S-Lab announces international shortlist for best laboratories

Recognising best practice in designing, building and operating laboratories around the world, this year's S-Lab Awards shortlist has been announced. It comprises 40 entries from nine different countries in eight categories listed below:

• New r&d and analytical lab building
• New teaching/mixed use lab building
• Refurbished lab
• Lab effectiveness
• Environmental improvement
• Making a difference
• Laboratory data and Informatics
• New product

Four labs are shortlisted for the best new r&d and analytical lab building category:

• The Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine, US
• The University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Medicine Research Building, UK
• The University of Saskatchewan International Vaccine Centre, Canada
• The Washington DC Consolidated Forensics Laboratory, US

There are five shortlisted entries in the best new teaching/mixed use laboratory building category:

• Charles R. Drew Charter School, US; Sydney University, Charles Perkins Centre, Australia
• The University of East Anglia, Bob Champion Research and Education Building, UK
• The University of Florida, Lake Nona Research and Academic Centre, US
• The University of New South Wales, Tyree Energy Technologies Building, Australia

Those shortlisted for the best refurbished labs include:

• Cell Therapy Catapult R&D Centre, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK
• Huntsman Pigments Innovation Centre, Wynyard Park, Tees Valley, UK
• Sheffield Hallam University, UK
• University of Edinburgh, Chemical Synthesis Laboratory, Scotland
• University of Glasgow, Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, Scotland

Those shortlisted for the laboratory effectiveness category are:

• Massey University College of Sciences, Palmerston North, New Zealand
• The Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
• The Science Exchange – a US-based internet venture
• Wageningen University, in the Netherlands

Those shortlisted for environmental Improvement schemes include:

• Aston University, UK
• Lilly, Windlesham, UK
• University of Oxford Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, UK
• University of Michigan, US

Those nominated for the 'Making a Difference' award are Allison Hunter, a technical manager on two campuses at King’s College, London and Rekha Joshi, a senior technical manager in the Faculty of Science, Macquarie University, Australia.

Selected for Laboratory Data and Informatics achievements are:

• Boston University, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Lab, US, for enhancing biosecurity through Informatics
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus, US and Ecodomus for using BIM for more effective facilities management
• Scottish Environmental Protection Agency for its advanced checking, analysis and visualisation systems for sample data

Shortlisted under the best product category are:

• Ax60 by Analox, UK, a low-cost sensor system designed to detect potentially hazardous levels of carbon dioxide gas in ambient air
• ESTS ISG, Germany, for a flash steam generator used in Logiclave autoclaves which requires no stored hot water or pressurised steam reservoir
• Genano, Finland for proprietary nano-scale air purification method that removes particles of nanometre size and kills viruses and bacteria
• Inlabtec, Switzerland for a Serial Diluter that automates and standardises sample dilution for testing of bacterial counts in food safety and other applications
• KNF Lab, Germany/US, for a redesigned RC900 rotary evaporator whose wireless operation allows full control without raising the fume cupboard sash
• Labaqua, Spain, for a robotic arm for the automatic concentration of water samples by membrane filtration for their microbiological analysis by culture isolation
• SKZ–TeConA, Germany, for a solar-heated water system for pressure test tanks

The award winners will be announced at the 2015 S-Lab Conference & Exposition being held in Nottingham, UK, on 22–23 September.

For more details visit www.effectivelab.org.uk/awards.html

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