Industrial Architectural Engineering

Over the past 25 years W Design engineers and technical staff have provided designs for several complete plastic extrusion manufacturing plants, site planning for various major manufacturing or processing facilities, complete foundry facilities and various upgrade projects, countless shipping, receiving and warehouse facilities, various industrial infrastructure including cooling systems with cooling towers and mechanical chillers and air makeup and collection systems.  We have worked on small in plant projects including everything from product testing and quality control to major manufacturing processes.  We can assist your staff and engineers or provide a turnkey project and will adjust our service scope to meet your needs.

Recent Projects

Project:  Ag Valley Liquid Fertilizer and Ag Chemical Facility
Reference:  Ron Hunter, General Manager
Location:  Edison, Nebraska

Aerial photo of site

This project is a completely new liquid fertilizer and ag chemical retail and storage facility located in Edison, Nebraska.  It was designed to replace three smaller facilities and serve as a distribution center for other Ag Valley facilities in Southwest Nebraska.  It included a large containment dike for liquid fertilizer, a liquid fertilizer unit train rail unload, a new five bay loadout facility with overhead tanks, a chemical warehouse and an agronomy office.  The facility was let in multiple contracts to save both time and money.  Separate contracts included site grading, dike lining, tank construction, tank moving, building construction and plumbing and automation.

Project:  Central Valley Ag
Reference:  Gary Voichahoske, Manager
Location:  Monroe, Nebraska

Aerial photo of site

The project is a 22,400 sq. ft. liquid fertilizer warehouse terminal completed in 2006.  The entire project cost $870,000+.  The structural, mechanical, electrical and special systems were all designed in house by W Design Associates.

Design features include three fertilizer loadout bays, one that is accessible 24 hour a day.  The loadout bays are equipped with a steel overhead tank structure that assists in expeditious delivery of fertilizer and chemicals.  The building includes an elevated control room, finished break room and a heated storage room.  The warehouse size provides for maximum versatility for the demands of an ever changing agricultural industry.

Project:  Cargill Agronomy Self-Service Facility
Reference:
Location:  Ravenna, Nebraska

This project is a new fully automated self-service liquid fertilizer and ag chemical storage and loadout facility located east of Ravenna, Nebraska.

It was designed so a customer could place an order for fertilizer and quantity online, visit the site for loading, drive a truck into one of two loadout bays and load their equipment without the need for additional personnel to run the site.

It includes a large containment dike with one 2,500 ton, one 1,500 ton, four 100 ton tanks, a new two bay automated loadout building and customer building.

The project was let in separate contracts that included site grading, dike lining, tank construction, building construction, process plumbing and automation.

Previous Projects

Project:  U.S. Midwest Rail & Truck Terminal
Owner:  U.S. Midwest, Inc.
Location:  Holdrege, Nebraska

This facility is a wholesale bulk liquid fertilizer terminal.  Included was a ten car rail unload, fertilizer processing, 1,000,000 gal. of storage and a semi-truck load-in/load-out.

For the required liquid storage containment we successfully pursued an alternate design for an internal tank liner through the State of Nebraska.  Because of our efforts, many other companies are now using this technology.

Project:  Bulk Fertilizer & Ag Chemical Storage & Loadout Facility
Owner:  Frenchman Valley Farmers CO-OP
Location:  Imperial, Nebraska

This project involved the design and construction of a bulk liquid handling facility with capabilities of 50,000 tons per year.  Included was storage, containment, loadout structures, plumbing and full computer automation of the system.

Project:  Fabricated Metal Stress Relieving Furnace
Owner:  Ingersoll-Dresser Pumps
Location:  Hastings, Nebraska

This project was the remodeling of IDP's plant for the installation of a heat tempering furnace for pump metal fabrications made in the facility.  Though only a small project, it demonstrates our desire to serve clients for a wide variety of specialized needs.

Project:  New Extruder Building
Owner:  PW Pipe (formerly Eagle Plastics, Inc.)
Location:  Hastings, Nebraska

This 28,000 sq. ft. facility housed five plastic pipe extruder lines, a quality control laboratory and a water treatment facility.  W Design Associates was responsible for the facility layout as well as all structural, electrical & mechanical design.

Project:  Valmont Irrigation
Owner:  Valmont Irrigation
Location:  McCook, Nebraska

This project involved the site design and grading for a new 300,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant in McCook, NE.