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Some clients will have a very clear scope, especially if the lab is an expansion or extension of an existing process, but some clients will need help in creating the scope, especially for new processes.It should also be noted that users often have a fixed solution in mind based on what they have done in the past - their solution may not be the best for the laboratory design project, and it is our job to challenge their assumptions and offer alternative, perhaps better, solutions..

Lab processes can be grouped into distinct functional spaces, for example: dry processes, milling, synthesis or analytics.These functional spaces are theoretical zones which have no spatial definition, acting as a visual way of defining a group of processes which are related to one another..Working with users to categorise the laboratory processes into these distinct functional spaces enables us to generate flow diagrams for the process..

Lab design layout: identifying the flows.As with any project, many stakeholders see a lab design layout as the primary early deliverable to determine that progress is being made on the project.

It’s important to make it clear to the client team as well as the laboratory design team that the information needed to form the lab design layout is the priority.. Once we have determined the functional spaces within the lab, for example materials, people, and waste, we can arrange them into flow diagrams to create adjacencies between the different spaces of the lab, allowing us to create a rudimentary layout.

The aim is to reduce movement between the spaces to make the laboratory design layout more efficient.. We can then classify the client equipment to fit into each of these functional spaces and undertake the same exercise at a smaller scale to determine the adjacencies between the laboratory equipment..But most of all, we must collectively rise to our own potential.

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