Flex-N-Gate produces a majority of the world’s pickup truck bumpers, running boards, and receiver hitches. Its customers include General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota, among other manufacturers. IMEG was selected by Flex-N-Gate to provide M/E/P/S designs to replace the existing dust collection system at the Guardian West plant, located in Urbana. Part of the project
IMEG provided structural engineering design services for SunStar America’s new, three-story office headquarters and single-story manufacturing facility. The headquarters consists of a cafeteria, training classrooms, offices, and gathering and executive spaces. The goal of the structural design for the office space was to bring the outdoors inside. The building’s gallery space provides a gathering space
Almost 100 years old, the three-story Baker Building in downtown Muscatine, Iowa, had been a healthcare facility, then an auto parts store before becoming the headquarters of furniture manufacturer HNI Corporation. HNI felt a civic responsibility to help rejuvenate the downtown and wanted to take advantage of the building’s dramatic Mississippi River views. In 2004,
Caterpillar’s new visitor center showcases the company’s worldwide display of construction equipment. It also features exhibits, simulators, a 62-seat theater (inside a 24-foot tall Cat 797 mining truck), offices and a merchandise center. The LEED Gold facility features solar panels that supply up to 75 of its energy, mechanical and electrical systems that use 35
IMEG was selected to provide full engineering design for a building gut-renovation to serve as the new location for an industrial food process and laboratory facility. The purpose of the project was to provide a new facility for the existing functions and to make improvements that address deficiencies in the existing building. The new facility
IMEG was selected to provide Process, Mechanical, Electrical and Structural engineering services for a sesame seed facility expansion at Sesaco’s Hobart, Oklahoma operation. The expansion project included a receiving building addition, additional bulk storage, processing equipment additions and renovations, new dust collection systems, mechanical conveyance equipment and a new compressed air system. IMEG design services
IMEG provided structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and technology engineering design services for the new Robert T. Hamilton Poultry Teaching and Research Facility at Iowa State University (ISU). The complex is a modern, state-of-the-art facility hosting educational and research spaces for poultry breeding and genetics, housing systems, flock management, nutrition, food safety and microbiology, behavior and
IMEG provided mechanical and structural engineering design services for the retrofit of an existing 19,000 CFM dust collection system. The existing dust collection system serving the facility was discharging filtered air to the exterior of the building. The facility did not have a makeup air system, which created substantial negative pressure inside the building. This
IMEG provided structural and MEP engineering design services for a 38,000-sf state-of-the-art replacement material testing lab. The fast-track project included energy efficient systems design and sustainable materials meeting, or exceeding, Michigan Energy Code requirements. The facility houses 15 specific labs for equipment and processes including gas chromatography, inductively coupled plasma, asbestos analysis, non-destructive examination, intermediate
Allison Transmission’s new Vehicle Environmental Test (VET) Center is a new, one-of-a-kind testing facility located on the company’s headquarters campus in Indianapolis, IN. This industry-leading facility allows OEMs, body builders, suppliers, and end-users to satisfy their vehicle testing needs in a single environment-controlled location year-round. The VET Center is one of only a few extreme
