Dairy Process Line Expansion Cost Controls
Three new process lines added to a dairy plant that ran every day of the project.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Upper Midwest
- Market
- Food & Beverage
- Our role
- Cost forecasting and change control
- Size
- 3 process lines
- Delivery
- EPCM
- Duration
- 18 months
- Completed
- 2023
What was at stake.
Tie-ins could happen only during short sanitation windows. Every change in equipment layout brought piping, electrical and controls rework, and the owner learned the cost of each change months after it was made.
What we did.
Beck Franklin's role: cost forecasting and change control. We advise and measure; the contractor builds.
Weekly forecast
We built a cost forecast updated weekly from commitments, approved changes and pending change requests.
Change log with time
Every change was priced and scheduled before approval, so the plant manager saw cost and downtime together.
Tie-in windows
Tie-ins were scheduled into sanitation windows and tracked so none ran over into production.
Closeout clean
All changes were closed and the final cost reconciled within sixty days of start-up.
What the team delivered.
A change priced after it is built is a surprise. We priced each one before the plant said yes.
Cost engineer, Beck Franklin
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