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The Future of Lab Automation: Opportunities, Challenges, and Sustainable Design Solutions
The future of lab automation lies in integrating robotics and AI with sustainable design, optimizing energy use, space planning, and environmental impact while enhancing efficiency, collaboration, and adaptability in research environments

Webinar Preview: Streamlining Lab Operations with Digital Platforms
Join this free Lab Design webinar to explore how digital platforms can streamline lab operations, optimize workflows, and foster collaboration among stakeholders for scalable, efficient lab design, featuring real-time Q&A and actionable insights to enhance lab efficiency and growth

Exploring Augmented and Virtual Reality’s Place in the Lab Design Process
Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) offer promising opportunities in laboratory design by enhancing 3D visualization, optimizing equipment placement, improving stakeholder collaboration, and reducing design errors, though cost-effectiveness remains a barrier to widespread adoption

Lab Design News Announces 2025 Digital Conferences Schedule and Season Pass
Lab Design News will host a series of free digital conferences in 2025, covering topics such as laboratory components, exciting new design tools, specialty lab design, and more

Life Sciences Real Estate Perspective: A Sector Poised for Recovery
JLL’s 2024 Life Sciences Real Estate Perspective highlights the current recalibration in the life sciences sector after rapid growth driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and AI/ML technologies

Revolutionizing Lab Construction: How AI is Transforming Project Design and Efficiency
The fourth annual construction technology report from Associated Builders and Contractors explores the impact of AI in construction, highlighting its potential to enhance project management, energy efficiency, design collaboration, risk management, and regulatory compliance, particularly for complex laboratory projects

Planning Safe and Efficient Lab Spaces: Key Considerations for Emergency Equipment Placement and Compliance
Thoughtful planning and strategic design in laboratory spaces are important factors to ensure the optimal placement of emergency equipment like eyewash stations and safety showers, promoting both safety and compliance while accommodating future changes and ensuring accessibility during emergencies

Rapid Innovation: How Evoqua’s Lab Transformed to Meet Growing Demands
Evoqua Water Technologies partnered with R3A Architecture to design a hyper-flexible lab in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood, utilizing BIM and virtual reality tools to meet a tight timeline and create an adaptable space that supports evolving research needs and sustainable water purification processes

Why Flexibility is Key to the Future of Speculative Lab Developments
The rapid pace of life science and biotech research, driven by the need for faster pharma and vaccine development, is spurring increased demand for lab space, exemplified by facilities like 850 PBC in Phoenix

Reimagining the Lab: Creating People-First Laboratories
Project teams are tasked with designing labs that balance the demands of controlled research with the needs of diverse users by employing a people-centric approach at the micro, meso, and macro scales to enhance comfort, wellbeing, and productivity