A low-angle view of a building. Flower beds are shown in the foreground, with a grassy courtyard surrounding a paved pathway to the building’s entrance. There are four wooden towers along the roofline ...

As lab designers, we are always striving to better understand the needs of lab scientists—the end users who our spaces are designed for. In practice, this means continuing to broaden our communication ...

Landmark labs: The Stata Center. There are few more dramatic illustrations of the vicissitudes of laboratory architecture than the contrast between Building 20 at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

The proliferation of EV battery cell manufacturing plants and EV battery pack assembly plants is producing a corresponding boom in the construction of battery test labs. These are needed to verify ...

Imagine stepping into a science laboratory in the 1970s: a space that’s cramped, cold and sterile, with researchers working in isolation for hours, meticulously recording observations with little ...

New scientific opportunities are creating demand for more and better laboratory space. For academic and teaching institutions, this demand often leads to renovating and expanding existing research ...

Are lab assessments truly evaluating students’ scientific abilities – or simply their physical agility in an inflexible environment? Find out how to design more accessible biomedical laboratory ...