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By: Perry E. Seeberger, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP | SEEBERGER Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n What do dessert and tilt-up construction have in common?\u00a0 Both begin with a vision, skillfully executed by a pastry chef or design architect with meticulous planning, ingredient selection, coordination, presentation, and then\u2026\u2026\u201cBAM!\u201d\u00a0 The latest creation is now ready for enjoyment.\u00a0 Rich Product Corporation, a frozen food manufacturing and distribution company, recently broke ground on a new cheesecake baking facility in Missouri City, Texas.\u00a0 True to its pioneering spirit, Rich\u2019s goal was to streamline their workflow for more efficient production of their delicious desserts.<\/p>\n Rich\u2019s, established in 1945, was the founder of the non-dairy segment of the frozen-food industry and to this day is the industry leader in product innovations with facilities around the globe. As a leading supplier to the global food service, in-store bakery and retail market places, Rich\u2019s posts annual sales exceeding $3.2 billion, operates 36 manufacturing facilities spanning six continents and employs more than 9,200 people across the world.<\/p>\n Considering the new facility\u2019s accelerated timeline and food safety guidelines, concrete tilt-up was the clear choice.\u00a0 To develop a design program, Rich\u2019s partnered with long time tilt-up veteran, Seeberger Architecture.\u00a0 While tilt-up design and construction is commonplace in the southeast Texas region, this new facility is far from business as usual.<\/p>\n Due to the linear sequence of its manufacturing process, the production facility is efficiently contained within a rectangular building volume, which is divided into eight main work areas: baking, mixing, ingredients, packaging, dry storage, washing, blast freezer and a freezer warehouse.\u00a0 Each work area varies in temperature ranging from over 110 degrees Fahrenheit to minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit.\u00a0 Varying thicknesses of white, metal clad insulated wall panels were installed throughout the facility to ensure climate control within each of the work areas.\u00a0 Extensive requirements and regulations were adhered to when designing the manufacturing process.\u00a0 USDA guidelines for food safety contributed to a major portion of the building floor slab being sloped to numerous drains throughout the facility.\u00a0 Freezer areas required a glycol radiant heat tubing system below the floor slab to protect the foundation and subgrade from freezing.<\/p>\n Due to the large areas of under-floor slab freeze protection and the multitude of sloped floor drains, the traditional construction method of casting wall panels on the slab was not an option.\u00a0 The contractor, Cadence McShane Corporation<\/a>, utilized casting beds along the building pad\u2019s perimeter to allow panel forming, concrete placement and erection to occur simultaneously with the extensive under-slab plumbing, sloped floor slab work and freezer slab floor construction.\u00a0 Vice President, Dan Delforge of Cadence McShane commented, \u201cThe use of over 90,000 sq. ft. of casting beds on this project was critical in getting the building structure and walls up within three months. Ten weeks after the project began, the tilt wall panels were already being set in place even as the last of the floor slab placement was continuing.\u201d The speed of tilt-up construction allowed the shell of the facility to be erected and enclosed on a very compressed timeline and permitted the subcontractors to begin interior construction of the insulated wall panels and installation of complex mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems.<\/p>\n When it was determined more cold storage was needed, the clear height of the freezer warehouse portion of the building was raised to allow taller racking and more capacity.\u00a0 Two interior tilt-up wall panels structurally isolate the freezer warehouse from the adjacent functions, essentially creating a box within a box.\u00a0 The interior concrete wall panels act as wind bracing for the production building, freeing up the floor plan from the usual steel X-bracing.<\/p>\n Panels on the east elevation are reinforced to allow openings to be cut for future expansion.\u00a0 Screening of roof-mounted equipment was a major concern of the Missouri City Planning and Zoning reviewer.\u00a0 To alleviate this concern, tilt-up wall panels were extended vertically to create a parapet, hiding the vast refrigeration units and racks of refrigerant piping located throughout the roof area.<\/p>\n With completion of the building construction approaching, the end product of our designed facility is anxiously awaited, much like the pastry chef peeking into the oven, to see if his dessert is progressing as envisioned.<\/p>\n So, when faced with a difficult decision about dessert, you can\u2019t go wrong selecting \u201ctilt wall\u201d or \u201ccheesecake!\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"RICH01\"](\"http:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RICH01.jpg\")
\nThe two-story office\/warehouse tilt-up facility is under construction on a 20-acre tract of land in the Lakeview Business Park, the site of a former golf course in Missouri City, Texas.\u00a0 The new facility\u2019s location proved to be unique due to its triangular shape, limited street frontage and abundant supply of used golf balls discovered during site grading and excavation.<\/p>\n![\"RICH04\"](\"http:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RICH04.jpg\")
\nOffice and training areas are enclosed in a separate, two-story building volume, allowing individual design expression, while maintaining a cohesive overall facility design.\u00a0 The office building is a compositional convergence of concrete, glass and metal features, appearing to be recessed within parallel concrete planes.\u00a0 Red aluminum elements were used to disrupt the panel rhythm and reinforce the Rich\u2019s branding.\u00a0 A dynamic pattern of vertical reveals evoke movement within the office exterior walls.\u00a0 This same rhythm is continued within the curtain wall system and storefront windows.\u00a0 With limited street view frontage, a corrugated perforated metal panel screen was utilized to augment the office fa\u00e7ade and shade the two-story glass entry lobby.\u00a0 \u201cMany factors influenced the exterior design, including the Missouri City Planning and Zoning requirements, the Lakeview Business Park guidelines and Rich\u2019s corporate identity,\u201d states project designer Jorge Romero, of Seeberger Architecture.<\/p>\nPor: Perry E. Seeberger, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP | SEEBERGER Architecture \u00bfQu\u00e9 tienen en com\u00fan los postres y la construcci\u00f3n con paneles prefabricados? Ambos comienzan con una visi\u00f3n, ejecutada con maestr\u00eda por un pastelero o un arquitecto de dise\u00f1o con Leer m\u00e1s\u2026<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[231,230],"class_list":{"0":"post-3132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry","8":"category-member_news","9":"tag-cadence-mcshane","10":"tag-seeberger-architecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7264,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/7264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}