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.

Digitization is already bringing about rapid changes to our living and work environment. 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 to a powerful digital pair that allows, amongst other things, faster, more reliable and more cost-effective realization of production and laboratory buildings.

In our Project Management Office (PMO) for the life sciences industry, we work in integrated teams alongside the client’s project managers, and handle the overall project management, project steering and reporting functions for the project as a whole. Using agile planning processes, we also manage the planning phase, keeping a constant eye on the relationship between costs, time schedules and deadlines, and quality levels. We are responsible for the interaction between the procurement team, the designers and the contractors, as well as all relevant third parties, on behalf of the project lead through all the phases of the project.

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 use special 3C Management® (Construction, Commissioning and Compliance) to integrate qualification.

Companies in the Life Sciences sector frequently have extensive portfolios of buildings and facilities. For ecological reasons and to save valuable production time, they often find it preferable to modernize their existing laboratories, production and logistics buildings – rather than build new ones. The sector experts at Drees & Sommer can support you with this complex challenge, all the way from decision-making and conceptual design to planning and execution.