The need to focus on the future function of labs, rather than generic labs was clear..
‘This made the delivery of the building faster,’ says Wood.‘It made the quality of the building higher and the accuracy of the building higher, and it made this efficiency repeatable on future projects with relative ease.’ Notably, he says, the process also enabled ‘an understanding of the potential scale and efficiency of the building much earlier than normally possible.’.
Maswiken recognises that the building’s sense of spaciousness comes from the fact that the hospital benefits from such a ‘well thought out design.’ ‘We’re very lucky with our building and the set up,’ he says.‘You don’t feel claustrophobic at all.’.Goel says that from his perspective it’s all very well organised.
‘The radiology is very close by.Physiotherapy’s really close by.
So it’s easy to get hold of people.’.
Of the building’s general layout, Kirsty Cobden comments that usefully, ‘Everything goes round in a circle.This decision is rightly theirs – based as it may be on future flexibility, their assessment of market direction or, not unusually, on commercial considerations that they may not want to share with us.
But it is important that we can demonstrate that the analysis leading to this point is robust and that we have properly considered every angle.This is also a benefit when there are any late entrants to the discussion, to assure them that the analysis and enquiry have been thorough and rigorous.. Case study: an extensive pharmaceutical manufacturing site.
In one recent project, we worked on the quality assurance (QA) elements of our client’s operation.QA covered four distinct areas of manufacturing, both primary and secondary, and small and large module, split across two campuses and 13 separate testing laboratories, each conducting variety of tests and other QA processes It is not hard to imagine the complexity that engendered.
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