Churn Rate for Lab Spaces

Flexibility and Project Planning

Published May 2005 The churn rate for your lab spaces is a key datapoint.

Know the churn rate for your lab spaces, and use that number in making flexibility investments. ("Everyone" knows churn for office space. Very few know the churn rates for their labs.) If you change out a space typically every 5 years, your planned churn should be 20%. Corollary: Make "churn" an issue of discussion in your project planning meetings.

- From Tradeline's Science Buildings Canada 2005 Conference