Following a successful design/build project in Brighton,
Michigan, Gordon Food Service was looking to add a new
distribution center in the southeast, so GFS executives
came to Tippmann Group again, expecting another successful
project.
Due
to a tight time frame related to their new business opportunity,
GFS chose to purchase an existing warehouse building shell,
as opposed to starting a new construction project from
the ground up. Tippmann’s design team then went
to work on the facility in Greenville, South Carolina.
The
building shell had no docks and was originally built with
concrete walls, which would not be conducive to holding
temperature in a building needing freezer space. Tippmann
Group removed the concrete walls and replaced them with
insulated wall panels and added an ammonia refrigeration
system to the building.
A
new dock also had to be added to the facility, and it
was designed with an open floorplan, which provides direct
access from the refrigerated dock to the warehouse’s
cooler portion of the building.
This
is one of two GFS projects that were being built simultaneously
by Tippmann Group. The other is a new distribution center
in Ocala, Florida.
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