Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology SIG

This SIG focuses on all cost engineering and total cost management principles pertaining to the pharmaceutical & biotechnology industry. Key subject areas include process economics, sensitivity and risk analysis, capital and operating cost estimating, project management, cost control, economic screening evaluations of research and development projects and cost and planning of the validation-process. The SIG's goals are to facilitate communication between AACE members working in the pharmaceutical & biotechnology industry, owner-, engineering- and supplier organizations, and promote the interchange of information resources, evaluation and estimating tools, and methodologies used within the industry.