Execution:
The facility consists of a structural steel frame clad with insulated metal panels.

Beyond the challenges faced with a very aggressive construction schedule necessary to meet Sofina’s production needs, and the close timing required to ensure precise coordination with the process equipment arrivals, CSL worked with the consultant to overcome various unforeseen conditions discovered during the selective demolition process. The interior includes new insulated metal panel walls and ceilings and polyurethane floors through most of the facility. 

Very close coordination and attention to detail was necessary to ensure that process trenches and buried utilities were accurately coordinated with the process equipment.

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Execution:

CSL was engaged to assist both Tower Engineering and Surati during the tender period, providing input and suggestions to reduce potential extras after contract award.

As renovations were completed and production space made available, the equipment was decommissioned on Friday, and relocated, reconnected, and tested ready for production the following Monday morning at 8:00 a.m.

Achieving such an aggressive schedule meant working closely and in full collaboration with all parties including trade contractors to execute this complex, time-sensitive task. CSL developed a detailed phasing plan allowing Surati equipment to be relocated over a period of three weekends.

Large sections of boarding were erected and negatively pressurized to prevent dust and debris from contaminating Surati’s “Clean Zone.”

It was also critical to provide Surati staff with the access they required to efficiently produce and ship their product while keeping all trade contractors and Surati staff safe.

CSL delivered the renovated facility, meeting all manufacturing protocols demanded within the food industry, and most important, meeting the client's timeline.

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Elevators for the case-ready process were going to punch through the existing second-floor slab where the cafeteria was located, reducing its size by sixty percent. This resulted in constructing an addition that would house the new cafeteria (with kitchen facilities) as well as offices for 60 people, plant washrooms, maintenance space, security, and CIFA space.

To be ready to accept case-ready equipment, the grind space needed to be built and relocated over a short ten-week time frame. This represented millions of dollars worth of renovations that included decommissioning the freezer and taking down all the freezer racking, removing the concrete slab, relocating glycol lines, providing new drainage piping, providing underground power and data systems to the process, recasting the slab, developing a new walkable ceiling structure to house equipment and services that would feed the new grind lines, provide new stainless steel platforms, freezer panel walls, and HVAC/CO₂/Electrical/Lighting/H₂/Hydraulic and Compressed Air Services.

We were successful in achieving all milestone dates along with meeting the objectives of the case ready lines and the new addition for offices and welfare addition.

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