Medihotels – Can Hotels Become Hospitals in Times of Crisis?
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Medihotels – Can Hotels Become Hospitals in Times of Crisis?

The Covid-19 pandemic has unquestionably highlighted the pressure placed on our healthcare systems through the rapid increase in the number of patients requiring intensive care. It has clearly evidenced the lack of available hospital beds and support services that are available at short notice in a pandemic, and has indirectly highlighted how many hotels are…

Circular Project Management – The Right Management Spin
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Circular Project Management – The Right Management Spin

Circular Project Management sounds like it could very well reflect the real-life processes that take place during the life cycle of a new venture. Sometimes, designing and building manufacturing facilities can feel a bit like you’re on a merry-go-round. “Round, round…” and dare I say it “…right round like a record, baby…” Though obviously cringing…

Clean Room Designers
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Clean Room Designers

PharmOut is a multi-disciplinary team of expert pharmaceutical architects and engineers, we are Australia’s leading pharmaceutical clean room designers, working for cosmetics manufacturers, non sterile and sterile pharmaceutical manufacturers around the world to provide Architecture and Engineering services. Manufacturers, often set a challenge for PharmOut’s process engineers to scale up or replicate processes. PharmOuts standard…

Pharmaceutical manufacturing facility design constraints
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Pharmaceutical manufacturing facility design constraints

In pharmaceutical manufacturing facility design constraints often exists between the limitations inherent in site constraints – the building “envelope”- and the pressure of intent to ‘open’ that envelope to maximise the floor area, in turn maximising ROI. One is never considered in isolation from the other, and the ideal solution is one that considers both…

Project and Construction Management
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Project and Construction Management

As an experienced and mostly client side pharmaceutical consultant, I’m often asked if a Project and Construction Management method is the best out of the following 3 project delivery methods, Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) / Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management (EPCM), Design and Construct (D&C), or lastly Project and Construction Management (PCM). The answer is, well it…