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Is Lab Planning and Design Being Assigned to People That Already Have Full-Time Jobs?

Every person that works in your laboratory has a specific skillset, role, responsibility, obligation, and bandwidth. When new demands and expectations are placed on these resources, it can quickly overstretch your team. Not only will the quality, accuracy, and efficacy of the current tasks being performed suffer, but the additional work will also be lacking; because your team already has a full-time job.


Why Should Lab Planning and Design be Outsourced?

If done internally, the burden of lab planning and design typically falls on facilities personnel, lab management or end users who usually do not have the engineering skills, availability or expertise to properly design these plans. These members of your staff already have deadlines, goals, and deliverables, being spread too thin not only jeopardizes the day-to-day, it limits the potential of new development that lab planning and design is intended for. 


What are the Benefits of Entrusting a Third-Party Lab Planning Expert?

Selecting the right lab planning and design partner can pay dividends, not only for the final project, but for your bottom line throughout the investment in your laboratory. With a thorough, end-to-end plan along with outside planning and oversight that doesn’t take away from daily operations, organizational goals and operational obligations can not only be met, but exceeded. 

Lab planning and design consultation is just part what the experienced, project-focused experts at Overbrook offer. 


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