Bratney Co.

Scope Of Work

Bratney Companies delivered a new conditioning facility for a global leader in alfalfa seed research and development. In true turn-key fashion, Bratney's process engineers and construction teams handled everything from conceptual design through construction and plant start-up.

Challenged by the local landscape and running the project on an operational site, Bratney's project management team worked closely with the customer operations and management to ensure their existing operations could run safely and uninterrupted. Due to the local site conditions, extensive site preparation was required including:

Demolition of an existing building

Remediation of contaminated soils

Local blasting of buried rock shelves

Construction of an underground stormwater retention system

Specialized building foundations with rock anchors.

Another interesting aspect of the project was an innovative process flow. The customer frequently cleans different varieties of alfalfa seeds, and consequently can't have any cross-contamination. Bratney designed two mirrored seed cleaning lines, each with a capacity of 5,000 lbs. per hour, allowing the customer flexibility to run two products independently or one product at twice the capacity.

In addition to the 10,000 sq. ft. processing tower, Bratney also designed and constructed a 100,000 sq. ft. storage warehouse and a separate 8,000 sq. ft. office space.

Project Scope - Turn-Key Alfalfa Seed Plant, Warehouse and Office

conceptual design and scope development

process engineering

facility design

project management

construction management

millwright services

equipment selection

equipment installation

facility start-up and commissioning

operator training

Project Details

Two 5,000 lbs. per hour seed cleaning lines to run two products simultaneously without cross-contamination

100,000 sq. ft. storage warehouse

10,000 sq. ft. processing plant

8,000 sq. ft. office space

Underground stormwater retention system

Extensive site clearing, including demolition of an existing building, contaminated soils remediation and blasting of buried rock shelves

Specialized building of foundations with rock anchors

The project occurred at an existing facility, extra care was taken so the customer could maintain full operation during construction of the new plant

Conceptual design started in March 2014, construction finished in August of 2015

Equipment Solutions

Cimbria Air Screen Cleaners for pre-cleaning and precision cleaning

Cimbria Gravity Tables

Cimbria Bucket Elevators

Plant automation and control system

Motor control center

Dust control center

Compressed air system