Laboratory Workstations

What we make

A laboratory bench is a piece of equipment, not a table. It has to hold instruments steady, resist whatever gets spilled on it, carry services to where they are needed, and stay rigid for years while people lean on it. We manufacture laboratory workstations to the room drawing at our Bommanahalli workshop — science lab furniture for schools and colleges, research and testing benches, instrument tables, and modular clean-room furniture.

Because we build rather than resell, dimensions come from your room and your equipment rather than from a catalogue page. That is the whole point of specifying a lab bench.

Configurations

Island benches

Free-standing benches accessed from both sides, usually the centrepiece of a teaching or wet lab. Service spines can run down the centre. Length is set by student or operator count and by how much circulation the room can spare.

Wall benches

Single-sided benches against a wall, with services taken from behind. The most space-efficient layout for a narrow room, and the simplest to service.

Peninsula benches

Wall-attached at one end and open at the other. A good compromise where the room is too narrow for a full island but a single wall run is not enough.

Instrument and balance tables

Heavier, more rigid tables for equipment that needs to sit still. Where vibration is a concern, the frame and top build differ substantially from a general bench — tell us what instrument is going on it.

Clean-room furniture

Modular units with simplified profiles and reduced dust-trapping detail, for controlled environments.

Under-bench storage

Fixed or mobile drawer and cupboard units, chemical storage, and open shelving. Mobile units are worth specifying where a room’s function is likely to change.

Specifying a laboratory bench

The specification conversation should start with what happens on the surface. A physics teaching lab and a chemical testing lab need very different tops, and choosing between them without knowing the work is guesswork.

• What will be spilled? Tell us the substances the surface will meet. We will specify a work surface suited to that exposure rather than applying a general-purpose top everywhere.
• Wet or dry? Wet benches need sinks, drainage and a splashback. Retrofitting plumbing into a dry bench is expensive and rarely tidy.
• Services. Power, data, gas and water need to be planned before manufacture. Decide the position and count of each outlet at drawing stage.
• Working height. Standing benches and seated benches are different heights. If the room does both, specify per bay rather than compromising across the whole room.
• Load. Heavy equipment needs a reinforced top and frame. Give us weights, not adjectives.
• Access underneath. Knee space for seated work, or full-height storage for standing work — you cannot have both in the same bay.
• Circulation and safety. Aisle widths, and clear routes to eyewash stations, showers and exits, should be agreed before the layout is fixed.

Materials and finishes

Frames are fabricated in mild steel section, welded and powder coated. The powder-coated finish suits lab environments because it is easy to wipe down and can be touched up in place.

Work surfaces are selected per application. We will discuss the options with you against your actual process rather than defaulting to one top for the whole building. Under-bench storage is built in metal or laminate depending on the room and what is stored. Sinks, splashbacks, service spines and reagent shelving are specified as part of the bench, not bolted on afterwards.

Who this suits

School and college science labs, engineering and technical institute labs, research facilities, and testing and quality-control labs in industry. We manufactured and delivered laboratory tables for IIT, and workstations for IIIT College — the latter as a repeat order following the initial lab table delivery.

Customisation

Every lab we build for is different, so effectively every order is custom. Bench lengths, service positions, storage mix, working heights and surface choice are all set per project. We work from your room drawing, and we will measure on site where the drawing and the building have drifted apart — which, in older institutional buildings, they usually have.

For phased fit-outs we keep the specification on record so a second lab built next year matches the first.

Discuss your lab

Send us the room drawing, the equipment list and a note on what the lab is actually used for. That is enough for us to come back with a layout and a quote.

Sri Ranga Interior Modular Furnitures #336/10, Hosur Road, near ICICI Bank, Bommanahalli, Bengaluru 560068 Phone: +91 98860 03777 · Email: info@srirangainterior.com