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4 strategies of successful project execution

A lean approach to project execution relies on four steps for success.

Keys to accelerating your COVID-19 drug campaign

As SARS-CoV-2 moves fast through our global population, the pharmaceutical industry faces tremendous pressure to move even faster.

Pave your own road: 8 tips for women in construction

Women in Construction Week highlights the valuable and growing role women play in the construction industry. In connection with that effort, I want to help more women enter the field and succeed. I’ve found a fulfilling career path in construction and hope my experience can pave the way for other women to do the same.

Construction manager vs. general contractor: a clear difference

Is it better to hire a construction manager or general contractor?

Using digital tools to optimize facility design

Building information modeling software improves efficiency. Technology, like BIM, is changing more than just healthcare’s latest therapeutic modalities and pharmaceutical advances. It’s also disrupting the design and implementation of the facilities that create them.

Reducing waste with lean delivery in facility design and construction

Applying a lean delivery approach to the design and construction of new facilities can reduce waste, lower costs and improve speed to market.

NextGen Now: Delivering tomorrow’s facilities today

If cell and gene therapy products are to successfully reach patients and deliver transformative cures, then the industry will need more facilities capable of manufacturing them.

Using target value design: a short introduction

Target value design presents a solution to an age-old problem: can project cost, schedule and quality goals all be achieved?

Cutting Costs on Flooring Could Cost You Big!

Cutting cost on your food processing flooring could cost you big!

It’s underfoot, sure, but the coatings on your food processing flooring should be top of mind.

Technology: making it work in the field

While we all have access to today’s great technology, it is truly only worth what we make of it. Without proper implementation, each device is only a different sized paperweight. CRB utilizes iPhones, iPads, numerous applications and VDC kiosks in the field in order to drastically improve collaboration, installation and safety during the construction processes. This gives our construction engineers, superintendents and trade contractors the resources necessary to stay on-site.

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Building insights for highly regulated facilities