Mobile COVID-19 Testing Labs Being Produced for Higher Education, Corporate, and Manufacturing Campuses

MEMBER ONLY CONTENT: As college and corporate campuses reopen this fall, a new line of mobile testing labs may help these institutions enhance their public health profile.

(HOK/Germfree Laboratories Inc.) ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: As college and corporate campuses reopen this fall, a new line of mobile testing labs may help these institutions enhance their public health profile.Global architecture firm HOK teamed up with Germfree Laboratories Inc., an experienced manufacturer of mobile biosafety labs, to design biosafety level two (BSL 2+) labs that offer a rapidly deployable facility for testing active or suspected cases of COVID-19. Intended to address the needs of large institutions, including colleges and universities, corporations with expansive campuses, manufacturing facilities, and government installations, the labs can provide full-time, high-volume testing without the need to build new structures.Composed of two Germfree modules, the labs accommodat
Elizabeth Razzi served as editor in chief of Urban Land from 2011-2021. She has been a writer and an editor for The Washington Post, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and other publications.
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