Food plant production hall & mezzanine, Buraidah
- Client
- Tamween Food Industries
- Location
- Buraidah
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Steel erected
- 172 t
- Mezzanine area
- 640 m²
172 t of hall steel and a 640 m² process mezzanine handed over in 14 weeks.
The challenge
A food-processing hall in Buraidah needed frame, mezzanine and racking posts on a fixed opening date, with a hygiene spec that banned on-site welding once the envelope was sealed. Base plates also had to clear embedded services the client’s engineer added late in the design.
Our approach
Everything was fabricated and match-marked in Madinah — including the mezzanine and all racking and shelving posts — so site work was lifting and bolting only. Embedded services were re-surveyed before steel arrived and two base plates were relocated in the workshop, not on site. Erection ran with two crews of eleven behind an 80-tonne crane, and the frame was bolted, braced and released to the cladding crew in six weeks.
The result
Handover in 14 weeks: 172 tonnes, 640 m² mezzanine and 48 racking posts installed, zero welds made inside the sealed envelope, zero lost-time injuries across 18,600 safe man-hours.
Scope delivered
- Fabrication & match-marking in Madinah
- Base plates set around embedded services
- Hall frame erected behind an 80-t crane
- Process mezzanine bolted in place
- Racking & shelving posts installed
- No-weld handover to the cladding crew
Zero welding inside a sealed food hall was written into our hygiene plan — they never once needed a grinder on site.Engineering lead · Tamween Food Industries