Life Sciences · New ConstructionIn progress · 2026

Pharmaceutical Fill-Finish Facility

Patients are waiting on medicines this plant will make. Validation has to finish on time.

LocationResearch Triangle, NC

ClientConfidential

LocationResearch Triangle, NC

SectorLife Sciences

Value$690M

Size400,000 sq ft

DeliveryEPCM

Duration36 months

StatusTarget 2026

Why it mattered

In advanced technology and life sciences, the building is an instrument. Utilities, cleanrooms and validation must be right the first time, because the equipment and products that follow are worth far more than the structure.

The challenge

A pharmaceutical company is building a sterile fill-finish facility to produce critical medicines.

Commissioning, qualification and validation will take nearly as long as construction, and regulatory inspection dates are fixed. A schedule that treats validation as an afterthought would be wrong from day one.

Our role

Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Commissioning & Startup Scheduling Project Controls Management Forecasting

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartJul 2023

Duration36 months

Target finishJul 2026

Progress—

Utilities firstOwn the interfacesCoordinate dailyQualify and validate

How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04

PHASE 01Utilities first

Utility systems sequenced to be commissioned before tool or process installation begins.

PHASE 02Own the interfaces

Hundreds of contractor interfaces held as dated, owned milestones in one integrated schedule.

PHASE 03Coordinate daily

Look-ahead planning that aligns thousands of daily workers in constrained spaces.

PHASE 04Qualify and validate

Commissioning, qualification and validation built into the schedule from the first baseline.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01CQV on the same path as construction

Commissioning, qualification and validation sit in the master schedule with real durations, not as a block at the end.

Result 02Inspection-ready by design

Regulatory inspection readiness is held as a hard milestone, with float to it reported every period.

Result 03Patients set the critical path

Supply commitments to patients define what is critical, and the schedule is built backward from them.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Pharmaceutical

2.01.03Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)

Integrated Master Schedules that bind design, procurement, construction and commissioning into one traceable program view, from board summary to field activity.

2.01.15Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

System-based commissioning and startup schedules that carry facilities from mechanical completion to reliable operation without the familiar last-mile slip.

2.02.01Project Controls Management

Schedule, cost, change, risk and reporting designed, staffed and led by RichardBarkley, running to a disciplined monthly cycle from the first period.

2.02.08Forecasting

Risk-informed schedule and cost forecasts, expressed as P50 and P80 ranges, that give executives an honest view of the finish date and final cost.

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