Design brief: the first step in export processing plant design
The journey of building an export processing plant · Article 1/27 · Stage 1: The market decides the plant. See the full journey Many processing plant projects in Vietnam begin with a set of production-line quotations. The food factory design literature puts the first step somewhere else: a design brief that states clearly what the plant will make, which markets it will sell to, and where its raw material will come from and in what quantity. Without this brief, every drawing that follows may be technically correct yet aimed at the wrong target. This is the opening article of the journey of building an export processing plant. Key points The design brief is the source document for architects, engineers and…