The judging panel has so far named six Category Award Winners in the 2014 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) programme. The winning projects were selected from 27 well-qualified entries and are located in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Each project has excelled in some aspect of facility design, production technology, sustainability or operational efficiency and the overall winner will be announced in October.
For example, transparency and flexibility were central themes throughout Boehringer Ingelheim’s Aseptic Area 5 and Combi Line project. The selection of this project as winner of the Equipment Innovation category was not for a single innovation, but for the combination of multiple innovations.
The use of transparency as a theme by the project team was evidenced by the innovative use of glass cleanroom walls, air returns, and technical space which allow visitors on the outside of the wall to observe the ongoing operation and for the operators on the inside of the wall to make use of exterior daylight and easily communicate with each other.
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