Keep one lab project in one place. Save casework specifications, Revit and CAD content, fume hood and worksurface references, design tools and planning results, and get a private link that reopens the whole thing on any device and can be shared with your architect, your PI and your procurement team.
A lab project outlives everyone’s memory of it
Lab projects run long. A scope gets sketched when the grant is written, the architect joins months later, procurement arrives later still, and somewhere in the middle a PI changes what the room has to do. By the time casework is being specified, the reasoning behind half the decisions lives in an email thread that nobody can search and a drawing that exists in three versions.
The cost of that shows up at the worst possible moment: when bids come back and cannot be compared, because each vendor answered a slightly different scope. Or when a hood is specified into a room whose ventilation was sized before the hood count changed. Or when the SEFA requirements everyone agreed on in March are not written into anything anyone can point at in September.
A binder does not solve lab design. It solves the losing. Save the specifications, the Revit content, the standards, the tools and the results you are working from, and keep them behind one link that everyone on the project can open — including the person who joins in month seven.
Who this is for
- Lab managers and PIs planning a new lab, a move or a renovation
- Architects and lab planners collecting casework specifications and Revit content for a submittal
- Facility and capital project managers coordinating a fit-out over many months
- Procurement teams who need every bid requested against one documented scope
- Anyone who has used our lab planning tools and wants to keep the result
What you need to hand
- A project name and what stage it is at — research through to ready to bid
- Optionally: lab type, city and state, area involved, and the date the space has to be operational
- Casework specifications, Revit and CAD content, guides, design tools and product references worth keeping
- Your own notes — the constraints and decisions that otherwise live in email
- The people on the project: PI, architect, contractor, EHS, procurement
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.
Build your lab binder
Your binder saves and gives you its private link with no email address required. We only ask for your details if you want it emailed, want the project reviewed, or want what is in it priced.
Prefer a full window? Open the lab project binder in a new tab.
How it works
Name the project and say where it stands
The stage you choose decides what is useful to show you. Early planning needs different help from a project that is being drawn, and neither needs a sales pitch.
Save the specifications and files you are working from
Search our laboratory casework specifications, Revit blocks and CAD content, checklists, design tools and product references, and keep the ones this project actually needs.
Get your private link
The binder saves to a link of its own that reopens on any device. Send it to the architect, the PI, EHS and procurement so everyone works from the same scope.
Come back and add to it
Lab projects take months. Every time you return the binder is as you left it, and anything you add is there for everyone with the link.
What you get, and what it is honestly for
A private, shareable link. No login and no account. Anyone you send the link to opens the same binder, which is what makes it useful across a design team — and why it should be shared like any other project link.
Specifications and Revit content in one list. Casework specifications, BIM/CAD and Revit blocks, guides and product references grouped by type, so what the project is missing is visible at a glance.
Your planning results attached. If you have run the lab startup scope planner or the specification analyzer on this browser, those runs are attached to the binder for whoever reviews it.
An honest list of gaps. If the project is at design stage with no specification and no model content saved, the binder says so plainly rather than waiting for the bid stage to reveal it.
Live links, never copies. Everything points at the current page on this site, so a specification saved months ago opens as the current version.
What this tool does not do
A binder is a working file. It is not a submittal package, a stamped design, a ventilation calculation or a quote.
- Nothing saved here has been checked against your building, your codes, your ventilation design or your hazard assessment. That happens with a person.
- The binder keeps links, notes and tool results — it does not store your own drawings or files.
- Anyone with the link can open the binder. It is unlisted rather than password protected.
- Product and specification content comes from the live pages on this site and changes when they do.
- No pricing appears in the binder. Lab casework cost depends on material, configuration, quantity, freight and installation.
Products and related tools
All lab planning tools
Every free tool that produces a result worth keeping in a binder.
Lab Startup Scope Planner
Turn headcount and area into a real bench, hood and casework scope.
Lab Specification & RFP Analyzer
See what a lab specification or RFP is really asking for.
Laboratory casework specifications
Written specifications you can save straight into a binder.
Laboratory casework Revit blocks
BIM content for the products being specified.
Laboratory design tools
Bench, casework, fume hood and cleanroom configurators.
Common questions
Do I have to give my email to use the lab project binder?
How long does the binder last?
Can I share it with my architect and my PI?
What can I save in it?
Can I upload my drawings?
Does it give me pricing?
Have a lab specialist review what you have put together
Send the binder in and someone who specifies labs for a living reads what you have saved, tells you what is missing before it becomes a change order, and says which decisions have to be made first. No obligation, and no pricing pressure.