Manufacturing Industry

Tapping the team synergy.(Eli Lilly's Product Development Laboratories, Indianapolis)

Building Design & Construction, August, 1998

Eli Lilly cut costs and delivery time by providing incentives and encouraging early input from designers and contractors Pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly and Co. set ambitious budget and project delivery goals when it decided to consolidate research and pilot plant operations on its Indianapolis campus.

To accomplish these objectives, the company first turned to an underutilized resource -- a building constructed in 1920 as an auto assembly plant that Lilly had been using for warehousing and manufacturing operations since purchasing it in 1946. The other element of Lilly's project strategy was to restructure the building team's traditional patterns of interaction by encouraging early input from designers and contractors and giving...

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