Food & Beverage
Delivering quality food and beverages to consumers requires modern manufacturing and packaging facilities that leverage innovation and efficiency. While you’re working on feeding the world, we’re here to plan, design and construct the facilities that make it happen. In fact, from site selection through commissioning and startup, we design food and beverage facilities with the cutting-edge technology required to automate key processes and boost overall production.
We can help you get products safely and quickly to consumers, as we have experience in multiple sectors, including beverage, dairy, food ingredients, frozen and prepared, pet food, protein, and chocolate and confectionary. Our integrated team can help you achieve your manufacturing needs, including packaging beverage brands up to 2,000 cans per minute, producing high-value dry ingredient products requiring accuracy down to the gram, and developing processes that result in industry-leading line rates.
Managing all project components, from early stages — pre-capital consulting, site selection, design, permitting and environmental remediation — to construction, utilities, water supply, wastewater, process and sanitary design and integration, packaging design, and cogeneration is what we do.
Our in-house capabilities enable us to execute projects with a truly integrated design-build approach where engineering and construction come together to form one team. As a result, we can better manage projects. 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 a single source of accountability to the design and construction of your project. It allows us to move at a faster pace as a unified team because we have all services in-house and can streamline processes. Our designers and construction professionals work side-by-side giving you greater flexibility in finding the right resources for your project with our ability to prioritize. Construction Industry Institute (CII) statistics indicate that only 5% of projects fall within +/- 10% of costs and schedule goals. The same number for Burns & McDonnell projects is over 95%.
- Design and engineering. Our in-house engineering team integrates with our designers and constructors. With more than 14,500 professionals working in more than 75 offices across the nation, we can — and have — leveraged the horsepower of our team to turn aggressive schedules into a success. Our BIM team and designers lead the industry in technology and innovation by modeling and coordinating all aspects of projects in 3D. We offer our clients dedicated professionals specializing in the following design and engineering disciplines: process, packaging, structural, wastewater, civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical and architectural.
- Controls and automation. When considering controls and automation, our range of services include network architecture, panel design, programming, operator interface design, I/O checkout and startup services, documentation, and controls design services. Our control system and integration group have extensive experience across multiple industries, combining technical proficiency and in-house process knowledge with effective project management to deliver safe, on-time and under-budget projects. Our philosophy is to operate as an extension of our clients’ staff, providing a single source of contact and responsibility for projects.
Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance
Food safety principles, high-quality standards, sustainable practices, waste-reducing measures and regulatory compliance issues must be understood throughout all stages of the design and construction of food and beverage facilities. Quality and safety assurance practices designed to identify and mitigate risks are integrated throughout the entire project process, as are sustainability practices, which help facilities run more efficiently. Our team has experience in the selection and integration of equipment that meets high-quality standards. We implement measures based on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and can help you achieve compliance while remaining focused on core product manufacturing.
Speed-to-Market Flexibility
As a food and beverage manufacturer, you strive to balance rapidly changing consumer trends with new product lines. Your processes must be fast and your operations flexible — able to convert production from one product to another quickly while maintaining profitability. From a single point of responsibility and integration to cost and time predictability, our design-build delivery method can help create a streamlined and seamless project experience.
With our understanding of supply chain management, safe construction, technology, manufacturing processes, material handling and controls and automation, we can optimize your operation and help you safely achieve your production goals.
