DfMA for Battery Plants

We’re not suggesting that either of these was deliberate, but what we are saying is that we need to be super-vigilant.

This highlighted briefly just some of the important and transformational work that happens in thousands of laboratories by millions of scientists and technicians.. Now, however, labs have moved to the background once again.. Before collating and expressing the insightful views about laboratories of the future tabled at this event, it feels important to define laboratory in the context of this conversation.Those present represented lab innovation – from pure research to routine mass-testing; from medical, pharmaceutical and genetics, to battery technology..

The need to focus on the future function of labs, rather than generic labs was clear..The group agreed that opportunities to magnify the value output of laboratories lie within the broad spectrum of data, automation/growth in data processing, and smart technology and systems.Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning offer transformational change in value creation.

Although there are some individual examples of its real-life deployment, we are at the start of an exponential curve.. A thread of discussion around the idea that systems could be self-validating created significant energy in the room, as well as friction between those who understood how transformational such a realised idea could be with those who saw the potential disaster.Regulators are clearly going to be either a key partner/enabler or barrier to smart developments.

Or both.. What appears to be clear already is that the impacts of the growth of these technologies will be felt in all parts of laboratory operations: people, skills required, job satisfaction, locations, collaborations, buildings.

This is certainly not a time to be wedded to the bench..Whereas when you walk in here, you’ve got the smell of the deli, of the food, of coffee.’.

Martin Wood describes the concentration for the design of the hospital as being on efficiency of flow, in a way that ‘owes more to manufacturing processes, owes more to buildings that are directly about efficiency in outcome.’ However, he notes that at Circle this doesn’t compromise the user experience in the least.‘Emphasis on value,’ he says, ‘does not necessarily mean that it precludes the use of interesting architectural form.’ Rather, the opposite.

The atrium aids with facilitating natural and easy way-finding, says Wood, adding that the building’s concentration on flow efficiency, as well as the sense of legibility the space provides, actually lends itself to a reduction in stress.‘Everything is self explanatory,’ he says.