Taking the wood out of my own eye before I try to take it out of the eyes of others..
We do not have the luxury of a million years to size our factories.However, neither should we now be constrained by the size of a human, a building or by the relatively recent economic dogma..
I don’t think we can credibly argue that capitalism has not been a key enabler in the rapid technological advancements of the last two to three hundred years.And when we talk about capitalism, we cannot ignore the name Adam Smith.The problem I have with the way we’ve taken Smith’s thoughts and works is that it is piecemeal and skewed – we’ve latched onto some of his insights without exploring them more widely.
He was one of the first theorists to develop the idea of the economy of scale.How making things bigger, growing operations tends toward greater economic efficiency.
He was right, in some circumstances.
The problem is that such simple rules, although alluring, can be unhelpful or plain wrong in other circumstances..It is often the case that the laboratory equipment list is updated and changed well into the design stages, with many meetings and complicated reasoning behind changes.
Keeping a detailed action and decision log is very important, therefore.The laboratory equipment can have a major impact on not just the design philosophy behind the lab design layout and services, but also the environment, health and safety (EHS)..
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Requirements.Some processes within labs are hazardous or toxic to health, and these are usually communicated to the laboratory design team by the client early in the design phases.