In response to customer demands to deliver projects more quickly and cheaply, design firms increasingly are looking at modular design and construction to streamline the construction process. Many clients put a premium on tight schedules where a product’s speed to market is critical. Few customers place more emphasis on this issue than the pharmaceutical industry.

As a result, the pharmaceutical industry has long embraced modular construction. In response, IPS-Integrated Project Services LLC (No. 124), one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical plant engineers, has partnered with G-Con Manufacturing Inc., a College Station, Texas-based manufacturer of prefabricated cleanroom systems, to create iCON. The design and construction process rapidly deploys modular and mobile pharmaceutical research and production facilities.