Day Two
Wednesday 12 June 2024
7:30 am Check-In & Breakfast
8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Enhancing Facility Sustainability
8:10 am Case Study: Building Fully Electrified, More Sustainable Labs
Synopsis
- From grid capacity, to cost: Understanding the parameters of each geography to determine the feasibility of going all electric
- Identifying power alternatives to utilize as redundancies in the event of electrical outages to ensure clients viability of business
- Exploring the gaps in technology and infrastructure that prohibit standardized facility electrification: What are the other alternatives you can utilize outside of electrification?
8:50 am Benchmarking Best Practices to Improve Energy Efficiency of Facilities & Achieve More Ambitious Sustainability Targets
Synopsis
- Understanding owner motivations behind sustainability targets and metrics for success
- Evaluating the emerging solutions to enhance energy efficiency, the challenges with each, and which is best suited to different facility types
- Having more effective conversations with your client during the design phase to uncover genuine sustainability priorities and make the right design decisions and trade-offs to meet these expectations
- Discussing differences in sustainability requirements between various governing bodies and the common ground between them to inform a level of standardization in facility design
10:00 am Morning Refreshments
10:30 am Audience Discussion: Integrating the Latest in Facility Automation to Design the Next-Generation of Life Science Manufacturing Facilities
Synopsis
- Exploring the types of automation providing the highest ROI for clients, and what this means for project cost
- Identifying the key aspects of facility design that will be most affected as automation becomes a greater priority for owners, and how to allow for later design decisions to be made as a result
- Evaluating the additional considerations that need to be built into facility design to provide the optimal control environment for these technologies to operate in
Accelerating Speed-to-Market
11:10 am Spotlighting the Latest Advances in Prefabrication Transforming Cost & Schedule Certainty
Synopsis
- Examining lessons learned from utilization of prefabrication: What are the areas that can be packaged together to realize further efficiencies?
- Highlighting the key scheduling and design changes that need to be implemented when utilizing prefabrication to keep the entire project team in alignment
- Ensuring quality of prefabrication modules to prevent cross contamination and keep in line with facility requirements
- Examining parallel industries to understand what can be implemented from other global programs into life science prefabrication workflows
11:50 am Reviewing the Procurement Timeline to Reduce Schedule Delays & Cost Inflation
Synopsis
- Reviewing which products are likely to have the longest lead time in today’s market and how these are tracking over the next 12 months
- Streamlining the decision-making process and understanding the cost of time to overall project completion to ensure optimal budget adherence
- Aligning project team behind acceptance criteria for long lead products to enable teams to find the right alternatives when number one choices are not available
- Identifying the optimal vendors to utilize to find the right balance between upfront cost and money saved by keeping to original schedule
12:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm Standardizing the Document Management System for Clients to Prevent Schedule Delays & Achieve Maximum ROI
Synopsis
- Implementing a successful EDMS to increase project efficiency and understanding the unknown costs negated through doing so
- Utilizing metadata for efficient document lookup to increase client satisfaction and expedite auditing process
- Aligning each stakeholder around the expectations and requirements for this process to work effectively
Building Future Capacity
2:10 pm Building a Specialized Project Team to Deliver on Ever Evolving Project Volume & Complexity
Synopsis
- Finding new ways to source individuals with the expertise and experience to ensure facility design and construction is evolving alongside the market demands
- Training inexperienced project teams to deliver on complex life science facilities when migrating out of the standard life science geographical hubs
- Managing manpower allocation at the management and craft level to upscale project delivery volume and maintain level of quality
2:50 pm Audience Discussion: Exploring Future Trends & Market Demands to Plan for 2024 & Beyond
Synopsis
These breakouts offer a space to strategize on how the insights gained from this event can translate into impactful actions for both your external clients and internal teams, and ensure you walk away with tangible actions to implement with your team back in the office.