Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management (EPCM)
Drees & Sommer Life Sciences experts use EPCM to bring together all planning, consulting and management services. At the same time, they use modern lean methods for the planning of building and plant projects. This systematically reduces interfaces, simplifies coordination of the entire project, and helps achieve optimal coordination and structure, even in the case of super fast track projects.
How important is EPCM to you?
- Are you planning a complex building and plant project with a tight schedule?
- Are you facing a high level of management and coordination effort with only limited resources?
- Do you have to restructure a facility while it is in full operation?
- Is it particularly important to ensure the execution quality of the project?
- Do you want to reduce interfaces and responsibilities for liability reasons.
- Do you want cost and schedule certainty at the earliest possible point in the project?
How we approach EPCM
Drees & Sommer specialists undertake goal-oriented management of the entire EPCM project team and create transparency in all planning and realization phases of the project. Independent and neutral planning and consulting mean that the principal has maximum flexibility with regard to decisions. This extends from defining the planning scope and processes to the award of contracts. The EPCM contract partner uses Integrated Construction Management to monitor and control execution, and is responsible for commissioning, including qualification.
The benefits for you
- Excellent project management competence
- Lean method competence during structured setupand during execution of all planning and realization processes
- Concepts with an appropriate balance between cost-efficiency and sustainability
- Specialist knowledge and innovative tools for the coordination of planning and realization processes
- Full transparency of planning content, planning progress, and realization
- Fair, cooperative and open interaction with each other
- Professional handling of project disruptions thanks to management and specialist competence for analysis, resolution and avoidance
- Integrated Construction Management with Lean Site Management (LSM) undertakes holistic management and control of the construction site – right through until successful completion of the commissioning, acceptance, handover + qualification process
More Solutions for Life Sciences and Pharma sector
Pharmaceutical technology, medical technology and medical biotechnology are all very distinct areas of Life Sciences. Our products and solutions help companies in this sector reliably achieve success in their projects. Despite all the different processes and outcomes, all our products feature a combination of economical, digital, sustainable and innovative components.
In Life Sciences projects, commissioning costs generally account for between eight and 15 percent of total investment. Systematic commissioning management by Drees & Sommer leads to a significant reduction in both the cost and effort required.As an option, our experts also can use special 3C Management® (Construction, Commissioning and Compliance) to integrate qualification.
Lean site management for Life Sciences projects: The parallel activities of different disciplines result in high complexity both of the operational construction site and later of the operation of the building. Lean Site Management (LSM) precisely schedules all building, process and plant planning work using the LEAN method. The focus is on a achieving a systematic reduction of buffer and idle times.
Digitization is already bringing about rapid changes to our living and work environments. For construction projects in the Life Sciences segment, with its stringent safety, speed and flexibility requirements, two approaches are particularly promising: Modular Construction and Building Information Modeling (BIM). For Life Sciences projects, Drees & Sommer links these two methods to form a powerful digital duo that allows, amongst other things, faster, more reliable and more cost-effective realization of production and laboratory buildings.