The design of these facilities requires particular skills and discipline, not least of all the understanding of and coordination with engineering disciplines. These buildings are often heavily serviced and highly complex, requiring a particular rigour in terms of layout, technical solutions, regulatory compliance and functionality.
Facilities such as these cross many sectors and subsectors, including higher education, life sciences, medical research, science parks, pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing and government labs.
Within the wider PM Group we can also call on expertise in bio containment, lean laboratory design, process architecture and pilot plant design. Much of these skills are cross-sector and interdisciplinary and we have developed initiatives within the Group to exchange this knowledge and improve understanding.
We are currently developing initiatives in relation to the sustainable design of research facilities, coupling our expertise in sustainable architectural design with that of design for energy conservation. Devereux Architects have also developed strategies for flexible and adaptable laboratory design.