Experience & Capabilities

Industries Served:

• Bakery
• Beverage
• Confections
• Dairy Foods
• Meat/Poultry
• Salty Snacks
• Pharmaceutical
• Seasonings & Flavors

Engineering Services:

• Strategic Planning/Master Planning
• Programming/Feasibility Studies
• Environmental Assessment
• Site Selection Evaluation
• Architectural
• Building Mechanical
• Fire Protection
• Process Controls and Instrumentation
• Warehouse Layout and Design
• Preliminary Estimating/Planning/Scheduling

Construction Management Services:

• Project scoping, early pricing
• Development of specifications and planning concepts
• Cost estimates, bid evaluations, subcontractor selection
• Project scheduling, trade coordination, cost control
• Subcontractor administration and management
• General construction services
• Electrical, mechanical, refrigeration controls and process equipment installation supervision
• Startup assistance

Food Processing Capabilities:

• Facility design for USDA, FDA and AIB
• Sanitary design of ready to eat processing environments like pathogen control
• Product/Process development
• Quality control

Capabilities:

• Hyper-track construction
• Process and production optimization studies
• Process and packaging equipment selection, purchasing and installation
• Design and integration of plant automation systems using PLC’s and PC’s
• Specify, purchase and install process and refrigeration control systems
• Provide system check-out and start-up including wiring and I/O check-outs
• Production testing and final product commissioning
• Complete documentation: record drawings, O&M manuals
• Operation and Maintenance personnel training
• Determining project feasibility, costs, schedule, etc.
• Provide Guaranteed Maximum pricing
• Design/Construct freezer warehouses and ammonia systems
• Processing/Packaging feasibility studies
• Develop conceptual layout/pricing for alternate plant layouts
• Evaluate business plan of multi-location facilities
• Distribution studies and site analysis
• Value engineering to provide cost savings
• Design/Installation of: material handling, processing, freezing, and packaging systems

Why Design/Build?

• Improves overall cost control
• Encourages cost savings innovation through cost controlling
• Owners liability for cost creep, changes, and delays reduced
• Minimizes redesign associated with Plan/Spec work
• Reduced engineering costs
• Improved constructability and quality
• Eliminates risk of adversarial relationships
• Early cost determination
• Accelerated fast-track schedules
• Prevents redundant services
• Protects owner with fixed cost
• Eliminates gaps and overlaps
• Design not influenced by percentaged cost design fee
• Establish quality relationships
• Leverages owner’s facilities management staff