Cuisine Solutions

San Antonio

BEST PROJECT

OWNER/LEAD DESIGN FIRM/CIVIL/STRUCTURAL:Stellar Group Inc.

DEVELOPER:Cambridge Development Group LLC

GENERAL CONTRACTOR:佩普道森

CIVIL ENGINEER:佩普道森

STRUCTURAL/MEP ENGINEER:Stellar Group Inc.


Cuisine Solutions的Sous Vide Processing设施于2020年10月完工,有能力每天不断烹饪高达500,000磅的牛肉,家禽和鸡蛋产品。

The Stellar team had the entire structure designed when the municipality’s architectural review board requested most rooftop equipment be screened. Adding this material required sending steel back into redesign and working with structural engineers and the steel supplier to minimize impacts related to those changes.

Use of pervious concrete required construction crews and subcontractors to team with a local consultant who specialized in the product, which led to the successful installation of 30,000 sq ft of the material.

Cuisine Solutions

Photo by Jerry Smith

The Cuisine Solutions facility is the largest participant in San Antonio’s Big Sun Community Solar program. The facility’s 300-space parking area is shaded by solar panels that are available for purchase by area residents. The clean, renewable energy generated by the panels (up to 780 kilowatts) is sent to the local utility’s energy grid, and the savings are credited to the owner’s home electric bill.

Cuisine Solutions

Photo by Jerry Smith

另一个可持续innovation at the facility is the management of stormwater runoff. Parking areas designed as bioswales concentrate and convey stormwater runoff while filtering out debris. Civil and landscape engineers designed the system, and Stellar constructed it in the field. The bioswale runs 4 ft below the ground at its deepest point and includes a vapor barrier to prevent excess water from leaking into the soil below. This particular low-impact design is the first of its kind in the city of San Antonio.