Motor Control Center (MCC) Integration: High-density clash-free coordination of a concrete enclosure within an existing structural grid. Managed 20+ pre-pour slab penetrations and maintenance clearances for electrical switchgear while utilizing Point Cloud data to integrate new housekeeping pads and fire-rated assemblies into the existing warehouse footprint. DD & CD phase with Structural, Electrical & HVAC while with Matrix Technologies Inc.

Complex Systems Coordination: Interior view of the tower showing the integration of life-safety egress (stairs/ platforms) with high-density process equipment and piping - large surge-bins, hopper, bagger, de-seration, dust collector, conveying and palletizing systems..

FOOD PROCESS PLANT

CORNSTARCH BAGGER TOWER / FOOD PROCESS INTEGRATION

Multi-hazard food-processing. An 80-foot multi-story bagging tower integrated into an active 50-year-old warehouse facility — combustible dust mitigation, FDA sanitary protocol, and high-hazard life-safety egress documented as a single coordinated effort.

Architectural focus:

• NFPA 654 combustible dust mitigation. Sloped “dust-shedding” structural transitions and negative-pressure seals engineered to prevent dust accumulation across surge bins, hoppers, baggers, deaeration equipment, dust collectors, live conveying, and palletizing systems.

• FDA sanitary process design. Multi-sloped “sheet-flow” sanitary slabs beneath live conveyors for full FDA wash-down efficiency, with new trench drains and catch basins sloped to tie into existing sewer mains — executed without compromising the 75-year-old structural integrity.

• High-hazard life-safety egress. Stair and platform egress navigated down from 80 feet through extreme-temperature zones, surge bins, and dense process piping, transitioning from OSHA equipment geometry to IBC means of egress at the building proper.

• Point Cloud Scan-to-BIM. LiDAR point cloud reconciliation for precise structural, roof-penetration, plumbing, and slab alignment within the existing warehouse footprint — coordinated against original record drawings.

• Multi-discipline live coordination. Joint Navisworks clash-resolution sessions alongside structural, electrical, HVAC, and process engineering teams — contributing as a specialist consultant within the project’s live model environment.

Coordinated by Christian Hemrick while at Matrix Technologies Inc.

MCC ROOM / ALL-CONCRETE EQUIPMENT ENCLOSURE

Motor Control Center integration within an active 75-year-old warehouse. A new all-concrete electrical enclosure — approximately 15 by 20 feet, CMU walls filled with rock wool and grout, lightweight poured concrete roof — coordinated clash-free into an existing structural grid alongside live combustible-dust process operations.

Architectural focus:

• Pre-pour penetration coordination. 20-plus slab and roof penetrations located via point cloud scans, new electrical drawings, and digitized original hand-drawn record sets — center points dimensioned onto the new roof drawings before the pour.

• Constrained ceiling geometry. Roof height maximized to clear server-bank stacks, a new transformer, and electrical and HVAC equipment, while held to a minimum clearance preserving a 15-to-18-inch maintenance crawl space above.

• Arc-flash-aware layout. Interior equipment clearances dimensioned exactly to prevent worker positioning that could create an arc-flash path between switchgear — a life-safety-critical tolerance.

• Combustible dust isolation. Four-inch raised concrete housekeeping pads elevating all equipment off the floor, where combustible starch dust from the surrounding warehouse process could otherwise collect

• Egress-compliant door placement. Oversized equipment-access doors located in the coursed block while maintaining the IBC half-diagonal separation requirement between the two required egress doors

Coordinated by Christian Hemrick while at Matrix Technologies Inc.