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From Baked Beans to Scientific Breakthroughs: Northeastern’s Roux Institute
The Roux Institute project transforms Portland’s historic B&M Baked Beans factory into a flexible, all-electric research campus by combining adaptive reuse, advanced digital design, and Maine-sourced building materials to support evolving needs in digital engineering and life sciences
Designing for Automation: Lessons Learned from the Next Generation of Smart Laboratories
Automation is transforming labs across every sector, but the real success factor isn’t the robots themselves—it’s how thoughtfully facilities are designed to support workflows, infrastructure, data, sustainability, and people
Fostering Interdisciplinary Research: How Flexible Design Unlocks the Future of Science
As scientific research becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, academic institutions face the design challenge of creating laboratory environments that break down traditional silos while remaining flexible, modular, and sustainable enough to adapt to evolving technologies and modes of collaboration
Designing the Undesigned: The Six A's and the Laboratory of the Future
A framework of six principles provides a holistic, data-driven approach to designing flexible, sustainable laboratories that can evolve with the science of the future
How Flexibility and AI Are Reshaping the Future of Lab Real Estate
With AI-native biotechs changing how—and where—science happens, design teams are rethinking flexibility, retrofits, and speed-to-market strategies to prepare labs for the next decade of discovery
Webinar Preview: How to Build an Adaptable Lab
Register for Lab Design’s free October 8 webinar, "How to Build an Adaptable Lab," to hear industry experts share practical strategies for creating flexible, future-ready research spaces
Webinar Preview: How to Build a Sustainable Automated Lab
Lab Design will host a free webinar on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 1:00 pm ET to explore how automation, robotics, and AI are transforming research workflows and what lab planners, designers, and end users can do to create sustainable, flexible facilities that meet both today’s and tomorrow’s needs
The AI-Driven Shift in Lab Design
AI is transforming research so rapidly that laboratories must evolve into flexible, digitally integrated, and automation-ready ecosystems—designed as dynamic platforms for both current and future technologies—where adaptability, smart infrastructure, and cross-sector best practices are the new gold standard for accelerating discovery at “machine speed”
Innovation and Creativity in Modern Lab Design—A Perspective from Experience
Designing labs that fuel innovation takes more than vision—it requires purpose-driven design, creative freedom, and operational foresight, and this insider perspective reveals how today’s most forward-thinking teams are transforming labs into strategic assets that inspire discovery and adapt to what’s next
What Crime Labs Need Now—and Tomorrow: Insights from Arkansas’ New Facility
The design and construction of the new Arkansas State Crime Laboratory highlight the importance of early user engagement, flexible infrastructure, and careful planning to meet evolving forensic science needs and operational workflows