Food & Beverage · New ConstructionCompleted 2021

Craft Beverage Production Campus

Brewhouse, packaging and distribution on one new campus, and one summer to be ready for.

LocationFort Worth, TX

ClientConfidential

LocationFort Worth, TX

SectorFood & Beverage

Value$120M

Size260,000 sq ft

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration20 months

StatusCompleted 2021

Why it mattered

Food and beverage plants live by market windows: peak season, retail launches, distribution contracts. A schedule that misses the window does not lose weeks; it loses the year.

The challenge

A growing beverage company consolidated brewing, packaging and distribution onto a single new campus.

Brewhouse equipment shipped from Europe, and packaging lines from three separate vendors had to commission in sequence. The owner ran a lean team and wanted an independent voice on schedule and change.

Our role

Owner's Representative Commissioning & Startup Scheduling Change Management

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartNov 2019

Duration20 months

HandoverJul 2021

Progress—

Protect productionPut equipment on the pathIntegrate the vendorsValidate and ramp

How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04

PHASE 01Protect production

Shutdowns placed in low-demand periods, with every outage planned to the hour.

PHASE 02Put equipment on the path

Process equipment tracked from factory slot to setting on its foundation.

PHASE 03Integrate the vendors

Line vendors, automation and building trades working to one critical path.

PHASE 04Validate and ramp

Line trials, food-safety validation and ramp-up scheduled as real work with real durations.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01Summer demand met

Production ramped up ahead of the peak season.

Result 02Three vendors, one sequence

Every packaging vendor worked to a single commissioning schedule with clear handoffs.

Result 03The owner's eyes on the job

We acted as owner's representative on schedule and change, testing every request for time before it was granted.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Food & Beverage

2.03.01Owner's Representative

Senior owner's representation that protects budget, schedule and quality from procurement through design, construction and occupancy.

2.01.15Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

System-based commissioning and startup schedules that carry facilities from mechanical completion to reliable operation without the familiar last-mile slip.

2.02.07Change Management

Change control that captures, prices, schedules and records every change to scope, time and cost before it erodes contingency or entitlement.

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