Keeping a project and all its elements together is, however, complex – but not complicated.
In the US alone (about 1/3 of the global market), over 40 million square feet of lab and R&D space is currently under construction, with the global life sciences market forecast to grow on average 13% per year between now and 2030.. Fast Lab is now in development, and we are interested in working with innovative, forward-thinking life science businesses and developers to meet this growing demand…The life sciences are undergoing a rapid transformation fuelled by a convergence in maturing technologies, scientific breakthroughs, demographics, and geopolitical trends – much of which accelerated during the pandemic.Globally, the sector is forecast to more than double by 2030, while in the UK investment has already increased 12x over the last decade.
Laboratories play a key part in this transformation, supporting all stages of the life science value-chain: including R&D, quality control, diagnostic services, and teaching.As a result, demand for labs is growing rapidly.In Cambridge and Oxford for example (two of the UK’s main life science hubs), demand for labs now outstrips available supply by nearly a hundred to one.
Alongside this growth, improvements in IT, staffing challenges, and new ways of working, now mean that remote or flexible working is commonplace.For life science developers and companies this has created a major opportunity: converting increasingly vacant or cheaper office space into labs – saving time and money.
This may appear to be the perfect solution, however there are additional challenges to consider..
Conversion of an existing office tenancy into a new PCR and bloodwork lab.. 1.The design of platform interfaces is so accurate it reduces reliance on skilled trades and workmanship and provides a visual and straightforward Quality Assurance process, for greater consistency and accuracy:.
The manufactured brackets that create the interfaces between beams and columns use very simple standardise tasks (bolted together vs requiring specialist steel erectors) ensuring a level of consistency normally unachievable in traditional construction..Brackets are designed in a way that they can only be installed correctly (referred to as ‘poka-yoke’ in manufacturing) making it impossible for an error to occur or making the error immediately obvious.
In addition, the brackets are colour coded, with each colour relating to a specific condition, e.g.end of bay, base of column etc.
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