Brightedge™ LED Lighting on Optima Benches
Amherst, MA – New England Lab recently completed two floors of laboratory furniture and fume hoods in phase 2 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Life Science Laboratories designed by ARC Architectural Resources Cambridge with construction manager, Consigli Construction Co.
The Institute for Applied Life Sciences focuses on collaborative interdisciplinary research between departments. To enable this collaboration, New England Lab provided Optima freestanding flexible bench systems along with Safeguard fume hoods and European steamed beech wood veneer casework.
Casework and Fume Hoods
The Optima benches are pre-wired and pre-piped to allow for reconfiguration of the lab as research changes.
In keeping with the building’s sustainable design, New England Lab provided intelligent Brightedge™ LED Lighting, an energy efficient task light integrated into the upper shelf of the bench system. This light features an advanced occupancy sensor that can turn off its own motion detector after a set period of inactivity, which eliminates false triggering of the light by other lab personnel.
