New Oral Solid Dosage Facility
Consumer Products Client
To support a longtime client’s expansion into Latin America, SSOE was selected to design a new oral solid dose manufacturing facility in Mexico City following their acquisition of several product lines from a global healthcare company. The project involved a three-story, 50,000 SF building on a congested, active campus in the heart of the city.
The project presented unique challenges. The site’s location required construction to be carefully coordinated to avoid disrupting operations and city traffic. Building materials were sized for narrow streets and delivered overnight to minimize interference with local logistics and plant activities. SSOE’s team also needed to create space for the new facility, which involved relocating employee and truck parking, expanding the existing Quality Control Laboratory, converting a maintenance building into a GMP climate-controlled warehouse, and enlarging the parking garage—all while keeping operations running smoothly.
Technical complexity was another defining feature. SSOE increased purified water generation capacity and added a new system loop to meet the facility’s advanced requirements. The team designed a process waste treatment system to meter effluent and protect the city’s sewer service, and upgraded aging data, fire, and security systems. Recognizing the need for future growth, SSOE developed a master plan to allow production to double within the same footprint. Because raw material sampling and finished goods warehousing remained in the existing facility, a climate-controlled connector corridor was designed linking the new and existing buildings, serving both as a material flow path and a utility pipe bridge.
Throughout the project, SSOE leveraged Lean practices and an Integrated Project Delivery approach, supported by real-time design collaboration and a full-time engineering resource on-site. These strategies enabled the team to solve problems quickly, minimize disruption, and deliver a state-of-the-art facility that met the client’s immediate and future needs.
