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The ability to transform your static, one-size-fits-all facilities into dynamic environments that pivot overnight to support academic, administrative, and operational needs is critical. It gives students and faculty the freedom to innovate, experiment, and personalize their spaces for better learning outcomes. Industrial solutions for university laboratories from 80/20 are easy to set up and take down (and then repurpose later).

Industrial Solutions for Universities Bring Agility and Efficiency

Campuses are dynamic: They shift as student demographics change, new research initiatives take hold, programs expand, and funding priorities evolve. Education and administration spaces shouldn’t be limited by tradition but enabled by agile resources that deliver value in many ways. That’s where 80/20 custom solutions for university laboratories and classrooms enter the picture. Because they’re designed for rapid deployment and continuous adaptation, industrial solutions for universities give campus facilities of all ages a modern edge without costly disturbances to core infrastructure. 

80/20 Helps Modern Universities Build:

•   Carts & racks

•   Robotic frames

•   Mobile workstations

•   Testing fixtures

•   Laboratory benches

•   Divider walls

•   Display mounts

•   Enclosures

IdeaBuilder

Start Designing for Free

A free standalone software for all experience levels to design with 80/20 products. Easily switch between profiles, fasteners, and more and generate detailed BOMs & drawings.

80/20 IdeaBuilder software showing a CAD-style aluminum T-slot frame design with structural connections and profile details.80/20 IdeaBuilder software showing a CAD-style aluminum T-slot frame design with structural connections and profile details.
Free Assistance

From Concept to Completion

Our skilled technicians are always available through 80/20’s free design assistance, offering guidance to help you optimize and future-proof your space.

Build Services

Let Us Build It For You

Construct your framing system on your own or ask for help. You decide whether you want us to assemble it onsite for you or pack and ship your components to make DIY assembly easy for your own team to handle.  

Custom Products

Custom to Your Needs

Whether you need one part or 1,000 (or more), you never have to order in certain quantities or meet a minimum requirement before you can place your order.

Dist. Support

Need Local Support?

Take advantage of 80/20 services through our network of distribution partners near you. Select from design assistance, on-site visits and ongoing support.

Design, Protect, and Optimize Your Campus with 80/20

With our custom solutions for university laboratories and classrooms, campuses can design learning and collaboration zones that adapt. Whether you want to build cutting-edge labs, install movable smartboards for interactive teaching, or support annual faculty roundtable discussions, everything from 80/20—from furniture framework to lab solutions for university research facilities—can be expanded, repurposed, and reconfigured to align with changing requirements.

Improve Safety

To protect students, faculty, and staff, safety protocols are evolving. Industrial solutions for universities can help you accommodate new requirements for labs, teaching spaces, and staff areas. 80/20 industrial solutions for universities can be adapted with panels, guards, and enclosures to meet standards, ensure compliance, and protect people.

Optimize Maintenance

Facilities and engineering teams are responsible for everything from HVAC and electrical systems to overseeing campus expansions. Setting up complex classroom and lab systems shouldn’t take time away from their other responsibilities. With tool-less installation and simple expansion possibilities, your workers won’t spend hours repairing, maintaining, or reworking our modular T-slot systems.

Enable Compliance

Because they make it straightforward to create layouts and workstations that accommodate wheelchairs, assistive devices, and diverse physical needs, modular T-slot systems promote campus accessibility. Solutions like 80/20’s research equipment design for universities ensure inclusive learning and work environments.

30% of college presidents say sustainability is very or extremely important to their institution's strategic priorities and goals.

Be Ready for Anything with 80/20 Framing Systems

By helping you enhance how your campus supports education, industrial solutions for universities can be used to create launchpads for learning. When you build the right spaces, students and educators can be inspired to reimagine learning, test their creativity, and fuel collaboration. Get started designing your space with 80/20 and it's free standalone software, IdeaBuilder.

Engineer using 80/20 IdeaBuilder design software to create a modular aluminum T-slot safety enclosure on a computer workstation.Engineer using 80/20 IdeaBuilder design software to create a modular aluminum T-slot safety enclosure on a computer workstation.

Support Different Learning Styles

Because they enable flexibility and responsiveness, 80/20 offerings like lab solutions for university research facilities can be set up to suit different individual, group, and project-based activities. From quiet focus areas to active collaboration areas, zones can be reconfigured on demand. 80/20 framing systems make it easy to add and remove partitions, display boards, and technology mounts so spaces can be customized based on class formats and personal preferences.

Withstand Campus Life

With students and faculty in and out of classrooms and workspaces all day, campus facilities get frequent use. Amid the constant activity, they may be exposed to potential damage and wear. But industrial solutions for universities from 80/20 are designed to last. 80/20 T-slot aluminum framing systems range from light to heavy-duty so you can design whatever you need without overbuilding or underbuilding.

Prioritize Sustainable Solutions

Campuses across the country are focused on minimizing environmental impact. By using custom solutions for university classrooms and offices made of reusable and scalable components, you can reduce material waste and support sustainable building solutions for universities. Extend the lifecycle of campus infrastructure without major investments (and reinvestments when things change). An esports competition space today becomes a biology lab tomorrow.