Where Research,
Operations, and
Experience Align.
Formcraft partners with life sciences and pharmaceutical organizations to deliver workplace environments that support discovery, drive alignment, and adapt to the complex demands of both laboratory and administrative teams.
We combine workplace strategy, design, and construction into one integrated process, ensuring your space reflects how your people work across all disciplines. From regulatory requirements and MEP systems to employee experience and organizational change, we deliver results grounded in insight, coordination and control.
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Understanding the Life
Sciences Workplace Today
Understanding the Life
Sciences Workplace Today
In life sciences and pharmaceutical environments, the workplace is a system of interrelated functions - R&D, clinical, administrative, and operational - that all require distinct support.
Leadership teams are balancing increased demand for in-person presence with growing pressure to optimize square footage, enhance recruitment outcomes, and modernize legacy facilities. At the same time, functional teams need reliability, security, and precision without disruption to research flow.
In this landscape, decisions require nuance. Policies shift slowly. Approvals require input from multiple departments. And what works in one location may not apply elsewhere.
That’s why Formcraft’s workplace strategy process is built to navigate ambiguity, align stakeholders, and produce a roadmap that works across lab, office, and everything in between.
Life Sciences &
Pharma Priorities
01
Operational
precision
02
Safety-first
design
03
Flexibility
within constraints
Grounded in Science & Operations
In life sciences environments, strategy must consider both the physical layout and the operational relationships between lab and corporate teams. Formcraft brings simplicity to complexity through a proven process that:
• Defines space requirements across research, admin, and hybrid roles
• Surfaces operational priorities through cross-functional engagement
• Aligns decision-makers early to avoid rework and reduce delays
• Models multiple planning scenarios to suit different growth and compliance paths
Whether your facility supports clinical trials, scientific innovation, or global sales operations, we tailor each engagement to your workstreams, workflows, and workforce.
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Key Challenges Facing
Life Sciences
& Pharma
Planning for the life sciences workplace must go far beyond furniture and floorplans. Formcraft helps solve deeply embedded challenges that affect performance, compliance, and change readiness.
We integrate strategy, design and build, bringing leadership, operations, and lab planning into one conversation from the start. Common challenges we address include:
- Long lead times for lab-specific materials or permitting
- Disconnect between lab planning and workplace planning
- Gaps in communication between design, construction, and internal teams
- Inconsistent outcomes across regions or project phases
- Limited internal capacity for project management
Formcraft’s integrated design-build model brings strategy, design, and construction under one roof. This reduces friction, increases speed, and improves consistency across multiple sites. It also minimizes the burden on your internal team.
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25% faster
Project completion over our conventional peers
4 x greater
Estimating accuracy
50% less
Project management burden on your team
Planning for Lab
and Corporate Side by Side.
Planning for Lab
and Corporate Side by Side.
We understand the fundamental differences and the dependencies between laboratory and administrative spaces. That’s why our engagements start with discovery, data, and dialogue. Informed by lab planning and workplace strategy, we help organizations like yours:
• Identify where benching, equipment, or tech create crossover needs
• Define space types for scientists, managers, and hybrid users
• Reduce friction between in-office and lab workflows
• Evaluate policies and access requirements by team, function, and shift
• Provide seat types that match the task
Explore our project portfolio to see how we’ve brought design priorities to life for leading life sciences and pharmaceutical organizations across the US.
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Meeting and Support
Spaces with Purpose
Many life sciences organizations underinvest in meeting or training space, leading to workarounds that create noise, confusion, and inefficiency. Formcraft helps define what’s essential:
• Compact VC-enabled meeting rooms for project-based work
• Modest but purposeful training zones for compliance or onboarding
• Strategic separation between guest-facing and staff-only areas
• Mixed-use community zones where allowed without violating access policies
• Experience areas that elevate your identity in the eyes of partners and clients
Where hybrid attendance exists, we plan for it. Where 24-hour access is required, we accommodate it. Where collaboration is rare, we prioritize heads-down space.
Book a Leadership Workshop to explore a strategy tailored to your people, process, and pace of change.
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Navigating Security,
Access, and
Environmental Control
Lab-integrated workplaces carry heightened demands for zoning, separation, and MEP precision. These must be planned from the start. Our team works closely with your lab planners and security leads to:
• Define badging, access, and security protocols by area
• Plan airflow, environmental separation, and contamination controls
• Allocate storage, shipping, and receiving zones aligned to workflows
• Ensure 24-hour operations are supported by infrastructure and layout
• Map departmental adjacencies to support oversight, flow, and efficiency
We help you avoid redesigns by identifying functional misalignments early—and solving them at the source.
We understand that most firms are open to compromise - but only where it counts. Our job is to ensure the solution works for your people, your clients, and your bottom line. Looking to get more from every square foot? Let’s talk about what’s possible.
Life Science & Pharma Inputs
Why Life Sciences Companies Choose Formcraft
“Tenneco’s new office space and science lab brings clients to an exciting and refreshing transformation that we couldn’t be more proud of. Let the before and after photos tell the story.”
- Principal, Formcraft
Ready to discover what a design-build partnership could look like for your company? Book a Discovery Call with us today.