The business case for good lab design

The design must attract and accommodate the best and the brightest

By Healthcare Facilities Today


In general, research labs, whether they be hospital-based, corporate, or universitystruggle with the same overlapping challenges:

• Funding

• Attraction and retention of top talent

• Improving cost efficiencies

• Collaboration between the innovators and the commercializers 

Bad lab design can worsen those challenges, according to an article on the About.com website. 

Poor lab design can hurt funding opportunities. Innovative people want to work in innovative environments that enable them to compete for funding. Innovative scientists will avoid physical environments that slow them down and make their efforts less competitive for capital support, the article said.

The brightest minds will go to whichever hospital will best enable them to develop their hypotheses, and eventually bring their ideas to market. Like all of us, they want their ideas brought to light where they can make a difference, according to the article.

Read the article.

 

 

 



December 11, 2013


Topic Area: Interior Design


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