Targeted businesses

• Businesses operating in the life sciences or cleantech sector.
• Your company is past the start-up stage and is ready to transfer its activities to one or several labs for the pre-marketing or marketing of your products or services.

Or

• You run a foreign company and want to set up operations in North America.

Labs and equipment

→ Espace LABz offers private labs from 291 to 355 sq. ft. (27 to 33 sq. m.) with adjoining doors to provide several connecting spaces.

→ Espace LABz provides a shared lab with a cell culture room in a level 2 containment room (CL2), as well as the following equipment:

• Autoclave, dishwasher, and a drying chamber (2) for glassware
• Reverse osmosis water purification system
• Chemical fume hood (5 feet)
• Biosafety cabinet (3 feet)
• CO₂ incubators
• Storage
• Bain marie (2), scales (3), heat blocks (3), stirring hot plate (3), vortex mixers (4)
• Avanti Beckman centrifuge (1-litre rotor), centrifuge ultra (15 ml/50 ml)
• Microscope (2)
• Pipette set
• Refrigerator (4^oC), freezer -85⁰C (3) and ice machines (2)
• Tank storage location (e.g. CO₂, nitrogen, etc.)
• Glassware (bottles, Erlenmeyer flasks, beakers, graduated cylinders)
• Lab benches
• Combined emergency eyewash and safety showers (2)
• Secure and ventilated cabinet for chemicals (as well as outdoor storage)

The culture room is equipped with:

• Biosafety cabinet (6 feet)
• Bain marie, centrifuges (2) for Eppendorf 15- to 50-ml tubes, CO₂ incubators (2), microscopes (2)
• Lab coats

→ Espace LABz offers private offices from 98 to 352 sq. ft. (9 to 33 sq. m.) equipped with:

• One removable table and one filing cabinet
• One office chair and two guest chairs
• One white board

→ Espace LABz also provides for:

• Hazardous waste management
• Autoclave service
• Goods reception and landing dock
• Conference rooms (2)
• Dining and rest/lounge areas, outdoors lunch area, showers
• Elevator/freight elevator
• Parking
• Secure access and video surveillance
• Biosafety officer onsite