SmartLabs – Cambridgeport

As their name suggests, SmartLabs is dedicated to providing custom lab spaces for their clients. Whether that means offices, wet labs, clean rooms, or vivarium, scientists with specific needs come to SmartLabs to access tailored research spaces and the comprehensive operational support provided by their in-house experts. This comes with an array of real estate challenges. Different disciplines need different spaces and building them out requires custom solutions. Technology is constantly evolving, so keeping space up to date requires flexibility. Some leases last years, while others run for a couple of months. And then there is the matter of turnaround. Every day a lab is being renovated is a day that valuable scientific research isn’t taking place. To help manage all these factors, SmartLabs builds with the DIRTT Construction System.

With a proprietary design integration software called ICE^®, DIRTT can create solutions to fit the space and the needs of the client exactly. Precision manufactured off-site, DIRTT modular wall assemblies preloaded with electrical cabling. This allows spaces to be built quickly. This also means SmartLabs’ clients get into their labs faster, reducing their financial expenditure and improving their speed to market. But the benefit of DIRTT doesn’t end on Day One. As a construction system designed for disassembly and reconfiguration, when one client’s lease is up, SmartLabs can quickly adapt the space to support the next groundbreaking research. And turnaround can happen in days or weeks, rather than months. In a life-science setting, time is of the essence. With DIRTT, SmartLabs can be agile, removing barriers to those doing valuable research.