Key Design Features at Reinharts’ New DC
ESI designed and built the newly acquired Reinhart Facility owned now by Performance Food Group (PFG). This project video includes key facility design details incorporated specifically to address and achieve the owners pain points and goals. This new 246,000 square …
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Speculative Cold Storage is Hot
Growing demand for refrigerated cold storage space, along with increasing investor interest and better understanding of how to build these facilities, is spurring speculative cold storage development. Today, retrofitting traditional warehouses may be an advantageous way to capitalize on the …
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Ben Walters, transitions back to Regional Manager
We are excited to share Ben Walters is joins ESI’s Sales Team. Collectively, Ben has worked with ESI for 13 years and is transitioning from the Preconstruction Team. His wealth of knowledge in business development and estimation of food facility …
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Design-Build Solutions for the Food Industry
(Hartland, Wis. – April 13, 2021) ESI Group USA celebrates three decades providing design-build solutions to the food industry. Are you looking for a different project experience? ESI’s sole focus has been and will continue to be designing and constructing …
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Automation Systems Promote Safety And Improved Performance
Food processing plants, warehouses, and distribution centers see the value in robotics and automation and are expected to invest $14.3 billion by 2025 in automation and technology. Driving this spend is the need to address a shrinking labor force, accommodate …
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Coca Cola Is Expanding Production: The Only Place To Go Is Up
Reyes Holdings, L.L.C., the parent company of Great Lakes Coca Cola, is expanding production and needs additional finished product storage at its existing distribution center in Alsip, Illinois. The only place to add storage space was on a parcel of …
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Site work in progress at Sacramento Jobsite
David Weingart, ESI’s onsite Construction Manager, leads a team of specialty contractors as site work in Sacramento begins for a 300,000+ square foot Greenfield Food Distribution Facility for US Foods. Baker-Williams is surveying the site for utilities and building foundations. …
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Design Improves Supply Chains for Processors & Distributors
The COVID-19 pandemic created bottlenecks and backlogs in protein processing supply chains. As processors look to meet demand in 2021, possibly on the other side of the pandemic, they have an opportunity to re-imagine their business models and make necessary …
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Award of Merit for CraftMark Bakery Project
CraftMark Bakeries is a national industrial bakery that produces frozen bread dough for restaurants and bakeries. The existing facility is a 225,000-square-foot building that was originally built in 2014. Last year, Gaylor Electric along with ESI Design Services and several …
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Home for Life® receives $6500 from ESI and Valco Data
Each year during the holiday season ESI Group, ESI’s IT firm, Valco Data, and all staff select a charity to raise money for. ESI kicked off voting in November with a penny war fundraising competition! We’re pleased to share that …
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Ben E. Keith’s New Award-Winning Foodservice Distribution Center
Photo by Erick Richter / www.CustomAerialImages.com With more than a century-long legacy in the food and beverage distribution industry, Ben E. Keith is known as the leader in delivering premium, high-quality products. Headquartered in Fort Worth, TX, the company’s food …
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ESI Group joins Ben E. Keith at Alabama Groundbreaking
On October 16th, Ben E. Keith Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new foodservice distribution center in New Brockton, Alabama. The new facility will position the company to expand its distribution coverage in the Southeast by adding up to …
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Managing Food Facility Project Costs
Whether building a greenfield project or renovating an existing food facility, construction costs can skyrocket. While some extra expenses can be completely out of a business’ control, there are many aspects of a design-build project to be aware of that …
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How Frick’s Quality Meats Controlled Costs
Frick’s Quality Meats is a fifth-generation family-owned meat processing company known for its artisan-style, value-added products, such as its hickory smoked ham cured with real cane sugar. The company recently worked with ESI Group USA to add additional space to …
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Milwaukee Business Journal survey lists ESI Design 17th
ESI Design Services ranks along with 28 others and 3 who reported 6 registered architects in their Milwaukee area office. ESI Design Services is honored to have this success recognized in the Milwaukee Business Journals Largest Milwaukee-Area Architectural Firms List. …
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Seasoned employee makes a change, ESI promotes from within
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michele Loppnow, ESI Group USA, mloppnow@esigroupusa.com 262.369.3535 A long-term employee makes a change, ESI promotes from within Hartland, Wis. – ESI Group USA, a nationally accredited design-build engineering and construction management firm specializing in the food industry, …
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ESI recognized with statewide construction award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michele Loppnow, ESI Group USA, mloppnow@esigroupusa.com 262.369.3535 ESI Group recognized with statewide construction award Hartland, Wis. – ESI Group USA, a nationally accredited design-build engineering and construction management firm specializing in the food industry, was awarded a Silver …
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ESI receives Platinum For Zero Recordable Accidents
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michele Loppnow, ESI Group USA mloppnow@esigroupusa.com 262.369.3535 ESI receives Platinum For Zero Recordable Accidents Hartland, WI, (February 16, 2018) –The Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin (ABC) has given ESI Constructors, Inc. its’ 2017 Platinum Award of Honor. …
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ESI Group’s Tim Nguyen elected as IACSC Chairman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michele Loppnow, ESI Group USA mloppnow@esigroupusa.com 262.369.3535 ESI Group’s Tim Nguyen elected as IACSC Chairman After serving on the IACSC executive board for the past six years Tim Nguyen will serve as Chairman of the International Association of …
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