In today’s competitive landscape, all companies have one thing in common: the need to achieve their long-term vision within budget constraints. Our food industry experts act as an extension of your staff, crafting solutions that meet your facility and operational goals while keeping your projects on time and within budget. We prioritize learning production requirements and develop actionable strategies that comply with industry regulations. Our extensive experience with process teams in diverse markets enables us to “right size” facilities and provide appropriate infrastructure and utility service. Overall, we deliver food solutions that keep up with the rapidly changing industry while striving to create solutions that fit within project and construction restraints, along with meeting sanitary design requirements. When you work with TKDA, you get a trustworthy partner with results that surpass your expectations.

Facilities

Our engineers, architects, and interior designers design new facilities and major renovations for agriculture, food, and beverage clients throughout the United States. We deliver high-quality results that extend beyond completing new facilities, renovations, expansions, or restoration projects, creating spaces for people to connect with technology, tools, and systems they need to work productively. Our expertise spans control rooms, laboratories, maintenance facilities, parking ramps, warehouse and distribution centers, clean rooms, office and workplace areas, vehicle storage facilities, roof replacements, locker rooms, cafeterias, and breakrooms.

Water Treatment

As water becomes an increasingly critical resource, effective water management is growing more essential for our clients’ facilities. Our experts combine process water experience with an extensive knowledge of advanced treatment processes and environmental regulations. For years, we have supported industries in the areas of water storage, industrial wastewater treatment, permitting coordination, and process water needs to empower companies. Our goal is to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of water systems while minimizing the impact on the environment and local communities.

Studies, Planning, and Modeling

Strategic studies, planning, and modeling help companies plan for the future of their physical spaces and gain insights into how building systems operate to identify potential improvement areas. Our engineers and architects help clients save money, improve efficiencies, and enhance overall operations through planning, assessments, and modeling. We provide the information our clients need to make informed decisions about the safety, functionality, and life-cycle costs of their structures, mechanical, and electrical systems. Our professionally licensed staff works with clients on all aspects of their project, including document research and analysis, control point networks, photogrammetric calculations, GPS and Robotic Total Station data collection, custom 2D and 3D AutoCAD and ArcGIS mapping, and electronic and hard copy document production.

Civil, Site, and Infrastructure

Our team provides civil engineering and landscape architecture services tailored to a wide range of food industry needs, producing cohesive and unified projects. From site master planning to utility distribution design, our civil engineers have the design capabilities and project management talents to make facilities and sites function effectively. We tackle site evaluations, traffic studies/site circulation, stormwater management, water utility distribution and rehabilitation, pavement management, and industrial rail spur design. TKDA also assists clients with providing accurate surveying and documentation on pre-construction site surveys, construction layout design, and post-construction as-built surveys.

Balance of Plant

Our dedicated agriculture, food, and beverage team offers a comprehensive range of balance of plant services designed to foster optimal performance and safety across various systems. By integrating our team with mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers and specialists, we help clients develop efficient and safe operations. Our mechanical and electrical services include plumbing, compressed and specialty gas system design, high-energy piping system and stress analysis, HVAC design, lower flammability limit design, ventilation and dust control, comprehensive fire protection solutions, standby and normal power distribution systems, interior and exterior lighting, hazardous classification area identification, arc flash programs to promote safety and compliance, control systems solutions, fire alarm systems, building access control systems/site security, and phone/data/network systems. Our structural analysis and design capabilities create robust and reliable infrastructure ranging from equipment mezzanines/catwalks through product storage tank farms and refrigerated storage and warehouse solutions.

Sustainability

We adopt a comprehensive approach to sustainability that advances energy efficiency, waste reduction, and carbon impact across the buildings and infrastructure we design while considering employee and community wellness and the sustained financial health of our stakeholders. When needed, our projects incorporate active and passive solar strategies, daylighting and daylighting controls, geothermal, and solar-thermal heating. We also utilize photovoltaic arrays, fresh-air intake preheating, water reuse, vegetative roofs, efficient building orientation strategies, and high-performance envelope, roof, and glazing design. At TKDA, we continually explore and research the ever-changing options that allow for energy savings and sustainable designs that reflect our clients’ values of environmental stewardship. TKDA has accredited LEED professionals to support the design of new construction and existing building renovations to achieve any desired level of LEED registration.

Process Design and Integration

Our integrated team excels in delivering design services for our food industry clients. We offer comprehensive process system design solutions, including hazardous vapor systems, dust collection systems, mitigation systems, process P&ID development, process line integration, steam and water high pressure piping systems, mills and dryer towers, and thermal oxidizers. We also have expertise in food processing, instrumentation and control systems, developing process control narratives and process controls communication and network architecture designs to help our clients improve daily operations. 

Central Plant and Energy

We specialize in delivering multi-disciplined and comprehensive central plant and energy solutions. Our expertise includes managing programs for electric fleet vehicle charging stations and arc flash, streamlining permitting coordination, optimizing digestors, and designing innovative control rooms. By leveraging this diverse set of services, we support agriculture, food, and beverage clients in achieving operational efficiency and advancing their energy objectives.

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