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HCS Crete Crete, NE Cold Storage Facility $7,000,000 Completed - Sept 2003

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Construction	Construction	Construction	Plant Completed
Aisle Racks	Blast Freezer Door	Plant Completed	Compressor Room
Pick Aisle	Turrent Truck	Truck Doors	S&R Dock

Harker Cold Storage in Crete, Nebraska is a "state of the art" cold storage facility designed as a public storage warehouse with distribution warehouse capabilities. The primary customer is the Farmland Foods hog plant located directly across the road from this facility. It has 9,400 pallet spaces of general storage and 360 pallet positions of blast freezing with a capability of freezing 200,000 lbs per day.

The freezer has a very narrow aisle layout utilizing turret trucks in a high-density configuration. Freezer floors are placed "superflat" to accommodate the turret trucks. A fifty-foot high structure allows product to be stored in racks six high. Pallets are stored in a two-deep configuration, which makes every pallet accessible without moving more than one other pallet. Dedicated pick aisles are located under the racks for "pick-to-pallet" distribution. This layout eliminates the conflicts between the restocking operation and the picking operation.

The dock is designed with vertical storing dock levelers and wide doors that allow the truck doors to open into the facility.

The refrigeration system is an ammonia system designed for maximum safety. The compressor room is completely isolated from the rest of the building. All ammonia vessels are placed outside and are remote from most employees and the public. Ammonia piping and valves are located outside of the building envelope as much as possible.

The freezer floor is 10-inch reinforced concrete over high-density insulation. Electric heat tapes controlled by temperature sensors provide under-floor heat. This provides redundant and easily replaceable temperature control to prevent frost heaving problems.

Eight blast freezers each with a capacity of 45 pallets can blast freeze in excess of 200,000 lbs of product per day.

Nelson Engineering Construction Developed, Financed, Designed, and built this Project.

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