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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
Designing Labs for an Uncertain Future
At the 2026 Lab Design Conference, Ballinger's Gregory Muth and Katherine Wohlsen shared how designing for uncertainty allowed Brown University's newest life sciences building to respond to changing research priorities, funding challenges, and evolving work styles without requiring major redesigns
The Question Your Lab Design Kickoff Is Missing
More client input doesn’t necessarily lead to better lab design—an operational gatekeeper can help design teams get the right information, from the right people, at the right time, before critical decisions are locked in
Designing Labs for What Comes Next: Inside a 15-Year Masterplan
Ireland’s Technological University of the Shannon is planning new research facilities, postgraduate hubs and industry-facing innovation spaces while using adaptive reuse and flexible planning to accommodate changing research needs
Harris-Stowe State University Breaks Ground on Flexible STEM Center
Harris-Stowe State University’s new $62 million STEM Center will combine flexible laboratories, research spaces, classrooms, and collaborative environments designed to support current programs and future workforce needs
Building Labs That Grow With Startups
Life sciences incubators give emerging companies access to flexible laboratory space, shared equipment, operational support, and collaborative networks designed to help them grow
The Quantum Readiness Recipe: Evaluating Facility Needs
As quantum research accelerates, laboratory planners must balance precision engineering, flexible infrastructure, and early stakeholder collaboration to create facilities capable of supporting technologies that have yet to be invented