What is a Haz-Safe Building?

Haz-Safe Buildings are engineered for your special application parameters... space utilization, materials to be processed, and safety controls beyond standard sizes and model numbers. We design to your specific needs by working together with your engineers, architects, and safety professionals. Haz-Safe Buildings may be specified with any combination of fire, blast, sound and insulation rating. Factory Mutual (FM) has approved any size or shape. The largest single unit that can comfortably ship on a tractor/trailer has a maximum interior dimension of up to 14' wide x 72' long x 13' high. The greatest flexibility is the Haz-Safe Modular Building System™ whereby we ship separated units to be either set side-to-side or on top of each other and bolted together on site. Haz-Safe Buildings has delivered structures for every conceivable commercial, industry, and defense application.

Manufactured, not Construction

Haz-Safe's buildings are pre-engineered and pre-manufactured as complete whole shippable units or multiple modular units shipped separately and reassembled on site. Up to 100% of the building and pre-installed components and equipments can be completed and tested at the factory before shipping. "Conventional" brick and mortar construction is the traditional design-permit-bid-build-bid-commission and validated process. In pre-manufactured buildings' conceptual and basic design, project needs and processes requirements are thoroughly reviewed, with all detailed specifications, shop drawings, calculations, installation instructions and documentation developed using state-of-the-art tools that allow Haz-Safe to deliver mechanical, electrical and control systems to procurement for major components early in contract.

Parallel Activities at Site and Haz-Safe's Factory for Client's Small Scale Plant

Modularized Haz-Safe Buildings are built in a controlled work environment free from on-site revamps, unforeseen waste, large staging areas, material theft, interruption and delays due to extreme weather conditions and seasons. While (at the same time) the building is being fabricated in plant, on-site foundations, etc. are being made ready for the arrival of the pre-manufactured building.

Small Scale Multiple Purpose Plants

Start-up, testing, small batch and pilot facilities lend themselves to multiple, modular, small-scale process plants, which in turn have an inherent higher safety in redundancy when encompassing hazardous materials in the processes that include drugs, chemicals and foods. Second and third separate small scale plants will ensure continuity of supply in the event of a natural or man-made accident or terrorist attack and shifts in the economy and markets. They offer greater production flexibility for downtime for cleaning, maintenance and trial modifications for process improvements. Haz-Safe clients appreciate greater flexibility with batch size, segregation and refilling new technologies.

Modularity Meets Pharmaceutical / Chemical Industry Needs

Haz-Safe Buildings meet the needs of industries like pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic and petro-chemical companies for: A. multiple, modular customized manufacturing or process system plants that are, B. engineered, fabricated and tested before shipment, and C. providing a "speed to market" advantage. The faster the decision is made to build (the plant being on site and in production), the quicker to greater market share for our clients.

Easily Adaptable to Varying Demands

The flexibility of a modern modular Haz-Safe small plant system can be adapted to changing market needs. It expands step by step, in pace with changing requirements and can grow into a large factory. In very large client conventionally constructed facilities, there may be a small scale supporting chemical process involving flammable combustible materials that would be either inside or best be placed outside the main facility, yet connected with plumbing and material handling equipments. Click to look at typical Haz-Safe's Multiple Module and Three-Story Processing Plants. In addition, Haz-Safe Buildings are not set in concrete and are forced to stay at the location where originally installed. At any convenient time, it can easily be moved to the other side of the site, across the road, to another city, state, etc. Try to do that with a brick and mortar building!

Controlled Costs

Haz-Safe knows costs better because of more controlled shop conditions and supplies more accurate cost estimates earlier on to give greater confidence to decision-makers during project formulation and funding stages. In-shop workers achieve greater productivity and enjoy increased safety and improved stock control. Factory controlled procedures and elements of production line mentality result in more economical operations. Inside fabrication is inherently cleaner than on-site construction (greater dust generation, density of personnel, noise and vibration and accidental damage), which enhances end product clean-up. On-site construction attempts to achieve a wind and water tight envelope as quickly as possible to reduce sensitivity to adverse weather and a clean build. At the start, Haz-Safe factory achieves a wind and water tight environment. Each module, before leaving the factory, is shrink wrapped to maintain cleanliness. All of these factors, and more, make modular construction very cost competitive.

Schedules and Economics

Where new product introduction requires a "quick built" purpose-built, small multiple module Haz-Safe plant, true for pharmaceutical industries because they have need to maximize their drugs' patent protection period, it has been shown modular buildings can reduce construction time by 30-50% through parallel function programming. The construction time, in most cases being reduced, will result in up to 40% increase in the rate of return of up-front investment.

Validation and GMP Certification

Haz-Safe Buildings' quality in design, engineering, patented features and intense support and coordination with responsible architectural and engineering firms who are doing the validation and GMP compliance (when needed), guarantee that the client's desires and expectations are met. Testing of all components can be made to occur at Haz-Safe's plant and/or at the client's site prior to making sure everything meet agreed criteria. Clients/users are welcome at any time to participate in the design, fabrication and installation phases, step by step until final acceptance.