Analysis of the factors affecting the efficient design of pharma industrial complexes in Uganda

Abstract

An industrial facility should be designed with the future direction of the industry in consideration thus the expansion and future requirements of the facility are important and so the synergy between the operator’s experience with architecture, equipment with engineering is key for operation. The GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) is well known as one of the guidelines for basic planning or designing pharmaceutical manufacturing complexes and is purposed to provide requirements for manufacturing quality products and particularly for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals including facilities, operatives’ management and control as GMP complies with the resolution of WHO and international tendency.

GMP provides that pharma facilities shall be designed mainly with two issues considered that’s consideration for layout and consideration for materials and construction thereof to establish the satisfactory layout plan. The GMP Regulations specify what a particular requirement is (i.e., what is to be controlled), not how that requirement is to be achieved.

It’s observed that the legacy basic guidelines focus more on production line and safety of drugs but does not detail user experience and their comfort yet it’s evident for the shift of human activity from traditional methods of manufacturing products for increasingly specialized and evolving robotic and IT systems and this change is more seen in industrial production.

This revolution brings in new challenges for industrial architecture concerning user experience with new and modified requirements for workplace and its architecture.