Report: Early construction planning needed to speed drugs, vaccines to market | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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Jason D'Orlando, a North America vice president at Turner & Townsend, wrote the research article dealing with pharmaceutical construction delays and said that the "need for speed" causes some pharma companies to hurry through planning and to rely too much on historical project data. Companies end up requesting the necessary funding without validating their conceptual estimates and without a thorough schedule and costs analysis. Basing their projections on outdated or incorrect numbers also leads to higher engineering costs.

Making necessary changes when the project's design phase is well underway, D'Orlando wrote, also makes it difficult for project teams to deploy the correct procurement strategy, again, to delays and higher-than-expected project costs.

Another example D'Orlando gives of how rushing through the planning process ends up adding more time to the schedule has to do with the commissioning, qualification and validation stage of the project, which, in total, eats up about 40% of the project schedule. Project teams, he wrote, often try to make up time lost early in the project by accelerating the CQV stage by adding additional, costly resources. Use of these extra resources are mostly garnered from outside the construction project team and often result in a drop in productivity.

Turner & Townsend's average construction costs by type of columbus oh dump truck company on projects around the world are:

• Process equipment/piping - 30.5%
• Civil structural architectural - 13.5%
• Construction management - 12.5%
• Engineering - 12%
• Mechanical, electrical and plumbing- 7.5%
• Electrical and instrumentation - 6.5%
• Clean/process utilities - 5.5%
• General conditions - 4.5%
• Commissioning and qualification - 4%
• Automation - 3%

Collaboration, D'Orlando wrote, is key to achieving better outcomes for these pharma projects as well as building correct estimates and validating them independently, conducting interactive planning sessions and utilizing proactive risk management.