Value Engineering
Optimising every decision from the first sketch: space, power loads, mechanical sizing, materials and life-cycle cost, so spend follows what the science actually needs.
Read more → About · Design Philosophy
Our design philosophy
The principles that govern how we spend your capital, how we treat energy and materials, and how a laboratory is expected to behave for the twenty years after we hand it over.
The research facility of tomorrow cannot simply be a larger version of yesterday’s lab.
It has to be fundamentally different.
Five principles govern every Arena design.
Sustainable Design Development
Research facilities use around five times the energy per square foot of an office. We design that number down without touching health and safety standards.
Read more →Flexibility by Design
Discovery changes direction. Modular casework, quick-connect services and planned service spines let the laboratory follow it without a shutdown.
Read more →Safety by Design
Compliance that depends on discipline eventually fails. We design so the safe route is also the shortest one.
Read more →The Intelligent Laboratory
The future of the R&D laboratory is no longer just automated. It is intelligent, and the building has to be provisioned for that.
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