Laboratory - Lab Bench by Steelcase

Lab Bench adapts to the various ways lab personnel work with unprecedented flexibilty, reconfigurability, and provides easy access to components such as sinks, drying racks, and storage.

The Steelcase Lab Bench was originally designed by architects, designers and scientists to meet the changing needs of a modern scientific laboratory, the Van Andel Research Institute. The Van Andel Research Instituteis a 160,000-square-foot, world class, state-of-the-art facility that opened May of 2000 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This independent medical research organization is dedicated to scientific investigations that will lead to significant improvements in human health with a focus on cancer research. To learn more about this Lab Bench solution, please see theVan Andel Research Institute Case Study.

Lab Bench is a modular solution, for use in any wet or dry laboratory setting such as healthcare, bioscience, and higher education. Lab Bench adapts to the various needs of the lab users with unprecedented flexibility and adjustability. Simple, freestanding modules are easy to assemble and reconfigure to support changes such as research direction, or to support personnel and individual workstyles.

Effective collaboration and communication depend on the strategic management of space. Lab Bench embraces an architecture and technology based infrastructure as essential elements of its design, ensuring that the functionality and aesthetic needed for today lasts well into the future. Steelcase’s approach to collaborative design creates a complete laboratory solution tailored to fit specific lab requirements.

Lab Bench is made up of the following key components:

• Frames - Link horizontally to create a visual division of the space, support other components, and accommodate electrical and cable routing.
• Worksurfaces - Provide the primary work area, including worksurfaces, backsplashes, and sidesplashes.
• Storage Components - Can attach overhead to the frame, or storage can be freestanding beneath worksurfaces. Includes overhead and base storage, sink cabinets, and shelves.
• Modular Power and Communication Elements - Includes power blocks, receptacles and harnesses.

Adjustability where it matters.

• Worksurfaces can be adjusted to 30" or 36" in height and can be supported by either cantilevers, lower storage or a combination of both.
• Shelves and overhead cabinets are completely adjustable in 1" increments.

Utility combined with flexibility

• Entire modules can be added or taken out at any time to support changes.
• Utilities (data, electrical, gas, water, etc.) are routed through vertical and horizontal chases and are fully accessible from a variety of locations in the floor, ceiling or wall.
• Designed to accommodate other lab components such as fume hoods, sinks, and drying racks.

An integrated approach to designing space
From lab settings to transition and support areas, Steelcase offers an array of products designed to help facilitate communication and collaboration amoung researchers.

Complete space solution includes:

• Architecture:Pathways Privacy Wall,Pathways Access Flooring
• Technology:Pathways Modular Wiring,Lighting
• Furniture:Seating,Tables
• Support:Work Tools

Additional Information

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• Steelcase Site