Day One
Tuesday 11 June 2024
7:00 am Check-In & Breakfast
8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Increasing Collaboration Between Stakeholders
8:10 am Panel: Understanding Current Owner Priorities to Enhance Your Competitive Advantage
Synopsis
- Uncovering the biggest challenges owners are facing with their current portfolios and the resulting strategic priorities going into 2025
- Highlighting lessons learned from past projects and AEC relationships: Where have we gone wrong and what do we need from our partners for success as a result?
- Exploring requirements for structural flexibility, modularization and quick to deploy fit out solutions to help owners navigate an industry in flux
8:50 am Supporting Client Portfolio Optimization to Create Longer-Lasting, More Beneficial Relationships
Synopsis
- Exploring the value that designers and contractors can bring during early capital planning cycles: What are the client gaps in knowledge that persist?
- Initiating conversations to contribute meaningful industry expertise in everything from site selection, to allocation of spend, to design standardization
- Navigating regional differences in requirements from the same customer to ensure consistent client satisfaction without compromising quality
9:30 am Aligning Project Expectations from the Outset to Improve Trust & Collaboration Across a Global Team
Synopsis
- Spotlighting the primary gaps in communication that lead to misalignment of project goals between owners, designers and contractors
- Building the foundations for success by setting clear parameters and expectations for handoffs from one stakeholder to another
- Agreeing clear documentation processes and leading indicators to prove the project is on track
10:40 am Speed Networking & Morning Refreshments
11:20 am Promoting a Collaborative Project Environment Through Early Team Onboarding to Increase Both Efficiency & Quality of Project Delivery
Synopsis
- Identifying the common obstacles to collaborative delivery models: What can be learned from them moving forward?
- Discussing how designers and contractors can support internal conversations to foster better collaboration throughout the project lifecycle
- Exploring how to create clear lines of communication during preconstruction to ensure project and overall team success
Optimizing Design Decision Making
12:00 pm Maximizing Flexibility in the Design Decision Making Process: Balancing Early Decision Making with the Ability to Integrate the Most Innovative Equipment & Operating Systems
Synopsis
- Understanding the impact that rapidly evolving scientific and technological innovations are having upon project cost and schedule escalation
- Pinpointing the critical hold points to avoid schedule and cost escalations, and what can be delayed to ensure maximum flexibility
- Having clear conversations upfront about client priorities to map out the necessary trade-offs for flexibility vs what needs to be locked in early
12:40 pm Lunch Break
1:40 pm Case Study: Building Adaptability into Facility Design to Maximize Future Resilience at Minimal Cost
Synopsis
- Exploring the opportunities for flexible design options and the impacts to project cost and schedule
- Identifying the main barriers in building flexibility into life science facilities and how to work towards overcoming them
- Ensuring MEP design has the capacity to deliver multi-modal facilities and prevent cross-contamination
2:20 pm Audience Discussion: Evolving Standard Design Formats That Meet Global Regulatory Standards to Capitalize on Speed-to-Market Across Your Portfolio
Synopsis
- Finding ways to stay on top of the constantly evolving regulatory requirements for life science facilities across multiple bodies
- Understanding what is most important to your client when dealing with multiple agencies and layers of standards
- Creating a standardized module design that can be utilized to accelerate design timelines across a client portfolio: What is the maximum amount of standardization that can be achieved?
3:00 pm Afternoon Refreshments
Challenging Facility Types
3:40 pm Navigating the Challenges of Building Laboratories to Spec with Developers to Accelerate Speed-to-Market & Adaptability for Any End-User
Synopsis
- Understanding how to bring maximum value to early conversations with your developer during conceptual design and logistics planning
- Designing with maximum flexibility and speed to ensure the developer is able to meet the needs of any tenant, and lease the space as quickly as possible: What additional tactics can be deployed in the construction phase to further minimize time to start up?
- Effectively working with end-users when they are onboarded to support fit-out in line with their requirements
4:20 pm Case Study: Supporting the Repurposing of Existing Infrastructure to Enhance Client Portfolios
Synopsis
- Understanding the benefits for the client of repurposing existing spaces rather than building from the ground up
- Utilizing innovative solutions for evaluation of existing facility layout and systems to support site selection and inform design decision making
- Creating a robust plan to minimize disruption to facility operations and increase efficiencies during construction and beyond