Editor's Note: This is first article in a series that will look at the importance of understanding the components of building construction and design. This column is designed to assist firefighters ...

The strategic administration of production processes and personnel to maximize output, minimize errors and continually enhance product quality come under the general banner of "operations management." ...

As an architect, I have visited many police stations during my career as a design professional. I have walked through many stations guided by dedicated law enforcement professionals who work ...

Vetter's FOYA award-winning facility is an example of a flexible pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical modular facility design that allows expansion of space without affecting existing operations.

Digital tools, such as building information modeling (BIM) software, improves efficiency for optimizing pharmaceutical facility design. Technology is changing more than just healthcare’s latest ...

The physical structure of Armstrong Pumps – a producer of HVAC, plumbing and fire safety systems – is a patchwork of 12 facilities, gradually amassed since 1967. The resulting environment stifled ...

In the world of containment facility design, where safety protocols and engineering performance standards ultimately trump all other programmatic considerations, government agencies and research ...

Testing is at the heart of the R&D process, which makes the test facilities used to develop and validate new products a vital component when producing innovative, effective, and safe products.