Building Pharmaceutical Plants that Meet the Latest Demands
for Sophistication and Versatility
Pharmaceutical Plant Engineering
When the revised Pharmaceutical Affairs
Law takes effect in April 2005, the focus of approvals
will shift from manufacturing to sales, and it will
become possible for companies to sell pharmaceuticals
even if they do not own a manufacturing facility. Consequently,
there is pressure to improve operational efficiency
by, for example, spinning off plants or offering or
using outsourced manufacturing services. And this in
turn is driving demand for facilities that are more
flexible than today's plants in terms of quality, cost,
and products that can be turned out.
Taisei, in addition to providing construction proposals
covering details such as air conditioning system designs
that allow precise humidity control and site usage plans
emphasizing future growth, brings together its 30-plus
years of engineering experience in fields such as production,
distribution, and information systems to build high-quality
pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that balance
building and production functions in an efficient, rational
manner.
Fujiyakuhin Co., Ltd.’s Toyama No. 2 Factory, Toyama Pref., Japan
At a Time When Facility Construction
Applying the Latest Technologies is in Demand
uper Advanced Research Center for Flat Panel Display
Taisei created the construction plan for
the Super Advanced Research Center for Flat Panel Display
(SARF), the worldfs most advanced research facility
for the development at a moderate cost manufacturing
technologies for next-generation large-screen flat panel
displays.
Construction of this facility had to be performed with
high quality, on a short construction schedule, and
at low cost. It, therefore, involved a broad range of
engineering technologies spanning all project phases
from planning to actual construction. These technologies
also had to address all areas of research facility construction,
including structures, building equipment, utilities
for research equipment, and automation systems.
The building housing this research facility is a two-story
reinforced concrete structure with a footprint of 5,600m
2 and total floor space of 9,800m 2 . Within it, an
extremely advanced research environment has been created
to perform research and development on liquid crystal
display manufacturing technologies radically different
from those used to date. This environment thoroughly
excludes chemical contaminants, micro vibrations, and
other factors that can negatively impact research and
manufacturing. Additionally, as an environmentally conscious
facility, energy saving and recycling technologies have
been adopted in SARF.
Super Advanced Research Center for Flat Panel Display (SARW)
