Design-Build
Food Tech uses a unique design-build approach — from planning, to construction, to opening your facility.
We create detailed architectural and engineering plans, in-house, which we then submit for building permits. This process helps make the permitting stage more efficient and straight forward.
The plans and specifications are used to solicit multiple competitive bids at the subcontractor and supplier levels. Our construction personnel then coordinate and administer all work in the field. Food Tech remains on the project throughout the critical commissioning, qualification, and verification processes to help ensure a smooth start-up of your new facility.
We Are 100% Objective
We do not self-perform construction work or represent specific vendors, so that we can make the best materials and systems recommendations for your unique facility without bias or allegiance to predetermined contractors or manufacturers.
Our in-house design-build disciplines include:
Architectural Services
Food Tech’s architectural services are a part of our comprehensive preplanning, structural engineering, and design-build approach. With extensive expertise in designing food processing and cold storage facilities, our architectural team has the knowledge and skills to deliver a facility designed to your exacting needs and standards.
Our services include:
- Architectural design
- Adaptive reuse
- Code analysis
- Computerized modeling
- Due diligence studies and reports
- Facility surveys
- Food warehouse design
- Graphics and signage design
- Master planning
- Programming
- Record drawings
- Renderings
- Renovations and alterations
- Strategic facilities planning
- Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD
Engineering Services
In order to help increase productivity and maintain cost-effective operations, our engineering team focuses on your specific process needs, and only after we fully understand your operations do we begin to concentrate on the architectural design of the building.
For each plant we design, Food Tech’s engineering solutions cover equipment, adjacencies, flow, and overall layout identification as well as building materials and mechanical systems recommendations.
Our staff engineers are licensed professionals highly experienced in food-facility design. All documents are CAD generated. We offer all disciplines and services in-house, including:
- Process and packaging engineering
- Industrial engineering
- Architectural engineering
- Civil engineering
- Structural engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Fire protection design
- Electrical engineering
- Cold storage insulation design
- Contract administration
- Shop drawing review
- Field engineering
Construction Services
Honed through years of experience, we have developed an approach that consistently outperforms other food facility design and construction methods.
Our professional construction services provide for fast-track, single-source, total-responsibility, design-build project solutions.
Our offerings include:
- Bid analysis and contract administration
- Accounting and cost control
- Cost estimating
- Constructability reviews
- Construction supervision
- Equipment start-up assistance
- Field supervision and field engineering
- Schedule monitoring and control
- Budget monitoring and control
- iPlan and iPad field tools
- Permitting
- Quality assurance and quality control
- Professional engineering inspections and punch lists
- Procurement — subcontractor and equipment
- Safety program and enforcement
- Refrigeration and process equipment commissioning, qualification, and verification
- Value engineering
- Procore project management software
Our Single-Source Advantage
Food Tech utilizes a single-source construction approach designed to secure a lower overall price than many other construction delivery methods offered today. From the preparation of detailed engineering drawings and specifications, to gathering competitive bids for all trades, our approach promotes efficiency, quality, and cost-effective completion.
Benefits of single-source construction include:
- No need to hire and pay a general contractor
- No go-between or pyramiding of fees
- Work packages that are purchased directly through the suppliers and subcontractors via a competitive bid process
When you choose Food Tech, you receive a high-quality, streamlined design-build approach that saves you time and money. Reach out today.
