This may sound obvious but it’s a long way from what often happens.
Learn more about the benefits of Industrialised Construction.Although front and centre at this event, laboratories and the professionals intimately involved with them are often overlooked when considering their social and economic value..In fact, the word laboratory can immediately conjure up people in white coats doing tests on wooden benches.
So far, so 1990.. During the Covid pandemic, a light was briefly shone on labs’ enormous significance to our lives.We waited for test results to allow us to go to work, we looked for information about new variants and we waited for a vaccine.This highlighted briefly just some of the important and transformational work that happens in thousands of laboratories by millions of scientists and technicians.. Now, however, labs have moved to the background once again.. Before collating and expressing the insightful views about laboratories of the future tabled at this event, it feels important to define laboratory in the context of this conversation.
Those present represented lab innovation – from pure research to routine mass-testing; from medical, pharmaceutical and genetics, to battery technology..The need to focus on the future function of labs, rather than generic labs was clear..
The group agreed that opportunities to magnify the value output of laboratories lie within the broad spectrum of data, automation/growth in data processing, and smart technology and systems.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning offer transformational change in value creation.HH: Listen to your sustainability team.
They have so much knowledge they will be able to share with you.It’s not just for them to tell you what to do as such, but as an architect you will have the most impact on a building if you try to work as a team.
Incorporating passive design in your projects will mean less M&E services will be required, which means you will benefit architecturally from things like higher ceiling height, larger areas needing smaller risers and smaller plant rooms.All in all, the technical spaces in a building become a lot smaller.