Automated Cold Storage Distribution Center
An automated freezer distribution center, scheduled around slab cure, insulated panels and a controlled pull-down to temperature.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Midwest & Mountain
- Market
- Food & Beverage
- Capital value
- $210M
- Size
- 450,000 SF freezer
- Delivery
- Design-Build
- Duration
- 24 months
- Completed
- 2025
What was at stake.
A freezer building fails if its floor is rushed: underfloor heating, vapor barrier and slab cure set the pace, and the pull-down to temperature takes weeks. The automation vendor needed a finished, cold building on a fixed date to start installation. Those constraints were not in the original schedule.
How we controlled it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers did on this project.
Cure and pull-down
Slab cure, panel installation and the staged temperature pull-down were scheduled with real durations and hold points.
Automation interface
Rack, crane and conveyor installation were tied to room temperature milestones, so the vendor knew exactly when each area was ready.
Weekly look-aheads
Two-week look-aheads coordinated refrigeration, panel and automation crews working in the same areas.
Cost forecasting
Monthly EAC forecasts tracked contingency drawdown against the remaining risk register.
The result.
You cannot accelerate concrete cure or a freezer pull-down. So we scheduled them first and built everything else around them.
Project controls manager, AdenTurton
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