Materials Used:
Corporate Offices –Wood framed structure with concrete tile roofing on conventional footings.

Processing Plant – Metal building with concrete tilt-up walls.

Project Highlights:
Ruiz Foods is a nationally well-known food processing organization located in Dinuba, California. This multi-faceted project included the Corporate Offices, a processing plant, warehouse, -10 ° freezers, cold storage, packaging mezzanines, and truck docks.

Materials Used:
The Danish Creamery Process Tower is a steel braced frame structure which supports around 2 million pounds of intricate equipment. Tube steel members were utilized at the steel frames in order to meet USDA dust requirements. Each floor was uniquely composed of horizontal tube steel trusses designed to accommodate the equipment at that floor. The insulated roof and wall panels are mounted on the interior of the structure. Grade beams and caissons make up the foundation in order to prevent disruption of the existing building foundation systems adjacent to the new structure.

Project Highlights:
One of the more difficult aspects of this project was the close proximity of the existing process tower on one side and circa 1915 original creamery buildings on the other side. One entire bearing line of the old building was removed along with portions of its roof to make room for the new tower. The process building is over 120-feet in height making it the equivalent of a 10-story commercial structure but far more complicated due to the enormous equipment loads suspended within it.

Materials Used:
The concentrate facility structures are metal buildings with steel frame lateral elements, metal siding, and metal roof panels. The structures are founded upon heavy equipment foundation pads and caisson piers at the lateral resisting elements.

Project Highlights:
The concentrate facility was constructed in various phases and includes over 1.3 million gallons of juice storage. San Joaquin Valley Concentrate is one of the nation’s largest juice concentrate facilities. In addition to juice storage, the project includes cold storage facilities, extractor facilities, and a laboratory. Brooks Ransom Associates was also responsible for control of on-site floodwater.

Materials Used:
The milk processing tower is a metal braced frame structure with Alucobond aluminum composite panel roofing. Poured in place concrete was utilized at elevated equipment decks. Various other production buildings and warehouses were constructed using concrete tilt-up wall panels and metal panel roofing.

Project Highlights:
This expansion project houses over 3 million pounds of equipment suspended within its walls. The expansion also included warehouses, cold storage, butter production, rail dock and truck dock facilities. The process tower is over 120-feet in height. Our firm also designed the original Dairymen’s process building in Los Banos, California and Phase I of this facility in Turlock.