prEN 14056-5

Laboratory furniture - Recommendations for design and installation - Part 5: Services distribution carriers

Publication date:   Jan 29, 2026

Scope

This document is applicable to biology, chemistry and physics laboratories where research, preparative, analytical, process activities take place and which can involve work with hazardous substances, including higher education (college and university teaching and post-graduate research).
This document does not cover the requirements of schools, i.e. precollege/pre-university (refer to EN 13150), or highly specialist laboratories which need very specific, bespoke solutions to enable them to function.
This document specifies requirements for various types of services distribution carriers typically used in combination with laboratory bench types as covered in the EN 14056 series. This document gives guidelines for all parties involved in the planning, design, manufacture, installation, testing of a new laboratory or in the refurbishment of an existing laboratory.