Food & Beverage
Modern manufacturing and packaging facilities empower delivery of quality food and beverages to consumers worldwide. Innovative technologies, efficient systems and engineer-procure-construct (EPC) project delivery enhance the safety and speed to market of products across sectors including beverage, dairy, food ingredient, frozen and prepared, pet food, protein, and chocolate and confectionary.
Need to Know: Critical Steps in Food & Beverage Manufacturing
The complex phases that lead to successful design and construction of new or expanded food and beverage manufacturing facilities demand a wide range of skills: pre-capital consulting, site selection, design, permitting, environmental remediation, construction, utilities, water supply, wastewater, process and sanitary design and integration, packaging design, cogeneration, and startup and commissioning.
The Burns & McDonnell Advantage: An Integrated EPC Team
Managing all project components — from the earliest stages — is what we do. While you work on feeding the world, we plan, design and construct the facilities that make it happen. We design food and beverage facilities with the cutting-edge technology required to automate key processes and boost overall production.
Our in-house capabilities enable us to execute projects with a truly integrated EPC/design-build approach where engineering and construction come together to form one team. As a result, we can better manage projects and help you achieve your production goals through our understanding of supply chain management, safe construction, technology, manufacturing processes, material handling, and controls and automation.
Speed to Market, Safely and Accurately
We help you get products to consumers safely and quickly. Our integrated team focuses on your specific manufacturing needs — whether it’s packaging beverage brands up to 2,000 cans per minute, producing high-value dry ingredient products requiring accuracy down to the gram, or developing processes that result in industry-leading line rates.
As you balance rapidly changing consumer trends with new product lines, your processes should be fast and your operations flexible — able to convert production from one product to another quickly while maintaining profitability. Our design-build delivery method helps create a streamlined and seamless project experience, from a single point of responsibility and integration to cost and time predictability.
In-House Design-Build Capabilities
To meet your operational needs, we have the capacity to oversee all types of intricate building and infrastructure development:
- Construction and site development. Our integrated design-build team brings single-source accountability. We move at a faster pace as a unified team with streamlined processes, giving you greater flexibility in finding the right resources to mirror your priorities.
- Design and engineering. Our in-house engineering team integrates with our designers and constructors. We leverage the horsepower of our professionals worldwide to turn aggressive schedules into success. Our building information modeling (BIM) team and designers lead the industry in technology and innovation by modeling all aspects of projects in 3D. We have dedicated professionals in process, packaging, structural, wastewater, civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical and architectural disciplines.
- Controls and automation. We can provide services in network architecture, panel design, programming, operator interface design, I/O checkout and startup, documentation, and controls design. Our control system and integration group has extensive experience across multiple industries, combining technical proficiency and in-house process knowledge with effective project management to deliver projects that are safe, on time and within budget.
Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance
Throughout all stages of design and construction of food and beverage facilities, it’s critical to understand and incorporate food-safety principles, high standards for food quality, sustainability practices, waste-reduction measures and issues regarding regulatory compliance. Our practices and processes identify and mitigate risks, as well as boost resilience and efficiency. Our experienced team selects and integrates equipment to meet and exceed quality standards. We implement measures based on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), helping you achieve and maintain compliance while remaining focused on core product manufacturing.
