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That’s well known in the industry; there’s guidance in place and our focus on sustainability in design has meant that we’ve been working towards that for years now..

Labs will also require additional suspended services and potentially new HVAC or utility plant in the refurbished office space or on the roof, meaning a wider building assessment is necessary.Additionally, some lab operations can be extremely vibration sensitive, and a lightweight steel-framed office might not be the best starting point..

Potential solutions include spacing and arranging lab equipment or storage to better distribute loads or reduce vibrations (e.g.by placing sensitive equipment near grids and cores), introducing new steelwork, converting ground-floor units or older, sturdier buildings, or localised solutions such as spreader plates, analytical benches, and even active dampening systems..Lab fit-out in a building originally intended for office use.

Fume cabinets installed as part of a biotech lab fit out in an existing office.Kit-of-parts developed by Bryden Wood for rapid deployment of labs into existing office and commercial spaces.

Bryden Wood's kit-of-parts for lab design.

Existing office buildings may struggle to accommodate new laboratory HVAC plant and distribution..Without curiosity, humans would simply not have developed and without curiosity now we will remain stuck in our industrial greenhouse..

In my curiosity, I decided I wanted to know the answer to a simple question.Having been involved a little in a project to look at the production of carbon-neutral synthetic aviation fuel and conversations about the replacement of coal-fired power stations with small nuclear energy generation; I wanted to know how many small nuclear plants it would take to replace the totality of aviation fuel.

Given that it seems that using agricultural biofuels is a cul-de-sac; I imagined all the synthetic fuel being fixed from CO2 in the atmosphere.. Now I am aware that my calculations may be wrong, I used good, referenced papers and information, but I can make mistakes.The answer I came to was, at first, shocking.