Cold Storage & Food and Beverage
Specialty plants and warehouses, such as cold storage and food and beverage facilities, require an integrated and multi-faceted planning approach throughout design and construction. Rice Companies is well-versed in a variety of construction methods, and delivers attention-to-detail to each and every project.
Arctic Cold Storage Freezer Addition
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- Size: 80,000 SF
- Location: St. Cloud, MN
- Type: Design/ Build, New Construction, Remodelng
GNP Company Dock & Cooler Addition
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- Size: 35,000 SF
- Location: Cold Spring, MN
- Type: New Construction, Conventional Construction
GNP Company Hatchery
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- Size: 80,000 SF
- Location: Sauk Rapids, MN
- Type: Design/ Build, Retrofit of existing building, multiple additions and extensive remodeling
Trident Seafoods - Motley, MN
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- Size: 18,900 SF
- Location: Motley, MN
- Type: New -10deg Freezer Addition, Design/Build
Arctic Cold Storage
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- Size: 17,455 SF
- Location: St. Cloud, MN
- Type: Design/Build Addition
Rice Building Systems designed and built a 17,455 SF Freezer addition to Arctic Cold Storage in St. Cloud, MN. Rice was the design/builder for this project and also managed the direct vendors for Arctic. The expansion included structural steel, 6″ metal insulated wall panels, a specialized concrete floor system using shrinkage compensating concrete and trap rock, under floor frost protection and new LED light fixtures.
Appert’s Food Service
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- Size: 76,475 SF
- Location: St. Cloud, MN
- Type: Design/Build Addition
Rice Companies recently completed a 76,475 SF freezer, cooler, dry storage and maintenance addition to Appert’s Foodservice (now Sysco Foodservice). The design consisted of precast double tee walls and roof panels, high performance industrial floors using Shrinkage compensating concrete to minimize control joints, highly detailed roof and wall systems to eliminate air infiltration, and adding a fire protection system throughout the facility using a 350,000 gallon underground tank and onsite wells for water supply.
This expansion included complete coordination of the construction, refrigeration and racking systems. Energy savings were also introduced through new LED lighting in the cooler and freezer.
Bernick’s
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Cold Spring Brewing Company Distribution Center
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- Size: 401,280 SF
- Location: Cold Spring, MN
- Type: New Construction & Addition
In 2005, Cold Spring Brewery contracted Rice Companies to build a 96,000 square foot distribution center and warehouse. The next year, RCI completed an addition of 113,280 square feet and in 2007, built a second distribution center measuring 192,000 square feet.
The 10.6-acre site includes two warehouses with 20 loading docks and two drive-in doors and 139,336 square foot paved parking lot with 57 automobile stalls and 29 trailer stalls.
