You have a plan and a lab to fit into it. Upload the drawing, tell us the lab type, the area and how many people work in it, and get a preliminary review back on screen: how the space normally divides between bench, equipment and containment, roughly how much bench the area supports, and the decisions that have to be made before any casework is specified.
A lab plan is decided by the things that are not drawn on it
By the time a lab plan reaches the people who will work in it, the walls are usually set. What is not set — and what actually determines whether the lab works — is how much bench the room really supports, where the ventilated enclosures go, how much of the floor the instruments and their service clearances take, and whether the casework is fixed to today’s instrument list or flexible enough to survive the next one.
Those decisions get made late, and late is expensive. Hoods placed after the mechanical design is frozen mean the room gets redrawn. Instruments sized into leftover bench space mean the lab loses working surface in its first month. Work surfaces chosen off a finish schedule instead of a chemical list mean a bench that fails early. None of this shows up on the drawing.
This review works on what can be established honestly. It reads your file for text — room labels, printed dimensions, the scale note, the title block — and quotes it back so you can check it. Then it applies planning arithmetic to the area you give us and returns ranges with each assumption printed beside it. It does not measure the drawing and does not produce a layout. It tells you what the space can carry, and exactly which questions have to be answered before casework is specified.
Who this is for
- Lab directors and managers fitting out a new space or re-fitting an existing one
- Clinical, research, teaching, hospital and testing labs at any stage from concept to permit set
- Architects, lab planners and designers building a furniture and casework scope against a shell
- Facilities and project managers coordinating a lab fit-out across trades
- Anyone holding a plan and being asked how much bench and how many hoods it will take
What you need to hand
- Your lab floor plan — PDF, image, CAD or BIM. A PDF with a live text layer gives you the most back
- Lab type and where the project stands today, from an idea through to out-to-bid
- Total square footage or the overall dimensions of the lab area
- How many people work in the space at once
- What you are trying to achieve: bench capacity, fume hoods, casework material and finish, storage, cold chain, safety and compliance, room to grow
Don’t have all of it? Every field that can be left blank, can be — the tool tells you which missing number would change the answer most.
Upload your lab plan
Your full review appears on screen with no email address required. We only ask for your details if you want it emailed to you, want a person to read the actual drawing, or want a scope priced.
Prefer a full window? Open the lab floor plan review in a new tab.
How it works
Upload the plan you already have
PDF, JPG, PNG, DWG, DXF, RVT or IFC. The file is read in your own browser for text only, and it is stored with your project for our team — nothing is sent anywhere else to produce this review.
Describe the lab and the goal
Lab type, area, headcount and your priorities. Anything you do not know is left blank, and the review names it as missing rather than inventing it.
Read the preliminary review
A zone map of the footprint, bench and ventilated-enclosure planning ranges with the arithmetic shown, area per person, everything readable in your file quoted verbatim, and a checklist of what is still unknown.
Send the drawing to a person
When you want the geometry actually read — egress, eyewash reach, service clearances, hood placement against the mechanical design — the review and your file go to a specialist.
What the review actually gives you
A preliminary zone map. How a lab of your type and size normally divides between bench and casework, equipment and instruments, ventilated and containment areas, support and storage, and circulation and egress.
Bench and casework capacity as a range. Linear feet of bench the area supports, calculated at roughly 25 square feet of lab area per linear foot once aisle, knee space and instrument clearance are counted.
Area per person at peak. Your usable lab area against the number of people working in it at once — usually the first number that shows whether a plan is realistic.
A ventilated enclosure planning range. A hood-sized position density for the bench length, stated plainly as a starting point that your protocols and the mechanical design will overrule.
An honest missing-information checklist. Instrument list with service clearances and utilities, chemicals and processes in use, mechanical design intent including air changes and pressure relationships, and the occupancy schedule.
What this tool does not do
This is a preliminary review, not a layout, not a design and not an engineered drawing.
- The geometry of your drawing is not read. Text is extracted from the file; nothing is measured, scaled or interpreted from the lines on the page.
- Nothing here has been checked against the building code, the fire code, NFPA requirements, your mechanical design or your local jurisdiction.
- Bench and hood ranges assume a clear rectangular floor. Columns, doors, egress paths, service chases and existing equipment will all reduce them.
- Text found in an uploaded file is reported as found. It is not verified against the drawing and may come from an older revision.
- No pricing, lead time or availability is implied anywhere in the review. A person confirms all of that on a quote.
Products and related tools
All lab planning tools
Every free tool that turns a lab problem into numbers.
Lab Layout & Startup Scope Planner
Go the other way: turn headcount and lab type into a bench, hood and casework scope.
My Lab Project Binder
Keep the plan, the review and every specification for this project in one shareable link.
Laboratory casework
The systems these bench ranges are built on.
Fume hoods
Placement drives the mechanical design, so it belongs in the plan conversation early.
Casework specifications
Written specifications for the systems in this review.
Common questions
Do I have to give my email to get the review?
Does this actually read my drawing?
What file types can I upload?
How accurate is the bench linear foot range?
What happens to my floor plan after I upload it?
Can you tell me what the casework will cost?
Have a lab planner read the actual drawing
Send the plan in and a specialist reads what this tool deliberately does not: how the bench really lands, where the hoods have to go against the mechanical design, egress and eyewash reach, and what the instrument list does to the layout. You get back what they would change and what to specify first.