A Virtual Tour: BonaDent Dental Laboratories

You know the old adage, "if you're going to do something halfway, don't do it at all"? Bruce
Bonafiglia, CDT, certainly took that advice to heart when designing and building BonaDent Dental Laboratories' new, 35,000-sq.-ft. facility in Seneca Falls, New York. The shiny steel building, set in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, has it all—for technicians and dentists alike. "My objective was to attract and retain the best—and that means technicians and dentists," says Bonafiglia, owner of the 93-employee laboratory. "This facility was built with both in mind."

Two years in the planning, the laboratory was completed in seven months—and relatively smoothly, too—most likely because Bonafiglia was heavily involved in the design and construction. "I'm a frustrated architect," he says, "with a good memory for building and details. Everything you see here is a design element I've seen...