SCIENCE + LABORATORIES

With the rapid technological advances and the shifting emphasis on research, laboratories and support spaces must be designed for flexibility, safety, and adaptability.

 

HIPP provides collaborative laboratory spaces and engineering solutions to support research + development, testing, pilot production, and diagnostics.  Our full-service design team brings various experiences from the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries to provide planning and design services for various laboratory facilities, including university, research and development, biomedical, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, and industrial research.

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​As experienced laboratory designers, we can support your project from early planning through detailed design, including space programming, design criteria for utilities, fume hoods, biologic safety cabinets, and construction documents.

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Our laboratory design team understands the critical elements for successful laboratory project delivery. Utilities must be highly reliable, and environmental conditions must be repeatable. Electric power will, in many cases, need to be conditioned and, in some cases, uninterruptible. In addition, precise environmental controls such as spatial pressure relationships, temperature, and humidity will be necessary. Deviation from these requirements can void the research project's findings.

 

Additionally, safety and energy conservation are critical elements of any laboratory project. Safety should adequately address whether a primary concern is for contamination to the research lab or from the research lab. In particularly critical areas, such as a BL-3 lab, the answer will be both, and special containment chambers may be required. Energy-efficient systems and recovery methods must be considered early in the planning process to maximize their ability to impact the project positively.