In general, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities (usually of Class 7 and 8) tend to occupy large areas and volumes (large isolated buildings), due to the nature of the operations (such as tall process equipment availability, high capacity storage, etc.). In principle, larger spaces have higher potential fire loads. Based on this assumption, and in order to…

Although building size will fundamentally vary depending on the production capacity of a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, in general this type of building tends to occupy large areas and volumes due to the nature of the business (such as tall process equipment, high capacity warehouse storage, etc.). During facility design, it has always been a common…