The Life Science Factory (LSF) was built in 2022 on the site of the former Sartorius factory in Göttingen, Germany. Encompassing 3,300 square meters, the LSF offers researchers space to explore their start-up ideas outside of the academic field. Open offices, a prototyping workshop, and state-of-the-art laboratories provide optimal conditions for start-ups to drive research, accelerate market launches, and increase their competitiveness. The LSF offers everything they need: peer exchange, equipment, media access, security, and flexibility.
Nurturing life science start-ups requires more than modern office space. What is needed, first and foremost, are suitable labs that can be used flexibly, i.e, shared labs or flex labs. They are easy to customize and can quickly be converted to meet new requirements. In addition, it was essential to meet structural and safety-related requirements in accordance with German and European standards and to ensure an efficient energy supply that keeps pace with demand. Another challenge: The LSF had to be move-in ready in nine months.

Siemens delivered a winning concept: all labs and their components, including fume hoods and room and primary system controls, are integrated in the building management platform Desigo CC and can be easily controlled and monitored. To meet new laboratory requirements, the rooms are divided into very small segments. This allows operators to make changes to the room layout at any time, even during operation and without rewiring. For example, it is possible to quickly merge two separate labs into a single lab.  
The Critical Environment Technology (CET) laboratory solution, based on our building automation system Desigo, ensures that lab operations are energy-efficient and safe. Air flows and room pressure values are continuously measured, monitored and adjusted according to room use (for example, lowered at night). In addition, Desigo Room Automation provides demand-based lighting and shading control throughout the building. The Desigo CC Powermanager module monitors energy consumption. It is linked to our cloud-based energy and asset management platform Navigator and allows consumption to be documented and analyzed at any time. Human Centric Lighting, which simulates natural daylight and automatically adjusts lighting conditions to the biorhythms of the building‘s occupants, improves wellbeing and productivity.  
A complete concept incorporating building automation, fire protection and security solutions ensures maximum safety: unsafe laboratory conditions, such as faulty fume hood exhaust behavior, are indicated right at the fume hood, allowing users to react quickly. The Sinteso fire detection system offers earliest possible fire detection and reports fires as soon as they start. A fire damper solution and the Transliner intrusion detection system round out the security concept.

Next level co-working for life science start-ups.