Evaluating Millwork vs. Casework: Key Advantages for Healthcare Environments

AUSTIN, Texas - Oct. 29, 2024 - PRLog -- Solutions to Meet the Changing Needs of Today's Healthcare and Laboratory Furniture Installations

Specifying the right kind of furniture for healthcare and laboratory installations is more complicated than ever, thanks to today's challenging healthcare and laboratory environments.

Lab managers, architects and designers, space planners, and furniture professionals are facing a challenging and diverse set of requirements – here are just a few of which that may be on your project requirement list:

Doing more with less, e.g. getting more functionality out of each square foot.

1. Accommodating unconventional sites, e.g. converting retail, office, or warehouse facilities into healthcare and laboratory settings.
2. Finding ways to future-proof healthcare and laboratory installations, e.g. making it possible to change facility layouts as requirements evolve.
3. Designing modern shared open laboratory and healthcare spaces that allow expensive equipment resources and space allocation across a larger number of teams than before.
4. Creating more inviting laboratory spaces (useful for talent acquisition) that seamlessly integrate with adjoining office areas – a change from the legacy approach of segregating lab spaces away in less accessible areas, such as basements.
5. Finding ways to reduce costs, shorten lead times, and speed up onsite installation times.

What are the Most Appropriate Applications for Traditional Millwork, Fixed Casework, Modular Casework, and Modular Workbenches in Different Healthcare and Laboratory Installation Scenarios?

When specifying furniture for laboratory and healthcare facilities, today's clients have a wide range of furniture choices to choose from, including traditional millwork, fixed casework, modular casework, and modular workbenches.

This abundance of choices can be confusing for end-user clients who may not be familiar with what makes the most sense in meeting their unique needs.

Let's look at each of these four different types of healthcare and laboratory furniture categories and identify the most appropriate applications for each one.

• Appropriate Applications for Traditional Millwork

Traditional millwork can be a preferred choice, especially when matching existing legacy installations – such as restoring historically significant interiors or creating sensitive additions that mimic the look and feel of traditional laboratory installations – or choosing to create a statement architectural design element.

Because each millwork installation is individually designed, this choice requires more coordination and development time to create the necessary detailed architectural drawings needed to define each component before they can be commissioned for milling at the factory and sent to the installation site for final construction.

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