Feasibility studies for laboratory projects

Analysis of planned activities – feasibility study for the laboratory project

We understand laboratory feasibility studies as the analysis of implementation options of a project on the basis of given guidelines and constraints. The project study on the other hand shows general possibilities, without checking the feasibility in concrete consideration of specific circumstances.

Thus, the feasibility study asks: Is it possible to realize the project under the given conditions?
The project study asks: What are possible ways to implement the idea?

The feasibility study can be part of a project study or can be conducted afterwards.

Examples for laboratory feasibility studies:

• Possible technical equipment of a new laboratory
• Technical procedure of the relocation of a laboratory
• Cost-effectiveness of a new analysis system

Further possibilities for a feasibility study

The laboratory feasibility study can answer questions from the following areas:

• Organisational feasibility
• Economic feasibility (investment, cost of operation, funding, economic feasibility)
• Technological feasibility
• Ressources and availability (people, know how, spaces, conditions, material, time)
• Chronological implementation
• Legal implementation

Note: The definition of the project study and the feasibility study is imperative only for our activities in the context of laboratories and laboratory projects and is not generally binding.