Area

ABOUT

Area are one of the UK and Europe’s leading and most progressive laboratory design and fit-out specialists. Their understanding of the intricacies of designing and building contamination controlled, low risk and accredited laboratory spaces is second to none. Their consultative approach ensures that they understand clients’ needs and can deliver bespoke, productive and cost-effective solutions that support good manufacturing processes.

From cutting-edge research laboratories to hard-working chemical environments, they’ve designed and built them all. This specialist knowledge and experience helps clients save time and money, while delivering an aesthetically pleasing laboratory space.

Area’s team share a common passion for creating laboratory spaces and a collective purpose of delivering an exceptional experience for their clients and their employees. Their highly skilled team of laboratory specialists are experts in connecting the physical environment, and the experience it delivers, with their client’s objectives.

Area provide complete laboratory construction solutions, including architectural elements, mechanical and electrical services, medical gases, UPS systems, contamination control, security, risk management, support spaces, furniture, equipment coordination, waste management and change control.

Services

Consultation:

• With extensive experience across multiple industries and disciplines, Area know the right questions to ask and can offer ideas and solutions that can take the final product beyond expectations. Careful consideration is given to the function of a laboratory, hazard identification and mitigation, what equipment needs to be installed, the degree of flexibility and working conditions required.

Design

• Area’s specialist laboratory team design highly functional, safe and efficient spaces, from optimised layouts for better workflow, through to innovative solutions to ensure safety and compliance. Their design team take a consultative approach that generates ideas and inspiration for laboratories that are productive, flexible, and great places to work.

Construction

• Area’s proven laboratory construction expertise ensures a seamless construction process and a safe and fully compliant result. They have a huge network of specialist trades, suppliers, and manufacturers so no matter the requirements or budget, they can build a laboratory to exact specifications.

Furniture

• Area supply and install all types of laboratory furniture from desks and chairs through to balance benches, reagent shelving, safety cabinets and fume cupboards – offering bespoke manufactured solutions as well as cost-effective modular systems. Their experience and understanding of standards, materials and individual requirements ensures laboratory furniture is fit for purpose, long lasting and looks great.