Insights on lab and R&D design
Practical guidance for people planning laboratories and the workplaces around them.
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?
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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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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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
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
Automation, adaptability, safety, data and people: five things to plan from day one when you build a new laboratory.
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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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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 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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Converting an Office Into a Lab: How to Choose the Right Premises
Not every office can become a lab. Here is what to check before you commit: ceiling height, floor loads, vibration, services, exhaust and approvals.
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Pain Points Experienced by Lab Users When Setting Up a Lab
Lab planning asks a lot of busy people. Here are the common pain points, why your input matters, and how to make it easier.
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Things About Laboratory Architecture That No One Talks About
Labs are more than white walls and workstations. Five aspects of lab architecture that shape how scientists think, work and thrive.
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You Never Stop Learning: Why Lab Design Demands Continuous Learning
Science, technology and regulations never stand still, and neither can lab design. Here is why continuous learning matters for your project.
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Why Do Lab Users Need Vibrant Laboratory Spaces?
For anyone working in a laboratory, the environment is not just a backdrop. It is a tool.
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Why Hire a Laboratory Architect? 7 Things They Bring to Your Lab Project
A lab is one of the most demanding buildings there is. Here is why it needs a specialist to bring all of its parts together.
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The Biggest Challenge in Lab Design: Getting the Right Brief
Most lab design problems do not start on the drawing board. They start with a brief that was incomplete before the first line was drawn.
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The Design Brief: The Most Crucial Part of a Lab Project
Before any good solution comes a good diagnosis. Here is how to build a lab design brief that sets your project up to succeed.
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Understanding Lab Needs from the Users' Perspective
Every laboratory should be customised to the needs of its users. Here is why their voices matter more than any guideline, and how they can help shape a better lab.
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The Hidden Cost of Overlooking User Comfort in Laboratory Planning
When user comfort and requirements are overlooked, the price is paid in your researchers' productivity, efficiency and wellbeing.
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Why Fast Design Is Not the Best Design for Your Lab
Designing a laboratory is not an overnight job. Here is why the time you give your design is one of the best investments in your lab.
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The Role of Ergonomics in Modern Laboratory Design
A lab supports research and innovation. But first, it has to support the people doing the research.
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9 Safety Features to Design Into Every Laboratory
Safe labs are not made safe by procedures alone. Safety starts with the design.
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How Do Regulatory Standards Make Laboratory Designs More Efficient?
Standards are often seen as hurdles. Designed in from the start, they are one of the best tools for building labs that work.
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Sustainable Lab Design: Balancing Safety, Science and Sustainability
Labs are powerhouses of innovation, but they also have a high environmental impact. Here is how good design can reduce it without compromising safety or performance.
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How Technology Is Enabling Efficiency in Day-to-Day Lab Operations
Research environments are changing fast. Here is how technology is making everyday lab work smarter, safer and easier.
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Is Technology the Future of Workplace Design?
Yes. But the offices that win will not be the ones with the most gadgets. They will be the ones that use technology to understand how people actually work.
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6 Emerging Technologies Transforming Research Labs Today
From IoT monitoring to robotic automation and 3D printing, six technologies reshaping how labs are designed and run.
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How Technology in Research Labs Is Empowering Communities
The economic and social impact of lab technology: who gets to do research, what it costs, and what it feels like to work there.
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Laboratory Designing & Planning
The basics, the detail planning considerations, and where trends in lab design are heading.
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Basic Architectural Design Considerations for a Laboratory
Wet vs dry lab classification, planning concepts, circulation, layout dimensions, and the mistakes worth avoiding.
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Laboratory Facilities for the Future
Flexibility, sustainability and virtual collaboration are reshaping how research facilities get designed and built.
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Archi-take on Laboratory Furniture
Materials, modules, standard bench dimensions, fittings and the standards to check before you buy.
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How to Design Research Environments in Academic Settings?
What separates a university or college lab from an industry lab, and seven considerations for designing academic labs.
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Form follows Function v/s Function follows Form
What is the best approach for designing a laboratory: aesthetics, function, or a balance of both?
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How to Design a Science Laboratory for Schools: 7 Key Considerations
A school lab is where science stops being a chapter and starts being an experience. Here is how to design one that is safe, compliant and genuinely inspiring.
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Why Should Organisations Design Workplaces that Enhance Employee Well-Being?
What employee wellbeing means, and why it belongs in how you design the workplace.
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How Does Colour Psychology Benefit Laboratory Interior Design?
How warm, cool and neutral palettes affect focus, stress and productivity in lab spaces.
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Trailblazing Laboratory Design
Over two decades of specialising exclusively in lab design, and where the firm is headed next.
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