Manufacturing / Pharmaceuticals

Quinn Glass, Ince, Cheshire

Project: Quinn Glass Integrated Plant, Filling Hall and Automated Warehouse

Client : Quinn Group

Contract Value Range: +£200 Mill

Project & Services: Based on the site of the old Ince Power Station, with remediation underground services & tunnels and the building of the 1st UK Bottle manufacture, filling and storage single site environment. The plant consists of 2 furnaces, 21 production lines an extensive filling hall and an automated warehouse of 13 acres holding 282,000 pallets.

Plan Ahead consultants provided all the onsite Planning & Project Controls for the in house Quinn construction team on what was a very fast track build against extremely tight timescales.

Lactose / Inhaler Projects, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Project: Transition of an MDI with Counter from the R&D stage through to full production

Client: GlaxoSmithKline

Contract Value Range: +£77 Million

Project & Services: Transition of the world’s first Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) with Counter from the Research and Development (R&D) stage through to full production for the global market. This truly multinational project was undertaken in 7 locations, in 5 countries.

The Plan Ahead consultant developed the Research and Development ‘handover’ programme, and establishing project controls measures to aid the Production Development stage to make a smooth transition into full production at factories in France and the USA.

Secondary Manufacturing Plant, Algeria

Project: Boudouaou Secondary Manufacturing Facility

Client: GlaxoSmithKline (International)

Contract Value Range: +£15 Million

Project & Services: Located in Boudouaou, Algeria the project being the construction of the 1st GSK manufacturing and packaging facility in Algeria.

A Plan Ahead consultant developed the construction and commissioning programmes in cooperation with a local architectural practice. They were also tasked with providing a monthly project monitoring and reporting service encompassing design, procurement and construction along with mentoring of Algerian personnel from the architectural practice in aspects of project controls.

Our Projects

Quinn Glass, Ince, Cheshire
Lactose / Inhaler Projects, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Secondary Manufacturing Plant, Algeria
Secondary Manufacturing Plant, Suzhou, China
Migration of a R&D Project for a MDI Counter into Global Production, UK / France / USA

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Senior Programme Manager National Power Distribution

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Managing QS, Tier 1 Contractor

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Director of Planning, Tier 1 Contractor

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Construction Director, Multi National Contractor

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