We first met Illumina because they were building their new UK HQ – a very large laboratory building – on Quanta Park, where we were already active.
These days they’re coming to her for help and she’s passionately excited about the change happening right before her eyes.. “What we have to recognise,” she says, “is we're counting on each other, and we have to make sure that we're all doing the right things because it’s so connected.”.She reminds us that.
facilitating a. successful.shift to industrialised construction.isn't just about the technology and the software tools, but about creating the right processes, having the support system from government and building departments, and authorities having jurisdiction.. “By the way,” she says.
“I started saying industrialised revolution because I truly meant it.This is a revolution.
There used to be days when I felt like I was carrying a heavy backpack full of rocks uphill.
But now there's an army behind me, a battalion.Height.. Limited headroom in existing offices may be insufficient for taller lab equipment or increased services distribution.. An ideal starting-point for a lab is a floor-to-floor height between 4.2 and 4.5m, with an office typically being in the 3.6 to 4.2m range.. Taller items such as fume cabinets and MBSCs can normally be accommodated under a 2.7m high ceiling (similar to what you might find in a modern office), however some specialist or larger-scale equipment will require additional headroom or maintenance and withdrawal space, and localised raised ceilings may be necessary, or the equipment simply might not fit.. Labs require many more services than an office, which normally means a deeper ceiling void.
Limited risers in offices can also result in more service crossovers and congestion, increasing this depth further still.It is often possible to mitigate some of this through good design, such as lowering ceilings in corridors to accommodate main ductwork runs or positioning lower height rooms close to risers.
Ground floor units and older office buildings may also have larger floor-to-floor heights, and there can even be opportunities to increase headroom by removing raised-access floors (though this will impact floor thresholds.)A deeper ceiling void may also introduce the need for sprinklers or fire detection systems.. 3.