May 17, 2019

Grand Award Construction
Private Building $50 Million to $100 million

Photo provided by Fisher Construction Group

NewCold Advanced Logistics Center was built on a footprint of 242,000 square feet and has a volume of nearly 25 million cubic feet of storage.

NewCold Advanced Logistics Center

Location: Tacoma

Photo provided by Fisher Construction Group

NewCold Advanced Logistics structure has 25 million cubic feet of storage and houses robotic cranes and conveyors.

Fisher Construction Group earned the Grand Award for Construction Excellence for their work on the NewCold Advanced Logistics Center project in Tacoma.

Only the second facility of its type in the country, the freezer and office were designed in tandem with NewCold. On a footprint of 242,000 square feet, the nearly 12-story freezer boasts an amazing volume of nearly 25 million cubic feet of storage.

The rack-supported structure represents a game-changing solution to cold storage with its low-oxygen high-bay freezer and automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). Product is stored in NewCold’s tightly controlled freezer, where oxygen is reduced to 16.5 percent saturation, eliminating the possibility of fire and allowing higher product storage. Robotic cranes and conveyors are deployed throughout the facility’s intricate racking system to deliver products to the loading dock, where they are loaded on to trucks, all without breaking the thermal cold chain.

The building operates on half the energy consumed by conventional cold storage. The challenges of designing and building a project for a first-time customer can be challenging. Designing and building a project for a foreign customer’s first entrance into the U.S. market with partners from seven different countries and speaking six different languages compounds the challenge many times over.

The success of this project depended on a high degree of organization, cooperation, and communication.

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