Lab professionals share their thoughts on artwork in the workplace.

No matter the type of lab–be it clinical, food, forensic, or analytical–every lab requires furnishings. From flooring to seating, our guide can help.

If everything in a lab gets attached to walls or the floor, evolving lab requirements and processes require ramshackle solutions. But what if things could move around? That’s what flexible casework allows.

Labs have come a long way since Thomas Alva Edison’s improvisations with fireplace chimneys to exhaust noxious fumes at his Menlo Park, New Jersey, research facilities in the late nineteenth century.

Communicating the final design of a laboratory to the principal investigators and their research 
teams can be challenging. 

More than just surfaces and storage, today’s laboratory casework makes a statement. For one thing, the right casework makes a lab operate more efficiently—putting the right drawers or shelves in the most at-hand places. In addition, casework can even keep track of pieces and parts in a lab. Plus, today’s options in cases—from materials to colors—give scientists an opportunity to create a lab with pizzazz.

Get fun facts about lab furniture, a list of questions to ask when buying lab furniture, the most recent lab furniture releases, and an updated lab furniture manufacturer's list in this section.

While it might be the season for beach trips and family vacations, for most of us those getaways only
fill a few weeks at best. After that, it’s back to the workplace or, in your case, the lab.

When executive director Graham Shimmield and his colleagues set out to build a new home for Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in 2009, they wanted a structure sensitive to the surroundings of the new locale on the coast of Maine. With the help of their architects, contractors, and engineers, they got just that.

This event features a suite of unique, interactive programs hosted in “virtual pavilions” dedicated to Lab Management and Life Science Research.