Case Study: CAS Shanghai Modular Cleanroom & Laboratory

Home› Project Cases› Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Campus, Shanghai Project Case Study · Scientific Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Campus, Shanghai: A Modular Cleanroom & Laboratory Build How Wonclean delivered two complementary builds for one Shanghai research campus — a multi-floor indoor cleanroom and animal-barrier fit-out, and a plug-and-play, ark-style outdoor modular laboratory dropped into a wooded site with no building foundation. modular cleanroom clean room laboratory modular laboratory Shanghai Zhangjiang, Pudong — China 2 buildings South Buildings 1 & 2, multi-floor fit-out Indoor + outdoor Cleanroom fit-out plus a mobile modular lab 2024 Materials and modular unit by Wonclean By the Wonclean project team Published June 2026 ~9 min read When a leading Chinese Academy of Sciences research campus in Shanghai needed to expand its laboratory capacity, it faced two very different problems at once: how to upgrade demanding research and animal-barrier space inside an operating building, and how to add a fully functional laboratory outdoors, on a wooded plot with no building to put it in. Wonclean supplied both — the cleanroom envelope for the indoor floors, and a self-contained, ark-style modular laboratory for the outdoor site. This case study walks through the brief, the constraints, and the engineering decisions behind each part of the project, and why a modular approach fit a working scientific campus so well. A laboratory placed, not poured. The ark-style modular laboratory after installation — a complete clean envelope set down among the campus’s mature trees, with no permanent building required. Project snapshot At a glance Client A Chinese Academy of Sciences research institute, Shanghai (incl. the USTC Shanghai Research Institute on the same campus) Location Zhangjiang, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China Sector Scientific research & life sciences, including a laboratory-animal (barrier) facility Scope Indoor cleanroom & barrier fit-out across South Buildings 1 & 2 (multiple floors) plus one outdoor ark-style modular laboratory Wonclean supply Cleanroom wall panels, cleanroom doors, cleanroom fire doors, fire windows, and a complete modular laboratory unit Approach Prefabricated, modular construction for minimal on-site disruption and fast deployment 01 — The brief One campus, two very different needs Research campuses rarely grow in tidy, planned steps. This one needed to solve two requirements in parallel. Inside its South Buildings, several floors had to be converted into controlled research environments — including an upper-floor laboratory-animal facility, which carries some of the strictest contamination-control and finish requirements of any laboratory type. At the same time, the campus needed additional, independent laboratory space quickly, and the only available ground was a tree-shaded plot with no structure on it. A conventional answer — pour a new building for the outdoor space, a...