These include UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) targets for offices, as well as London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) targets for various building typologies.
Smaller businesses trying to identify the best premises to buy or lease..Developers who want to construct labs that are a good fit for their target market..
Developers who want to attract a specific tenant..The need for fast and scalable lab solutions is clear.In the US alone (about 1/3 of the global market), over 40 million square feet of lab and R&D space is currently under construction, with the global life sciences market forecast to grow on average 13% per year between now and 2030.. Fast Lab is now in development, and we are interested in working with innovative, forward-thinking life science businesses and developers to meet this growing demand…The life sciences are undergoing a rapid transformation fuelled by a convergence in maturing technologies, scientific breakthroughs, demographics, and geopolitical trends – much of which accelerated during the pandemic.
Globally, the sector is forecast to more than double by 2030, while in the UK investment has already increased 12x over the last decade.Laboratories play a key part in this transformation, supporting all stages of the life science value-chain: including R&D, quality control, diagnostic services, and teaching.
As a result, demand for labs is growing rapidly.
In Cambridge and Oxford for example (two of the UK’s main life science hubs), demand for labs now outstrips available supply by nearly a hundred to one.Platforms dramatically reduce the risk of on-site changes in two key ways:.
Intelligent design and automated fabrication remove the need for human ‘interpretation’ of drawings, increasing accuracy and consistency, for greater safety and productivity.Platform II was designed to use basic materials with the minimum amount of fabrication where possible.
Most components use no or low levels of fabrication (these can be thought of as ‘dumb’ components).These components tend to be the large, heavy, commoditised elements including:.