Alba Campus

Description

Quintiles, now part of global healthcare company IQVIA, is a life-science testing plant in Livingston.

BACKGROUND
Quintiles offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics and human ingenuity to push healthcare forward. An ongoing client for several years, we’ve been involved in everything from laboratory expansions to biorepository.

CHALLENGES
Our original task was a laboratory expansion. Transitioning office, leisure and gym space into a scientific and technology wing. In such an environment, everything is driven by legislation and strict regulations. Working with the architect, this was a highly collaborative project to ensure best practice. Client stakeholders were involved at every stage, too. After our initial success, infrastructure projects followed. As well as work on the site’s biorepository needs, where samples are held for up to 12 years. Cryogenics storage is a vital part of this.

SOLUTIONS
Accepted industry best practice was challenged at the start as being outmoded. We believed greater performance could be delivered using half the previous energy. To reassure the client, we undertook a feasibility study that showed what efficiencies could be achieved. The laboratory expansion was designed to ACDP regulations Bio-containment level 2. Biorepository success required careful collaboration with the Institute of Occupational Medicine to undertake hazard studies to avoid obvious risks. Including disaster scenarios. Solutions included constant monitoring and emergency ventilation