Lab Design Announces 2024 Design Excellence Awards Winners
Lab Design is happy to announce the winners of its fifth annual Design Excellence Awards, a program that honors achievements in research laboratory design, planning, and construction. These awards acknowledge everyone who touches the lab design process—from the architect and lab planner to the engineer, as well as laboratory equipment and furniture manufacturers and the lab end user.
Following the completion of the submission and judging processes, Lab Design is proud to announce the winners of its 2024 competition:
Excellence in Whole Building/Holistic Design
Rice University Ralph S. O’Connor Engineering
Houston, TX
Submitted by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), in collaboration with Scientia Architects
Excellence in Interior Design
State of New Mexico Forensic Laboratory
Santa Fe, NM
Submitted by Dekker
Excellence in Small Project Design
NASA Asteroid Sample Curation Lab
Houston, TX
Submitted by RS&H
Lab Design is also happy to announce that the following lab projects have been awarded Special Merit recognition by our judges. The Special Merit awards are sponsored by El Sea LLC.
Special Merit: Technical Complexity
Australian National University Research School of Physics Stage 1 Building
Acton, Australian Capital Territory
Submitted by Hassell
Special Merit: Sustainable Practices in Design
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, William and Linda Frost Center for Research and Innovation
San Luis Obispo, CA
Submitted by ZGF Architects
Special Merit: Educational Lab Innovation
Tāwharau Ora–School of Veterinary Science
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Submitted by Lab-works Architecture
Special Merit: Technical Excellence
Pacific Northwest National Lab Energy Sciences Center
Richland, WA
Submitted by Kirksey Architecture
Special Merit: Design Excellence
University of San Diego Franklin Antonio Hall
La Jolla, CA
Submitted by Perkins&Will
The Design Excellence Awards program was launched by Lab Design’s partner publication, Lab Manager, in 2019. The competition invites industry professionals to put their recent lab projects into words for a chance to enter into an elite community within the lab design world. Entrants are asked to demonstrate what makes their facilities unique and cutting-edge, and how they can serve as models for the lab design/build community.
A panel of industry leaders—consisting of laboratory architects, engineers, construction professionals, and editorial staff from Lab Design—analyzes each entry for its approach to lab design. Projects entered in the Design Excellence Awards represent a wide range of laboratory types, such as research labs, academic facilities, healthcare and veterinary buildings, water treatment labs, government facilities, and more.
The project teams will be honored on May 20 during the Lab Design Conference in Phoenix, AZ. The category winners will accept their awards and offer brief presentations about their groundbreaking projects. To secure your ticket for this event, please visit https://www.labdesignconference.com/.
Profiles of the Design Excellence Awards honorees will appear on labdesignnews.com in the near future.
Congratulations to all of our honorees!
