As one of many impact paths of digital transformation, "digitalisation" affects the laboratory world in many ways. Digitalisation will, therefore, decisively influence and shape developments in the planning, construction, operation and use of laboratory buildings and laboratories soon.

• As a powerful support tool, digitalisation will directly intervene in previous cooperation processes known up to now and demand a new type of cooperation and other or new functions and roles for the cooperation partners.
• This already starts with the increasing automation of routine tasks or the collaboration between human laboratory workers and robots in the laboratory, where the control over the speed and proportion of work seems to be transferred from the people involved to robots that work quickly and more precisely.
• In the laboratory, experimental processes primarily generate a wealth of data, the streaming and management of which is usually carried out with the help of LIMS. Monitoring the equipment, its consumption data, maintenance requirements and, in other words, ensuring that it is ready for operation is also part of the digitisation process.    
• The digitalised planning method BIM is changing the cooperation between clients, planners, manufacturers and contractors in the planning and construction of laboratory buildings and other complex construction projects.
• The flow of digital data concerning building technology, occupancy and use enables pervasive management of the buildings. Therefore, the corresponding building administrations (facility management), established in the analogue, must develop their working methods further.

EGNATON and HIS-HE, Hannover, are coordinating a corresponding workshop to be held in spring 2023. Three working groups are preparing the topics in a series of working sessions.

Status of the workshop: active