Projects - Industrial/Agricultural

 

Cavendish Farms, Jamestown, ND- Lightowler Johnson Associates performed on-going work for Cavendish Farms in Jamestown, ND. Recent projects for the facility include:

 

· Co-Product Cooler – HVAC Modifications

· Raw Receiving Upgrade

· Fryer Oil Conversion

· Batter Line Improvements

· Oilmizer

· Salt, Dextrose and Color

· And other misc. and on-going tasks

 

3000/4200 Ton Soybean Extraction Plant, Brewster, MN—Lightowler Johnson Associates is serving as the lead engineer for this expandable 3000 ton-per-day soybean processing plant.  Lightowler Johnson Associates was solely responsible for the Mechanical, Civil, and Architectural design, and was the Engineering Lead and performed partial design on Electrical and Structural.  This plant is the result of several years of planning by the Minnesota Soybean Processors (MnSP), a 2400 member cooperative located in southern Minnesota, and the South Dakota Soybean Processors (SDSP).

 

The project includes receiving, preparation, extraction, boilerhouse and pumphouse, office/shop/lab building, underground utilities, surface grading and paving, high risk fire protection, meal loadout, meal silos, water treatment plant, water transmission pipeline, and railroad spur addition.

 

The plant has been designed to allow expansion to 4200 tons per day with limited disruption of the existing structures.  The site has also been design to allow development of a refinery and biodiesel facility, again with minimal disruption.

 

1500 Ton Soybean Extraction Plant, Volga, SD— Lightowler Johnson Associates served as the lead design engineers and construction managers for this expandable, 1500 ton-per-day, “grass roots” soybean processing plant.  This plant is the first such complete plant to be constructed in the United States since the mid-1970’s.

 

This project was performed using a fast-track design method.  This method allows design to continue while initial construction takes place by specifying critical path design and construction issues, then releasing multiple bid packages to qualified contractors.  The results have exceeded all expectations, both in quality of construction and overall design-build time frame.

 

The project includes extraction, preparation and steam generation buildings, meal storage and loadout systems, truck and rail grain receiving and storage systems, short and long-term oil storage and rail loadout system, high-risk fire protection system, all site preparation and underground utilities, electrical power, lighting and automation design, laboratory and auxiliary buildings, and scales.

 

Spray Room Modifications, Busch Agricultural Resources, Moorhead, MN—This project consisted of a building addition to house spray room modifications. The modifications cool, heat, and humidify the air using a series of water spray banks and mist eliminators to condition outside air and re-circulated air. The quality of the malt produced is a direct result of the moisture and temperature of the product throughout  processing. Extra effort was taken to ensure complete temperature control.  Another  design challenge was allowing the malt plant to remain continuously in operation throughout the construction period which was in the winter.

 

2002

 

In 2002, Lightowler Johnson Associates assisted Anheuser Busch with the design of a spray room for a malting plant in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Our engineers assisted the corporate office with the layout and room design of the spray room for the $100 million facility.

 

Manufacturing Plant Expansion,I. R. Bobcat, Gwinner, ND—The project included the renovation of the existing manufacturing facility, construction of new manufacturing facilities, and a new 2-story office building and employee cafeteria.  The entire manufacturing process remained operational throughout construction.

 

The new 165,000 s.f. manufacturing plant building along with the 130,000 s.f. remodeled area tied together all other existing plant buildings under one roof.

 

Aggregate Industries, Grand Forks, ND; Fargo, ND; and Crookston, MN—Working with the owners of what was then Camps Concrete, LJA developed a ready-mix concrete batching plant.

LJA assisted in process design, equipment layout, architectural design, electrical, mechanical, structural and civil engineering.  LJA also provided full site survey work.

The plan included a batching room, administrative offices, control room and machine shop

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