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How Can Lab Design Alleviate Technological Challenges in the Lab?

Technology is evolving fast. Here is how lab design keeps pace, so new tools become an addition rather than a disruption.

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How Is It Different to Design Workplaces for Science Professionals?
Workplace

How Is It Different to Design Workplaces for Science Professionals?

Researchers move between lab work, analysis, collaboration and reflection. Here is how to design the spaces around the lab for all of it.

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Lab user recording data by hand next to a digital device
Lab design

How Is Technology Viewed in Indian Labs?

Why do many labs still rely on manual methods when digital tools exist? The answer has more to do with people than technology.

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Lab design

How Many Design Revisions Are Too Many?

There is no standard number. The better question is when, why and how a design should change.

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Designing Labs for 24x7 Operations
Lab design

Designing Labs for 24x7 Operations

Experiments run around the clock, but most labs are designed for daytime. Here is how to design for the night shift too.

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Planning a New Lab? 5 Things You Must Consider for Your Facility
Lab design

Planning a New Lab? 5 Things You Must Consider for Your Facility

Automation, adaptability, safety, data and people: five things to plan from day one when you build a new laboratory.

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Scientist focused on an experiment in a modern digital laboratory
Lab design

Manual Processes vs Digital Systems in Labs

Every hour spent on manual upkeep is an hour taken from discovery. Here is how digital systems, and the right infrastructure, give it back.

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Scientists working together in a bright, technology-integrated laboratory
Lab design

Mental and Intellectual Impact of Technology in Research Labs

Technology has made labs faster and safer. Here is how it affects the people using it, and how design keeps the balance.

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Multifunctional office with a mix of focus, collaboration and breakout spaces
Workplace

Multifunctional Office Design: How to Maximise Workspace Utility

People work in different ways. Here is how zones, modular furniture, smart storage and wellbeing spaces create an office for all of them.

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