Screen a flex suite for wet-lab conversion before you tour the tenant
Lesson 4 of 6 · Select the site against the program
1 · Learn the move · Fact-check list
Lab tenants are one of the reasons a flex business community exists: single story, 16-18 ft clear, a dock at the back, and a suite you can build out to whatever office and lab share the tenant needs. That flexibility is also how a lab lease goes wrong. A prospect sends a requirements sheet, leasing says 'we can do that', and the problems surface after the lease is signed: the building's one electrical service was sized for office and warehouse suites, the slab and roof were designed for something lighter, there is no generator, the zoning approval lists office and light industrial but not laboratories, and the fire code limits how much hazardous material a suite can hold. Before you tour the prospect, run a fact-check list: one line per requirement, the building's own record quoted beside it, or [NEEDS: ...] where your records are silent. Simple arithmetic on your own records is fair, such as the suite's share of the building's area against its share of the electrical service, or its parking share against the staff count it asked for. A figure that looks short is FLAGGED and routed to the electrical or structural engineer, never failed on the model's say-so. Zoning goes to the planner, hazardous materials to a code consultant and the fire marshal, lab drain discharge to the sewer authority.
Fact-check this suite against the prospect's lab requirements. One line per requirement: REQUIRED (quoted) | OUR RECORD (quoted, with the document) | FLAGGED, CONSISTENT or [NEEDS: ...]. Arithmetic only on figures in our records, tagged [verify]. A figure that may be short is flagged for the engineer, not failed. Zoning to the planner, hazardous materials to a code consultant and the fire marshal, lab drains to the sewer authority. No view on whether to lease. [requirements sheet] [building data sheet] [drawing excerpts] [zoning approval]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Your firm built and manages Building C at the Wrenhollow Business Community in Marrowgate County. A diagnostics lab prospect wants to tour next week. Its requirements sheet: 'approximately 14,000 SF', 'about 60% wet lab, 40% office', 'six fume hoods', '480V three-phase to the suite, minimum 800 amps', 'standby power for freezers and fume hood exhaust', 'hazardous materials storage room', 'dock access for gas cylinder deliveries', 'parking for 45 staff'. Your records: property management's building data sheet ('Building C, 72,000 SF, single story', '16 ft clear', 'suites C-4 and C-5, combined 14,400 SF, contiguous, each with one dock-high and one drive-in door', 'one 1,600 A, 277/480V, 3-phase service for the building', 'no generator', 'wet-pipe sprinkler system', '190 parking spaces shared by Building C'); as-built drawing sheet S-1 ('slab on grade: 5 in, 3,000 psi, unreinforced', 'roof: steel joists, design roof live load 20 psf'); and the original zoning approval letter ('BP-2 Business Park: office, flex office/warehouse, light industrial'). Nothing on lab drain discharge, exhaust, or other tenants' electrical demand. Write the prompt.
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