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Top 100 Design-Build Firms (ENR)

 

 

 

6,000 +

Projects Completed Across North America

 

 

 

48

Offices Nationwide

 

 

 

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75 %

Repeat Client Revenue

 

 

 

Market Overview

ARCO/Murray partners with food and beverage manufacturers building and expanding facilities for processing, packaging, bottling, and distribution operations. Our experience includes ground-up production facilities, plant expansions, and equipment-driven retrofits where sanitary design, process utilities, and equipment layout directly influence building systems and overall facility design.

Food and beverage production environments require careful coordination between processing equipment, utilities, building systems, and regulatory requirements. From production lines and washdown areas to packaging and cold storage integration, our teams understand how facility design supports safe, efficient operations and long-term production reliability.

 

 

 

Our Approach

Design-build is how we create cost and schedule certainty in food and beverage production projects. ARCO/Murray integrates engineering and construction from the start, so facility design is aligned with production lines, sanitary environments, and the process utilities that support them. By evaluating equipment layouts, washdown requirements, and infrastructure such as steam, compressed air, and wastewater systems during design, our teams ensure the building and production systems work together.

For equipment-driven facilities where food safety, operational uptime, and regulatory compliance are critical, this integrated approach reduces coordination risk and allows manufacturers to bring new production capacity online faster and with greater confidence.

 

 

 

  • Single Point of Accountability
    One contract and one integrated team aligning facility design, equipment coordination, and construction from concept through startup.

     

     

     

  • Upfront Budget Commitment
    Cost alignment begins during design so production lines, utilities, and building systems are incorporated before construction begins.

     

     

     

  • Faster Path to Production
    Overlapping design, procurement, and construction brings new capacity online sooner.

     

     

     

  • Production Line & Equipment Coordination
    Facility layouts are aligned with specialized equipment to support efficient operations and future scalability.

     

     

     

  • Sanitary & Utility Infrastructure Integration
    Process utilities and washdown environments are coordinated with building systems to support safe, compliant production environments.

     

     

     

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