Figure 3: Daylight rendering.

Some lab equipment can be extremely heavy, and the beam layout may dictate where the equipment can sit within the space.We will also always consider how this lab equipment gets to the location in the first place, and any subsequent special requirements..

Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) requirements for lab design.A laboratory design should be services-led.It’s up to the services engineer to fully understand the client laboratory equipment, the room requirements, the health and safety issues and the processes within the lab, as well as understanding what the other disciplines need to provide.

The purpose of the lab space is to provide the users with a safe and controlled environment for their experiments and processes, which are undertaken by and within lab equipment.The equipment is the primary point of a lab.

This equipment is often heavily serviced, so the services take priority; perhaps much more so than in other building types.

It’s the services engineer’s responsibility to coordinate the disciplines and disseminate information to all the relevant parties to ensure their services can be properly provided..From left to right: inboard design, outboard design, nested design..

Figure 3: Daylight rendering.From left to right: inboard design, outboard design, nested design.. Wellbeing and residential buildings.

Bryden Wood was the lead designer of Churchwood Gardens, described by the Housing Design Awards 2020 judges as ‘genius’.. Churchwood Gardens is a nature-centred residential development in London, which features multiple innovative design strategies and is a good example of a healthy residential design.The project adopted a holistic approach to sustainability with a wide range of design for wellbeing strategies, summarised below:.