The project involved a 28,000-square-foot footprint addition to the existing Building 2 at the St. Louis ThermoFisher plant, which is a continuation of the Phase 1 Expansion completed in 2019. This expanded the Building 2 footprint to the east which included two new processing suites – Suites 10 and 11, including production clean rooms, support clean rooms, mechanical and utility areas, new dock areas, and other supporting functions. The utility infrastructure expansion included chillers, cooling towers, WFI generation, storage, and distribution, clean steam generation, and compressed air generation.
Murphy developed an initial cost opinion by taking the design criteria provided by McGrath and CRB which included general arrangement drawings, point of use sketches, and material specifications, by gap filling the missing information by gaining an understanding of the intent of the system design, the project factors, and the decisions that were influencing the design. During the design-assist process Murphy provided constructibility reviews and real time cost estimating to help complete the design documents, and Murphy took over the virtual design effort at 60% CD for final routing and coordination of all utilities, ultimately generating the 100% CDs.
Murphy led the BIM construction coordination process, which started with the underground utility systems. Murphy started construction immediately after coordination signoff in October of 2022 with the installation of the underground systems. Murphy was able to maintain this underground construction schedule by identifying an issue with the materials specified for the process waste system do to supply chain issues, and working with CRB to determine an acceptable alternate material and manufacturer.
This project was on a fast track schedule with above ground installation starting in May of 2022, and completed May of 2023.
