Trends in Laboratory Designs
In designing a modern laboratory, architects strive to create a lab environment responsive to present needs while still capable of accommodating future demands. Key needs driving this lab design trend includes the desire to create social buildings that facilitate team-based research and the need for flexibility in lab designs. Additionally, architects strive to create lab designs that are environmentally sustainable, which sometimes includes development of science parks with the government. Social buildings In today’s research labs, science is an intensely social pursuit. A successful and productive scientist is intimately familiar with the substance and styles of his or her colleague’s…
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