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Food
Services of America (FSA) is the largest wholesale food distributor
in Alaska. Roger Hickel Contracting constructed FSA's 120,000
square foot Anchorage distribution facility in two phases in 1995
and 1999. When FSA outgrew their existing facility in Fairbanks,
they asked RHC for a proposal to design and construct a new one.
FSA every day sends multiple 40' trailers of food to Fairbanks
from their Anchorage distribution center. Each tractor making
trips between the two places is hauling two such 40' trailers
- a practice known as "hauling doubles". In Fairbanks,
pallets of food are transloaded from most of the 40' trailers
into smaller local delivery trucks. The remaining 40' trailers
are hauled intact as far as Prudhoe Bay, one at a time. For the
new Fairbanks facility, FSA needed a building containing a cross
dock area for the transloading process, some offices, and, due
to Fairbanks' extreme winter conditions, an enclosed heated area
in which to store the local delivery trucks. Outside the building,
FSA needed space to accommodate tractors hauling doubles (they
are around 100' long bumper-to-bumper) as well as space to store
a dozen trailers at a time.
To meet
FSA's needs, RHC has hired an architect, civil and structural
engineers, and subcontractors responsible for designing and
building the mechanical, sprinkler, and electrical systems.
RHC is coordinating all the design disciplines as well as being
the project's general contractor. The building is 13,500 square
feet overall with 5,000 SF devoted to a 52" high cross-dock
for transloading, 5,400 SF for truck storage, and 3,100 SF for
offices and toilet rooms. A poured-in-place concrete foundation
supports a pre-engineered steel building frame clad with insulated
metal panels. Roofing is single-ply membrane over rigid insulation
fastened to metal decking. Interior insulated walls separate
the cross-dock from the truck storage area from the offices
because different temperatures are maintained in each of the
three spaces. Natural gas fired radiant heaters are used in
the cross dock. The truck storage area has both exhaust and
makeup air systems to handle vehicle exhaust fumes.
FSA awarded
RHC a contract in December, 2004. RHC will submit plans to the
City of Fairbanks for a building permit in late March, 2005.
On-site work is to begin in early May, 2005 and be completed
by November 1, 2005.
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