A Civil Engineering Lab Setup is used to study the effects of different types of pollutions or environment factors. It normally encompasses apparatus for analysis of air, water, soil, and biological specimens. Some of the equipment that might be considered essentials are gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, atomic absorption spectrometers, and analyzers for water quality. These include incubators, refrigerators, and freezers, for housing samples, as well as complex tools such as weather stations and soil analysers relevant to experiments taken outside the lab. This is why the feasibility of the innovation relies heavily on software and data management systems to capture and analyse the data collected.

Other equipment that is essential in an environmental lab includes, cleanrooms, fume hoods, and laminar flow hatch to minimize interferences during sample preparation. It also should provide safety measures such as eye wash stations, chemical storage, and adequate ventilation of the lab to safeguard those involved. The design of the lab should also be in a manner that separates or categorizes sections based on the various activities to be conducted in the lab. Environmental regulations and standards should also be followed in the lab to provide credible and accurate data to research environmental concerns for impact assessment, compliance, and monitoring.