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Instructional Labs

Pharmaceutical Cabinets – East Grand Forks Technical College – East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Pharmaceutical Cabinets

East Grand Forks Technical College
East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Even though laboratories used for educating may be comparatively simple in their applications, they are quite demanding in their requirements. Besides being durable, they must provide locked storage for projects and supplies, and need to accommodate multiple utility runs. In some cases such as technical colleges, they even need to provide a true-to-life representation of the environments in which students will eventually work.

At TMI, we have been able to couple our knowledge of laboratories with more than three decades of experience in building casework for educational environments. The result is a thorough understanding of lab design which optimally facilitates both teaching and learning.

 

Four-Station Student Island – Norwood High School – Norwood, Minnesota

Research Lab

Norwood High School
Norwood, Minnesota

Instructional lab layouts should accommodate supervision of individual or partnered project work, as well as group instruction. A room which is visually open enables the instructor to maintain a sight line with all students and move about freely to offer assistance and answer questions.

With hundreds of students coming and going through the same lab every year, the durability of the casework and countertops must be uncompromising. In schools, colleges, and universities all across the continent, labs furnished by TMI have proven themselves resilient to the rigors of academic life. We build them tough. We build them to last.

 

Science Lab – Lake Junior High School – Woodbury, Minnesota

Science Lab

Lake Junior High School
Woodbury, Minnesota

Appearances are also very important in instructional laboratories. In many cases, science labs make a visual statement about the facility’s overall commitment to academic excellence. In colleges and universities, lab aesthetics can also be instrumental in recruiting top-notch faculty and students.