Feed Products & Bulk Feed Storage
The Rundown
When business growth meant a need for additional space at their Madison, Illinois, location, Feed Products & Service Company added a fabric building with precast concrete bins for storage and transloading of bulk feed products.
Feature Details
- 120 ft x 460 ft with 40 ft x 190 ft lean-to (62,800 sq ft)
- White and gray PVC fabric cladding
- Hot dip galvanized steel frame
- Conveyor load of 750 lbs per running foot
- 18-in overhangs with mesh soffit for ventilation
- Precast concrete storage bins with sliding steel bin gates and panels
- 40,000-ton capacity
- 90 mph wind, wind exposure C, 20# snow, enclosed, full exposure, low occupancy
- Building use: Bulk feed distribution
Industry
Bulk Commodity
Size
62,800 sq ft
Location
Madison, IL
Year
2018
Testimonials
The new building will protect the salt supply.
It will be protected from being compromised by wind and precipitation. Once the general contractor completed the footings and floors, Legacy installed the fabric building very quickly, in about two weeks. It was a very positive process with professional communication between Legacy and Dewberry throughout the project.
Everything that Legacy said they were going to do, they did.
We obviously had contracts, but the overall feel was kind of like the olden days, where you felt you could just take somebody at their word. Price is a major factor in any purchase decision. But we didn't blink at having to pay a little more for the Legacy structure. Sometimes you have to spend more to get a higher quality building. The installation was very smooth. Legacy's in-house crew worked in cold winter conditions, and they erected the building within five days. They were a very professional group, and I'd highly recommend them. We like the sidewall columns going straight up instead of curving down like in our hoop buildings. First off, it lets us put more product in there. And our front-end loaders can get much closer to the walls and drive straight down the sides. It gives us more working room and increases our efficiency. In the long run I think this will be a building that requires less maintenance. Legacy was so outstanding to work with that I didn't even bother looking at pricing elsewhere.
Legacy was very easy to work with.
The old buildings used tubular steel, and no matter what you do, the salt gets inside the tubes and corrodes them. They came out here with their crew, rented all their equipment, and erected the buildings in three weeks flat – a week ahead of schedule. It's a stand-up company.
