Targeted businesses
- Businesses operating in the life sciences or cleantech sector.
- Your company is past the start-up stage and is ready to transfer its activities to one or several labs for the pre-marketing or marketing of your products or services.
Or
- You run a foreign company and want to set up operations in North America.
An exceptional setting
- Benefit from the distinctive synergy and proximity of the Sherbrooke Science Park, which is home to researchers, specialized businesses, qualified labour, cutting-edge equipment, and laboratory services.
- Take advantage of modern lab and office spaces with ample natural light.
- Discover a city bustling with innovation and a dynamic and engaged community.
Labs and equipment
Espace LABz offers private labs from 291 to 355 sq. ft. (27 to 33 sq. m.) with adjoining doors to provide several connecting spaces.
Espace LABz provides a shared lab with a cell culture room in a level 2 containment room (CL2), as well as the following equipment:
- Autoclave, dishwasher, and a drying chambers for glassware
- Reverse osmosis water purification system
- Chemical fume hood (5 feet)
- Biosafety cabinet (3 feet)
- CO2 incubators
- Storage
- Bains-marie, scales, heat blocks, stirring hot plates, vortex mixers
- Avanti Beckman centrifuge (1-litre rotor), centrifuge ultra (15 ml/50 ml)
- Microscopes
- Pipette set
- Refrigerator (4oC), freezers -85oC and ice machines
- Tank storage location (e.g. CO2, nitrogen, etc.)
- Glassware (bottles, Erlenmeyer flasks, beakers, graduated cylinders)
- Lab benches
- Combined emergency eyewash and safety showers
- Secure and ventilated cabinet for chemicals (as well as outdoor storage)
The culture room is equipped with:
- Biosafety cabinet (6 feet)
- Bains-marie, centrifuges for Eppendorf 15- to 50-ml tubes, CO2 incubators, microscopes
- Lab coats
Espace LABz offers private offices from 98 to 352 sq. ft. (9 to 33 sq. m.) equipped with:
- One removable table and one filing cabinet
- One office chair and two guest chairs
- One white board
Espace LABz also provides for:
- Hazardous waste management
- Autoclave service
- Goods reception and landing dock
- Conference rooms (2)
- Dining and rest/lounge areas, outdoors lunch area, showers
- Elevator/freight elevator
- Parking
- Secure access and video surveillance
- Biosafety officer onsite
Innovative and engaged businesses
Location
Espace LABz
2650, Maximilien-Chagnon Street
Sherbrooke (Québec) Canada
J1E 0M8
- In the core of the Sherbrooke Science Park
- 140 km east of Montreal
- 50 km north of the U.S. border
Contact
Martine Courtemanche
Cheffe en développement industriel et technologique | Sciences de la vie et micro-nanotechnologies
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Espace LABz is the result of a collaboration between the City of Sherbrooke, the Comité de promotion industrielle de Brompton (CPIB) and the Comité de promotion industrielle de Sherbrooke (CPIS), with the support of Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions. It is jointly managed by the CPIB and Entreprendre Sherbrooke.