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7:40 am Check-in, Networking & Coffee & Breakfast
8:20 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Strengthening Partnerships with Reliable, Skilled Teams
8:30 am Understanding Pharma Construction Priorities: What Makes a Project Partner Standout?
- Identifying key owner expectations early to tailor delivery strategies and build trust for repeat work
- Understanding the value of transparent communication on project costs, schedules, and change orders during bidding to strengthen client relationships
- Evaluating how project partners can expand their service offerings to include early advisory, site selection, and risk evaluation to become a preferred long-term partner
9:10 am Panel Discussion: Building Skilled Project Teams at a Time Where Demand Exceeds Supply to Meet Specialized Life Science Demands
- Developing local talent pipelines in emerging biopharma hubs to expand skilled labor access, reducing the risk of project delays due to labor shortages
- Investing in life science specific training to guarantee GMP standards are met at turnover
- Ensuring all trades have the specialized skillset across cleanroom, process, and electrical equipment to ensure compliance across GMP environments
9:50 am Accelerating Biopharma Innovation: Modularization of Equipment for Faster, Smarter Facility Delivery Bullets
- Using off-site prefabrication and extreme modularization of process equipment to cut construction timelines by 20–50%, accelerating speed to market for emerging therapies
- Standardizing equipment modules to improve cost certainty, reduce site risk, and enhance quality control in complex life sciences projects
- Implementing reconfigurable modular equipment to support multiple modalities, simplify upgrades, and future-proof biopharma facilities
10:00 am Morning Refreshments & Networking
Optimizing Facility Performance
10:40 am Panel Discussion: Standardizing Data & Leveraging Advanced Digital Tools to Streamline Capital Project Workflows & Deliver Accurate, Data-Rich Handovers
- Standardizing data and transforming capital project processes to improve coordination across feasibility, design, construction, and handover to enable more efficient, predictable project delivery
- Implementing 3D modeling and leveraging virtual reality (VR) to enhance visualization of designs and existing facilities to empower owners to make informed decisions while streamlining operations
- Applying data standardization and deploying digital solutions across the portfolio to provide consistent insights, improve oversight, and allow owners to optimize investments and performance
11:20 am Case Study: Integrating Complex Systems Into Legacy Facilities to Retrofit Life Science Buildings Efficiently While Maintaining Operational Continuity
- Navigating legacy infrastructure constraints to integrate modern systems while minimizing disruption to active operations
- Adapting design expectations to existing infrastructure to ensure retrofit constructability
- Conducting thorough assessments of existing conditions to identify viable connection points and efficient installation
12:00 pm Strengthening Safety Outcomes During Commissioning, Qualification & Validation
- Identifying CQV safety risks across equipment installation, system integration, and validation to prevent chemical, mechanical, and sterile-environment incidents
- Applying proactive risk assessments and engineering and administrative controls to maintain GMP compliance and reduce safety-related delays
- Strengthening safety culture through targeted training, clear communication, and real-time monitoring to protect teams and keep CQV on schedule
12:10 pm Lunch Break
Driving Success with Regulatory Confidence
1:10 pm A Client’s Perspective: Redefining Project Controls as a Key Driver for on Budget, on Time & on Scope Projects
- Establishing client-led project controls to maintain visibility over cost, schedule, quality and safety performance
- Implementing proactive field oversight and accountability measures to ensure construction stays aligned with design intent and compliance standards
- Streamlining turnover and commissioning processes to deliver fully validated, operationally ready facilities on schedule
1:50 pm Regional Breakouts
Take part in our regional breakouts to discuss how life science construction challenges differ state-by-state and discover localized insights that can help you navigate permitting, labor, utility coordination, and more. Whether you’re working in North Carolina, Texas, the West Coast or beyond, this is your opportunity to connect with peers facing the same regulatory environments, market conditions, and logistical hurdles – and exchange strategies that work.
2:30 pm Panel Discussion: Complex Safety Risks to Enable Safe Coordination of Equipment at a Time of Increasingly Compressed Schedules
- Implementing proactive safety planning for high-risk and heavy equipment activities to ensure workers are always protected
- Aligning safety protocols with aggressive schedules to maintain project momentum without compromising compliance
- Facilitating cross-team communication and site awareness to reduce incidents and enable uninterrupted project execution