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Consulting - Syngenta
The Brief:
- Reduce future facilities cost for Syngenta’s new chemistry building as part of the new R&D center in Stein (Switzerland) by investigating its economical life expectancy and lifecycle costs
Challenges:
- Complexity of research site (8,120 square meters floor area, with more than 40 laboratories)
- The planning phase was nearly completed and basic construction had already begun
- Calculating operational costs based on building plans by drawing on relevant expertise and experience of similar research facilities
- Wide range and sophistication of prospective facilities services
- Complex project management process with many different stakeholders involved (e.g. architects, technical specialists, HSE manager etc.)
Solutions:
- Reviewed all available building construction data (architect’s & design plan etc.)
- Analyzed impact of planned building construction on future facility utilization and prospective maintenance and operational costs
- recommends precise measures to optimize construction
- evaluates additional construction costs compared to facilities savings
- highlights importance of recommended adaptations
- presented and discussed recommendations with stakeholders
Results:
- Enhanced transparency of lifecycle costs
- Proposals for optimized lifecycle costs and to enable net savings for future facilities services
- Proposals for minimizing deficiencies in design and construction
- Proposal for improved building performance
