Capital’s decision to expand within its existing Bio+Tech Center illustrates how organizations can align facility investments with market conditions, funding realities, and long-term growth goals
What Post-Occupancy Experience Reveals About Designing for Research
Months after opening, Chesapeake Bay Hall is demonstrating how thoughtful decisions around infrastructure, flexibility, collaboration, and occupant experience can shape the long-term performance of a research facility
Building Better Labs Through Collaborative Discussion at the Lab Design Conference
Lab owners, architects, engineers, and planners joined forces at the 2026 Lab Design Conference to tackle academic lab design challenges, sharing practical solutions and crowdsourcing best practices on everything from stakeholder engagement to flexibility and adaptive reuse
It’s Good to Be Back!
After a two-year hiatus, Lori Ambrusch returns to Design Between the Lines to explore emerging trends, recurring design questions, industry insights, and the topics readers want to discuss
What Goes Into Designing a BSL Lab?
Join this free Lab Design webinar to explore the key architectural, engineering, and operational considerations behind designing safe, functional, and adaptable BSL laboratories
Designing for the Unknown: Inside RTI’s Expanded Pilot Xcelerator
Designed around flexibility rather than a single process, the expanded facility gives RTI room to support emerging technologies that may not yet exist
AI Won’t Replace Scientists—It Will Change How We Design Labs
From flexible lab modules to interchangeable bench and robotics space, AI and automation are prompting new questions about how laboratories should be designed for the years ahead
A Sustainable Approach to Bioanalytical Lab Design
Sartorius’ Ann Arbor bioanalytical facility demonstrates how laboratory performance requirements, sustainability goals, and site challenges can be balanced through careful planning and multidisciplinary collaboration
Strong Foundations Start With Better Questions
Originally presented at the 2026 Lab Design Conference in Orlando, Kelly Smyth, AIA, shares practical strategies for translating scientific workflows into effective laboratory programming. Watch the presentation on demand to explore how early discovery and informed questioning can support safer, more functional lab environments