Selecting an industrial site
A method for helping the Project Owner take the right decision when selecting a site.
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Be able to answer the following questions:
- What do you need to know about the industrial project before choosing your site?
- What are the options and sites available? Why choose one area rather than another?
- Which site characteristics should be emphasized for the project? Conversely, which are the main site constraints liable to impact the project?
- Which criteria should be used when making comparisons between the target sites?
- How/where to collect information?
- Review and assessment of the project needs, on the basis of factors such as: building surface area, building activity type(s), process, planned operation, housed equipment, required power levels, etc.
- Definition of the main site analysis and selection criteria.
- Collection of the basic data about each target site.
- Summing-up and comparative analysis of the basic data: learning about the assets, weaknesses, opportunities and areas of vigilance of each site, based on precise criteria allowing comparisons and well-informed choices to be made.
- Urban studies
- Area location study
- Site and regulatory urban planning studies
- Comparative study
- Project Owner Assistance
- Data mapping
- Feasibility study
- Risk and corporate social responsibility study
We have been applying this method for nearly 20 years:
- For many internal project sponsors, but also with our customers and partners,
- With public or private project owners, whether or not they are specialised in the industrial sector,
- At different stages of product maturity: Opportunity analysis, planning, feasibility or design...
Here are a few examples where our teams applied these methods for surface areas ranging from a few to several tens of hectares:
- Setting up a biological analysis laboratory of 18,300 m2 avec 350 parking spaces in the biomedical analysis sector
- Relocation of the activities of the national Natural History museum (rehabilitation of listed legacy buildings and construction of a research center
- Setting up a hydro-metallurgical plant (consultancy, support, comparative study of 4 sites).
- Expertise in the ecosystem and understanding of your needs,
- Expertise in the methods for collecting information and conducting a multi-criterion analysis,
- Expertise in project tools and an intersectional project/urban planning approach,
- Building on more than 20 years of Project Owner Assistance experience and knowledge of public and private clients.
- What do you need to know about the industrial project before choosing your site?
