Drees & Sommer Switzerland 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 and execution 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 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 Switzerland 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.

As a professional ‘temporary project department’, we take on a large portion of the jobs normally performed by the client in construction projects in the chemicals industry, leaving them free to take care of their core business. We take an integrated, holistic and solution-oriented approach. We ensure cost-effectiveness, reliable overall costs and realistic schedule adherence at the level of quality ordered.

In Life Sciences projects, commissioning costs generally account for between eight and 15 percent of total investment. Systematic commissioning management by Drees & Sommer Switzerland 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 construction site management for life sciences projects: The parallel activities of different disciplines entail a high level of complexity for a functioning construction site and for the subsequent operation of the building. Lean Site Management (LSM) structures all building, process and plant planning work to precise deadlines using the Lean method. The focus here is on the targeted reduction of buffer and idle times.

Companies in the life sciences industry have a substantial stock of buildings and plant. It often makes more sense to optimize existing laboratories and manufacturing and logistics buildings rather than build new ones, not only for ecological reasons but above all to save time. Drees & Sommer’s industry experts give you full support in dealing with this complex challenge.

Construction sites in the life sciences sector with complex infrastructure place extraordinary demands on the construction process. The stringent safety standards make it essential to integrate construction management and comprehensive construction logistics early during the later phases of planning. Only in this way can it be ensured that all necessary measures and requirements for sensitive buildings can be planned and correctly implemented.