How Integrated Lab Delivery Saves Time and Reduces Risk for Facilities Directors

In facilities management, time is rarely on your side, especially when it comes to lab upgrades, equipment installations, or cleanroom expansions. You're expected to deliver fully functional, compliant environments that meet R&D or production demands while juggling budgets, maintaining QA/QC standards, safety protocols, and vendor coordination.

Too often, what starts as a simple equipment order, like a new fume hood or exhaust scrubber, quickly spirals into a full-blown infrastructure project. MEP limitations, unanticipated layout changes, and a lack of coordination between equipment providers and contractors create delays, cost overruns, and unnecessary stress.

The Real Cost of Fragmentation

According to a ScienceDirect analysis of retrofit construction projects, up to 79% of project delays are due to uncoordinated scopes, vendor misalignment, and late-stage infrastructure surprises. For lab environments where airflow, containment, power supply, and water usage must all be tightly managed, this challenge compounds quickly.

Facilities Directors are often left holding the bag, coordinating between design teams, equipment reps, engineers, and construction crews to get a single project across the finish line.

The Alternative: One Team, One Plan

What if the equipment provider also brought the construction team with them? What if the hood installer could tell you up front whether your exhaust system was up to code and, if not, had the team in place to fix it?

That's the value behind an integrated delivery partnership between SCS Construction Management and Plastic Concepts.

Together, we provide:

• Full lab and cleanroom build-outs, renovations, and reconfigurations

• MEP coordination and upgrades, including HVAC, exhaust, process piping, and electrical

• Equipment design, fabrication, delivery, and installation

• Lab furnishing and process equipment systems engineered to elevate your laboratory and process manufacturing operations

• Permitting, scheduling, and jobsite management

And perhaps most importantly: we handle the entire project as one team.

Saving Time and Reducing Rework

A joint study from the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) found that design-build project delivery is 14% faster on average than traditional design-bid-build, and experiences 2–3% less cost escalation.

In facilities terms, this means:

• Less time chasing down vendors

• Fewer RFIs and change orders

• More transparent accountability for scope and performance

• More predictable occupancy or commissioning dates

A Day in the Life—Transformed

Let's say your R&D team requests a process tank install that requires new containment and plumbing. Usually, that would mean:

• Meeting with the equipment vendor

• Reviewing MEP drawings

• Coordinating with your internal or outsourced engineering team

• Identifying and bidding out contractors

• Managing timelines and safety inspections

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With our integrated model, your team makes one call. We:

• Assess your infrastructure

• Design or verify layouts

• Deliver and install the equipment

• Handle the fit-out construction and commissioning.

All while keeping you informed and minimizing operational disruption.

Built to Support Reality

We know that Facilities Managers are measured on uptime, safety, and stakeholder satisfaction. We understand that you're being asked to do more with fewer internal resources.

And with highly regulated environments like cleanrooms and laboratories, maintaining quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) standards across every stage of a project isn't optional—it's essential.

Our job is to make yours easier—by being proactive, technically competent, and communicative.

Whether you're upgrading one piece of equipment or undertaking a complete cleanroom renovation, we make sure it happens on schedule, on spec, and without the chaos.

Let's Simplify Your Next Lab Project

Coordinating multiple vendors for every lab upgrade is inefficient—and avoidable. There's a better way.

We're not just a construction team or an equipment supplier—we're your full lifecycle partner for lab and cleanroom delivery. One team. One timeline. One successful project.