While less efficient physically, this model fosters organizational and human interaction, which offers a different set of benefits. Spatial organization and dimensions Buildings that house complex, multidisciplinary, research-oriented departments with extensive and diverse laboratories such as EAPS must be planned and organized in three dimensions. As the most demanding of the space types, laboratory needs tend to rule. This 10' module also happens to accommodate the minimum width for a typical office. Traditionally, the minimum length of a typical lab module was 20', but a trend to larger dimensions has produced larger modules.
Actual labs are typically two or more lab modules wide.
Multiple vertical shafts, sometimes positioned on the exterior of a building. The higher from the ground a floor is located, the greater the restrictions on the storage of hazardous materials such as solvents. Typically this dictates that wet labs be located from the basement to the fifth floor of a building. Centrally, in the same way basic services such as electricity and hot and cold domestic water are provided. Locally, in the laboratory space itself.