As of February 2026, the speaker lineup for this conference is full. Please consider speaking at one of our other upcoming conferences.
This is Tradeline’s 45th annual conference examining the continually evolving designs, planning models, and space metrics for labs, cores, scale-up space, and manufacturing facilities for research organizations.
PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES
- Facilities for prototyping, testing, scaling, and manufacturing of new discoveries
- Space plans for the new research environment: Multi-disciplinary teams, AI, and equipment-driven programs
- Research facility features for attracting and retaining top talent
- The latest facility flexibility, modularity, and adaptability solutions
- New metrics for scientific work environments: offices, bench, cores, support space
- Solutions for improving space utilization, productivity, and operating cost
- Renovation, repurposing, and new construction strategies and costs
- Strategic planning for research facilities to reflect changing priorities and funding models
All stakeholders interested in speaking at this conference are tasked to demonstrate innovative ideas, models, and/or solutions using one or more of the elements below, or your own creative new concepts, to address the objectives above:
- New space plans, metrics, and layouts for labs, offices, cores, and support space
- The latest discovery scale-up and manufacturing facility models
- Flexibility, adaptability, and scalability for new research programs and priorities
- Space management and allocation policies for higher utilization
- Adaptive reuse models and examples
- Workplace strategies for modern scientific work environments
- Impacts of AI and automation on lab space and use
- Construction costs and budgets
- Decision-making criteria for renovation, repurposing, or building new
- High-demand research space: robotics, computational, infectious disease, batteries, renewable energy
- New standards for “wet” bench space: smaller modules, shared benches
- Flexible assignment of resources
- Collaborative space: What is working, and what is not
- Planning for increased computational space: plans, metrics, and location
- Centralized lab facilities for reduced cost and maximum space utilization
- Mixed-discipline research space plans
- Reassigning space to more productive programs
- Trends and metrics for support space: types, adjacencies, and quantity
- Lab equipment and furniture systems that provide modularity
- Energy efficiency, carbon reduction, and sustainability
- Building performance criteria
- New, more cost-efficient MEP systems
- Modular and prefabricated design and construction solutions