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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
A Strategic Blueprint for Science Infrastructure: Inside a $100M+ Science Complex Expansion
From enrollment bottlenecks to modular lab design: How ISU is aligning institutional goals with flexible infrastructure for its 2027 groundbreaking
How AI Can Support a More Human-Centered Approach to Lab Design
A recent Lab Design webinar explores how AI and digital tools can speed up programming and research while keeping users, workflows, and professional judgment at the center of the design process
Building a Lab Around What Users Need
For Baptist Health Jacksonville’s Gwendolyn Robles, the process of planning a new central laboratory has meant challenging old assumptions, involving frontline staff, and giving the project team time to get it right
Mayo Clinic Labs Expands to Mississippi Logistics Hub
Mayo Clinic Laboratories will establish a new diagnostic facility in Southaven, MS, committing over $30 million to expand its national network—situated near Memphis International Airport and the FedEx World Hub, the site leverages turnkey building stock and transportation access to optimize high-throughput specimen processing