Client: Confidential

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A More Efficient Way to Deliver Critical cGMP Facilities

When a company is in the business of creating life-saving medicines, speed to market is critical. Project delivery solutions that get new facilities online faster while bringing out the best of a high-performing team is vital. In those situations, collaborative delivery is the prescription.

Eliminating the typically siloed environment of traditional design-bid-build approaches, collaborative delivery demands teamwork, communication and partnership that leads to enhanced schedules, lower real costs, and safer work environments, all while delivering innovative solutions. Collaborative delivery is ideal for complex, fast-paced cGMP construction that fuels groundbreaking treatments and cures.

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Client: Confidential

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Leveraging Lean, VDC and IPD to Enhance Efficiency

[Confidential Client]’s new regional ambulatory center addresses the need for medical services in underserved Santa Clara, CA. The East Santa Clara campus will convert roughly 300,000 sq. ft. of 1980s office space to medical facilities focused on primary and specialty care, along with an ambulatory surgery center, and urgent care.

Conversions can pose challenges, such as structural limitations. For this project, the existing roof could not support the weight of utilities needed for new equipment. A collaborative preconstruction phase guided by Lean principles enabled the team to devise innovative solutions and stay on track.

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Target Value Design: The Secret Sauce for Speed to Market & Maximizing Value

According to CBRE’s North American Data Center Report, United States data center inventory increased by record levels in 2019, up by 22% from 2018. In the rush to build and get new facilities online, owners typically take a speed-to-market approach to construction that leads to incomplete designs, cost overruns and schedule delays. As the old saying goes, “You can have it fast, good or cheap. But not all three.” But an alternative design and delivery model breaks that paradigm, promising to deliver higher quality projects on time and on budget.

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