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The Tradeline BLOG is an online exchange of quick bits of breaking information, intelligent “briefs”, promising technologies, emerging trends, HOT concepts “overheard” at Tradeline conferences, and some rare, practical stats that will help you keep tuned to the capital projects and facility management profession.
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An efficient solution.
Public Health labs are going to be tasked to develop facilities for testing unknown biological, chemical, and radiological samples. Modular lab units provide a straightforward programmatic, technology, and financial way to meet this requirement. - From Tr...
| | 4.30.08
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Guidelines and trends.
Do not take the BMBL as a design document. It establishes the goals, not how to get there. Make sure to document your rationales for system decisions including questions that were asked, the discussed consequences of decisions, and control issues so that ...
| | 4.29.08
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A vital component of up-front planning.
A detailed risk and threat assessment is a critical part of the up-front facility planning process. The outcome of the risk and threat assessment can significantly drive up project costs, so perform such an assessment early to learn what you are up agains...
| | 4.28.08
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Isolators and cubicles can provide cost-effective containment.
One very appropriate value engineering question to ask is whether or not all the BSL-3 space being asked for is necessary. A 10% reduction in BSL-3 space can free up a lot of dollars for other project features. By reducing the amount of biocontained vivar...
| | 4.27.08
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The necessity of staff and stakeholder input.
To make sure you are planning the right facility, get all stakeholders to sign off on a design-intent document and pass that document along at each project stage -- all the way to the user at the end. If you don’t have your occupational health and s...
| | 4.26.08
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A strategy for budget management.
Condition-based maintenance (CBM) methods and technology can greatly reduce maintenance budgets for biocontainment facilities, animal facilities, and other high-tech spaces. Properly run CBM programs may also obviate the need for costly shutdowns, testing...
| | 4.25.08
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Tips for success.
For biocontainment commissioning, simulate your biggest potential spill or release event to make sure your biggest incident won’t be a disaster. For BSL2 and above, it is recommended that facilities be re-commissioned every year. If you have factory...
| | 4.24.08
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Integration is key.
Emergency management needs to be an integrated system. Identify it as a functional requirement. Also, be aware that the biosafety official responsible for facility operations may not be the right person to manage safety outside or adjacent to your biocont...
| | 4.23.08
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The benefits of a steam coil heating system.
For effluent decontamination, steam coil heating systems experience less corrosion and mechanical failure. The consequences of a failure of an effluent decontamination systems can be very serious, so effluent decon systems should be designed with a 3X saf...
| | 4.22.08
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Sharing practices creates operational excellence.
Develop a peer review process involving outside organizations that have biocontainment operations to make sure you’ve thought of everything, to discover efficient, better ways to do things, and to do a SWIFT (Structured What-If Technique) analysis. ...
| | 4.21.08
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Optimize equipment performance first.
The average commercial building should be able to easily reduce energy consumption by 30%. Don’t charge off on renewable energy initiatives before you first optimize your energy usage. You will save big on energy costs without the investment of adde...
| | 4.15.08
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A shift in focus.
Instead of spending a lot of time benchmarking, spend your time and money collecting and implementing best practices. A possible downside to using benchmarking to assure yourself that your operation is OK is that that may prevent you from looking for area...
| | 4.13.08
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Budget strategies for lean processes.
To find processes that are in need of streamlining, train the people who are doing the spend to build accurate, detailed budgets from the ground (zero) up. Another strategy is to do departmental and functional budget variance reviews in a group setting. T...
| | 4.12.08
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Lean strategies for maintenance planning.
The opinion of maintenance management experts is that unnecessary preventative maintenance can actually cause maintenance problems. “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,” has become a legitimate lean management concept. Preventative m...
| | 4.11.08
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Pfizer's innovative single-form methodology.
Flying in the face of processes that employ complex software systems to streamline the management of large numbers of small and medium-sized capital projects, Pfizer has streamlined this process and virtually eliminated legal disputes with a simple paper-...
| | 4.10.08
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Create integration with team project delivery contracts.
The newly emerging innovation in capital project delivery is having all the project parties (owner, architect, CM, contractor) sign a single integrated project delivery agreement or contract and share in the risk and incentive awards. To get (buy) a contr...
| | 4.9.08
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Putting dollar values on project outcomes.
The next step in lean thinking about capital projects will involve putting dollar values on capital project outcomes and making output value part of the Total Cost of Ownership decision-making process. The leaders for change in the area of capital project...
| | 4.8.08
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Metrics for decision making.
Use Genentech’s capital-project complexity scorecard to help a diverse core project team to understand and make decisions on project features and document a clear metric on the goal of the project.
- From Tradeline’s Lean Management Processes...
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