Early on in 21 Erie Street’s renovation, SmartLabs partnered with DIRTT, office furniture and laboratory bench and equipment providers known for making universal, demountable components. This partnership ensured that each lab space could be easily modified and customized to support a vast array of future members.
The concept is simple: members can rent everything from a single lab bench to a full laboratory with office space. Not only can these members have a lab space that was initially set up to be a single bay wide, or perhaps two or three bays wide, but they can also reposition wall components and furniture to expand or contract entire work areas based on the needs of their science.