China

Continental Expansion Storehouse

June 2012 ($5.0M)
Tianjin China

The project is an expansion of an existing facility in Tianjin and will primarily consist of warehouse space for the storage of high quality automotive electrical parts. The building will incorporate inspection rooms, storehouses and office areas.
Cockram was engaged by Continental to provide an EPCM consulting service which involved the URS preparation and review of the design documentation prepared by a local Chinese Design Institute. Our service continued on into a full construction management delivery where CPL engineers were provided to the site to supervise and manage all site activities, including Safety, Quality, Time and Cost. The project was completed in January 2012 and achieved all client objectives.

AstraZeneca Broad Market Manufacturing Site Project

December 2013 ($230.0M)
Taizhou China

AstraZeneca, one of the world’s leading Pharma companies, is planning to establish a new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Jiangsu Province, China. The proposed manufacturing facility is named China Broad Market Manufacturing Site, which is located in China Medical City, Taizhou, also known as “The Medical City” due to the rapid development of medical research centers. The land size of approximately 92,000m2 and gross build up area of approximately 51,000m2 including two main production areas:
• Sterile dry powder filling for injectable Cephalosporin products
• Oral Solid Dosage products
The project consists of two phases, Phase 1 and Phase 2. Both phases are considered as one project and will be built now with different fit-out contents.
As the leading CM Company for Major Pharma projects in China, Cockram Projects is contracted to provide Procurement and Construction Management Services. The services will involve a team of approx 40 CM professionals for a 2 year period. Cockram’s past experience over the past 20 years in China on similar projects was instrumental in AZ’s decision to select Cockram over other international Engineering firms.

Boehringer Ingelheim Panda Project

December 2013 ($50.0M)
Shanghai China

The project is the enlargement of the production and packaging capacity of Boehringer Ingelheim’s (BI) existing Shanghai site, to fulfill the requirements of the Chinese market and other regional markets. The total constructed new building area is approximately 17,000m2 for this current phase due for completion in 2013. Cockram’s role is the Procurement and Construction Management Company responsible for the execution and delivery.

The scope of the project includes Four new major buildings & two smaller buildings including an Ampoule & Solids packaging building (APP), a High-Bay Warehouse (HBW), a Centre of Competence (CoC), a New Canteen (CAN), a New hazardous goods store building (HGS), and a New south gate house (SGH). Also included are modifications for a new shipping & receiving area, a new QA/QC Lab, alterations to site infrastructure (e.g. new 4000KVa substation) and Alterations to roads & parking.

Due to the project being constructed on a fully operational pharmaceutical manufacturing site, extensive planning and great care has been required to ensure facility operations will not be impacted. Heavy construction will occur beside the existing facility and the team will not only deal with many constructability issues, but also need to make adequate consideration of the many GMP and regulatory issues to ensure the daily site operations are not impacted.

Baxter Healthcare Expansion Project

March 2011 (US$40.0M)
Guangzhou – China

The facility will produce sterile renal products in soft plastic bags and the project scope includes a full development of 2 new filling lines and the construction of a multi storey manufacturing building around 20,000 sqm with associated facility and utility systems and a new additional 2nd floor office adjacent. The facility will have full sprinkler protection and will be required to meet both local Fire Code and Factory Mutual standards requirement.

Sanofi Minsheng Relocation Project

December 2011 (US$30.0M)
Hangzhou – China

This Relocation Project is a joint venture between Hangzhou Minsheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Sanofi-Aventis.

The current facility specializes in manufacturing OTC items such as vitamins and health products, predominantly coated and non-coated tablets, capsules and soft gelatin capsules, including packing of the products in bottles or blister packaging. The existing plant will be under ongoing production during the relocation phase.  Major equipment will be relocated and started up in the new facility so as not to affect the supply to market.

Sanofi-Aventis Lotus Relocation Project

January 2012 (US$50.0M)
Hangzhou China

Located within the Rankin Park Campus adjacent to the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, the 16,000 m²building consists of 2 five storey wings (east & west) of solid elements linked together by a two storey elevated glass entry pod. This project is a green-field facility in Hangzhou for Sanofi-Aventis designed to replace the current production facility. The site has a total area of 49,587m2 of which the new plant will be approximately 30,000m2.  The new facility will comprise areas including manufacturing, distribution centre, warehouse, solvent store, energy centre, administration, laboratory and amenities.

Sanofi-Aventis Lotus Relocation Project

January 2012 (US$50.0M)
Hangzhou – China

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Novo Nordisk Filling Plant Project

September 2010 (US$300.0M)

Located on a Greenfield site of approximately 98,000 sqm, the project is split into 2 phases, The completed facility will allow Novo Nordisk to meet the rapidly expanding demand for insulin products in China. This filling site will comprise formulation, filling, inspection and packaging of Penfills, and some packaging of FlexPen (pre-filled insulin pens), in addition to vial packaging.

Dow Chemicals R & D Centre

May 2009 (US$130.0M)
Shanghai – China

Three buildings comprising Dow’s 88,000m2 R&D Centre. The larger buildings are the R&D building and the Administration building and the smallest is the Central Utilities Building (CUB).   The R&D and Administration buildings include undercover car park, 64 light laboratories and 1 heavy laboratory, offices, a 700 seat restaurant, Gymnasium, Presidents suite and Badminton court.
The building has an open area through the center with a glass atrium roofprotecting the space.
The CUB building houses the High Voltage and Low Voltage Electrical rooms, Boiler room, Ice chiller tank, Chillers and Fire protection room and holding tank etc.

McCain Foods French Fry Manufacturing Facility

December 2005 (US$12.0M)
Harbin – China

Design and construction of McCain’s Greenfield French fry processing facility in Harbin Heilongjiang Province, capable of producing 7.5 tonnes of French Fries per hour.

Scholle Packaging Facility Fitout

November 2003 (US$0.5M)
Suzhou China

Scholle Industries appointed Cockram to undertake the general construction services for its leased facility. The main scope of Cockram’s services included: general construction services, local project construction permits and approvals, quality controls, program controls, construction management and safety controls, project completion and as-built documentation.