Study the space that will house the lab paying attention to existing capabilities. Cable runs supplying data and power are less expensive and more adaptable when handled with furniture infrastructure than within raised floors, interior walls and dropped ceilings.

Determine whether the infrastructure will remain constant or have to be changed often. Symbiote offers UltraFrame Lab solutions for stable infrastructures, or QuadPost Lab solutions for environments that change more often. Budget is also an issue. QuadPost Lab solutions usually cost less than UltraFrame Lab but UltraFrame Lab structures have additional flexibility and load capacity.

Layout the gridwork using either the UltraFrame or QuadPost systems leaving work space in front of and access space in back of all racks and work stations.

BUILD:

Furnish the grid with the appropriate functional tools including benches, enclosures, shelves, racks, work surfaces, cabinets, chairs and more. Determine specific needs at the micro level and build the appropriate QuadPost Plus structures as needed. The Symbiote Integrated Product Catalog (SIP Catalog) is the guide for selecting the tools that will interact with all the capabilities and resources that will touch the lab.

Wire and cable runs are controlled and organized using the inside of the QuadPost gridwork, or overhead ladders, support trees and conduits in the UltraFrame system.

ADAPT:

Continue to use the Symbiote SIP Catalog as the requirements of the lab evolve. The modular nature of all the products in the Symbiote SIP Catalog insures that the elements you add tomorrow will fit perfectly onto the structures you build today.

Rebuild. Most of the structures you build using either the UltraFrame or QuadFrame structures can be disassembled and rebuilt into a different grid in the same space or a different space as the functions of the lab change. Today’s labs are notorious for their fickle nature. They must evolve constantly in a world in which the only constant is change itself.