Grand designs: A future-proof pharma manufacturing facility

Published: 8-Oct-2015
Design & Build HVAC

Building the UK’s largest cleanroom on a live, high care site for a global manufacturer and supplier of drug delivery devices was no small feat. Paul Morley, Operations Director, and Lizzie Stratton, Contracts Manager at Chalcroft, explain how it was delivered

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Chalcroft faced a considerable challenge when constructing a new cleanroom on a live, confined, high care site for Bespak Europe, a global leader in the manufacture and supply of drug delivery devices. Additionally, this was not just any new cleanroom – at 5,180m2, it was set to become the UK’s largest.

All certified cleanrooms need to be validated by an independent external party against ISO 14644-1 (the international standard for Airborne Particulate Cleanliness Classes in Cleanrooms and Clean Zones). As a consequence, validation must be considered at all stages of the design and build process, particularly when it comes to ‘future-proofing’ or allowing for further development.

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