CMC Biologics – now AGC Biologics – in Søborg, Denmark, were faced with a challenge: the transformation of an underground storage room into a sterile clean room. However, there was little room, and daylight was a legal requirement for future work at the premises. LBP Engineering took on the challenge and the extensive coordination involved.

“For this assignment, we chose to bring on a small, but focused team. One that could work out of our client’s offices five days a week, in order to be close at hand and ready to advise. So, we set up shop in a temporary container building. Our goal was to build a flexible organisation with just the right key qualifications represented. In a case such as this we have to carefully listen to our client and implement their particular needs, not just our assumptions about what they might want. You only really get there by being close to each other, physically, I mean,” explains LBP project manager, Allan Christensen.

The former storage room, totaling 175 square meters, was completely remodeled into a sterile facility for production of pharmaceuticals. This required new sewerage, precise coordination with the daily users of the building and also installation of skylights to let the sunlight in.

One final challenge of the assignment was how to properly ventilate the basement, in part to mitigate contamination risks in the new production area. In the end, Allan Christensen and his team chose to install a new ventilation system on the roof of the building, four stories above, and then lead all the wiring through the existing shafts and also through the canteen into the basement. A very tangible solution to an otherwise intangible challenge.