Marks talks about the convergence that’s happening between industries, companies, processes and products.

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.

Alongside this growth, improvements in IT, staffing challenges, and new ways of working, now mean that remote or flexible working is commonplace.The ‘intelligent’ components are small, manually handleable and accurately mass produced..

The level of bespoke production is thus focussed on far less tonnage than designs for e.g.traditional steel composite or flat slab solutions.. Repeatable, standard elements such as the brackets and temporary works are designed to be robotically fabricated directly from the digital library.

On The Forge, SME Easi-Space worked with BSI to develop the standard for robotic welding of structural components:.Digital files from the model can be sent directly to the fabricator.