Australia’s Leading Laboratory Design Specialists

Transform your lab into a hub of scientific excellence with our fit-for-purpose laboratory design services

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Lab design specialists for over 40 years

Laboratories are the epicentre of scientific innovation. We have extensive experience in planning, designing, and building state-of-the-art laboratories that support your organisation's goals while ensuring safe working and best practices.  

Our tailored laboratory designs are meticulously crafted to enhance research efficiency, safety, and scientific collaboration, empowering your team to achieve breakthrough discoveries. 

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Leaders in laboratory design

For over 40 years, Amicus Labline has been Australia's premier specialist in lab design and fitout, serving sectors such as resources, energy, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, healthcare, R&D, and education.

We are uniquely positioned to provide architectural and building services design, offering a comprehensive combined laboratory design and fitout package. Our extensive experience ensures that we can deliver state-of-the-art laboratory environments that meet each sector's specific needs. 

Our seasoned team excels at minimising your pain points, reducing time, and controlling costs during the planning and design stages. We collaborate closely with your team to ensure that all design elements align with your objectives, ensuring safe working practices and adherence to best practices.

Understanding the inherent complexity of laboratory design, we begin by thoroughly understanding your requirements. This collaborative approach guarantees that we deliver a true turnkey solution aligned with your vision and needs, providing a world-class laboratory environment supporting your organisation's goals. 

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Design Flexibility

 

There are multiple options and stages to a design process, often determined by the specific client needs and requirements. We can commence design at any stage: 

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Strategy

 

  • Feasibility: This is useful in determining the area of laboratory and office that may be required prior to seeking assistance from Tenant reps and landlords.  
  • Lab workflows: The processes that your end users move through in their day to day work within the lab. It is common to see lab workflows that are negatively impacted by the physical environment. Designing a lab to a workflow produces far more successful outcomes for both the business and users. 
  • Site investigation: Carrying out due diligence on specific tenancies that are being considered, ensuring they are fit for purpose for their intended use prior to entering into a tenancy agreement. This is also useful for negotiating the best outcomes from landlords. 
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Design Only

 

Amicus Labline can also provide design-only consultancy services, separating the design component of a project from the construction phase.

We can still deliver a full consultancy team to carry out the concept design, detailed design, tender documentation, and construction documentation phases. 

Design only does not preclude construction, instead, it splits them up to better fit your needs. 

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Design and Construct

 

Amicus can take on both the design and construction of the project. This process is ideal when time is a driving factor. 

We will work closely with you, the architect, and the engineering services consultants. This allows us to liaise with our preferred subcontractors during the design phase to ensure the project is value-engineered during design rather than post-design. 

This key element allows the process to be fast-tracked instead of keeping contractors at arm’s length until the tender process. 

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Lab design for safety and compliance

Ensuring a safe working environment in your lab is paramount, and design plays a critical role in achieving this. With over four decades of experience, Amicus Labline leverages deep knowledge of laboratory design standards and guidelines to create layouts that are not only safe and efficient but also inspiring. Our commitment is to understand your specific requirements and the needs of your users to seamlessly integrate regulatory and best practice elements into our designs. 

Amicus Labline provides expert guidance on critical engineering elements such as HVAC solutions, which are essential for achieving various physical containment levels. This includes installing specialist filtration systems and managing pressure variances between labs to create safe positive or negative pressures. We also ensure the safe storage of chemicals and the compliant discharge of hazardous waste, often requiring the input of Dangerous Goods specialists.  

Our lab design solutions comply with Australian Standards, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Physical Containment (PC) levels 1 to 4, with over 50% of our portfolio at the PC2 level, ensuring robust safety and compliance across your laboratory spaces. 

Our Process - Keychain

 

Our unique Keychain approach  brings a new level of transparency to our engagements with you. It is a workflow tool that shares project progress and accountability items with you from day one through to practical completion. 

This process is also characterised by project management best practices in using hold and approval points during the project. These gates at project milestones guarantee that you are happy with the progress and outcomes being delivered. Many of these gates correspond to ongoing budget outputs and can be used as hold points to reassess project scope and associated budgets. 

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Amicus Labline is dedicated to delivering a world-class experience and outcome for you and your team. Our commitment to making you a client for life is rooted grounded in the belief that our success in executing your project ensures your return in the future.

 

This client-centric approach places your needs as the top priority, with Amicus Labline serving as your advocate throughout the entire project. 

 
Aaron Budai of Amicus

Aaron Budai

Director of Labline
Jon Rogow of Amicus Labline

Jon Rogow

Director of Labline
Ali Vincent Interior Design Amicus Labline

Ali Vincent

Interior Designer Labline
Andrew Leigo Amicus Labline

Andrew Leigo

Senior Project Manager

Client Success Stories

A core value of CoLabs is wanting to ensure the environment that we offer people lifts them up and makes them feel special. The Amicus team showed that the obstacle is the way. They found ways to work with, rather than work against and we are very grateful for that. I’m really happy with the delivery of the project and getting to be in the space makes me so excited to see what it’s going to be like when it’s filled with bright minds and warm hearts trying to solve the complex problems that we face.

Samuel Wines Co-Founder
CoLabs

“I have been working with Amicus for 10+ years and can confirm they are my 'go to' trusted partner who deliver an exceptional design on time and within budget every time. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.”

Surinder Kaur Asia Workplace Resources Area Manager
Nokia

“Our aim is to build towards a connected mobility future for all Australians, and this new facility will allow us to provide enhanced, cutting-edge research to governments, road agencies and academia on all aspects of roads and transport.”

Michael Caltabiano Chief Executive Officer
ARRB

“The labs have been transformed into a professional-looking teaching and learning environment. Many students remarked that they felt like scientists as soon as they walked into the room!”

Sera Hurley Head of Science
St Catherines

“Having proved themselves a great partner on our previous project, Amicus again demonstrated their ability to remove most of the hassle from the whole laboratory build.”

Steve Heaton Global Head of Research
Star Scientific
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Amicus Labline Profile

Based on our comprehensive knowledge of Australasian Standards and the latest materials available, we are your one-stop-shop for laboratory equipment, furniture, design and construction.

View our Amicus Labline profile to learn more about our lab design and construction capabilities and read insightful case studies. 

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From initial consulting to innovative design and seamless fitout, we have the vision and expertise to transform your lab space. Harness the power of our end-to-end lab design and construction services today.

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