Ceiling Utility Grids

Vital for Lab Flexibility

Published December 2005 Plan for future equipment needs with overhead utility distribution.

Whatever instruments you are planning for now, in five years they will be different. This is a recommendation for mobile equipment carts and overhead distribution grids for utilities. The big flexibility concept for labs is to separate the ceiling utility distribution grid from what does on at the floor level.

-From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2005 Conference

Learn about the implementation of overhead service carriers at M.D. Anderson's commercial grade design-build lab.