Business View Magazine | March 2020

45 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 INTEGRATED PROJECT SERV I CES , LLC solvers for clients. Today, IPS remains at the forefront of new technologies and innovations in the industry. The company’s success has been well-earned through knowledge leadership, listening to the needs and challenges of clients, and providing integrated project and business solutions to help them create and manufacture life-impacting products. Business View Magazine recently spoke with Mark Butler, President & Managing Director of the Americas division of Integrated Project Services, about the company’s innovative solutions approach and his insights into the future of IPS and the ever-evolving biotech and life science market. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation. BVM: Can you share the background history on Integrated Project Services? Butler: “IPS is now in its 31st year of operation and is an integrated engineering construction validation company focused in the pharmaceutical life science market. The firm was founded by two pharmaceutical executives who created a business plan to disrupt the capital execution delivery in the life science space. Back when the company was founded in the ‘80s, in the life science pharmaceutical marketplace you tended to have an architect, an engineer, a construction manager, a validation company, and a host of contractor vendors providing equipment to the capital expansion project. “Our founders noticed that at the end of projects, there wasn’t one go-to person. The supply chain was fragmented in such a way that you would have a lot of finger pointing on responsibilities. So, what they envisioned was an integrated firm that could build and validate the complex facilities for the life science market. IPS has now taken a journey to about 1,400 people. We do around $7.5 billion in total turnover projects and have 22 offices worldwide.” IPS Services Engineering Critical Utilities Mechanical HVAC Central Utility