AM King, a leading general design and construction firm with offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina, and Chicago, Illinois, is the 2024 design-build project team in the Southeast region of the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA). I won an award. Annual Regional Summit & 24th Annual Awards Banquet. AM King was selected for exemplary project execution for his ALDI regional headquarters and distribution mega facility in Loxley, Alabama, and received a Bronze Award in the Industrial Facilities and/or Research Facilities category. Members of the AM King project team received their awards at a ceremony on April 23rd.rd The event was held at Kiawah Island Resort in South Carolina.
AM King provides real estate consulting to repeat customer ALDI US, one of America’s fastest growing retailers, and serves as a blueprint for future ALDI locations as the company expands across the Southeast and the United States designed and built a regional flagship facility for The approximately 600,000 square foot Gulf Coast operation has more than 100 stores in southern Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle region, giving the company a presence in 38 states. There is.
Previously, AM King was recognized for this same project in the Carolinas Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC Carolinas) 2023 Excellence in Construction (EIC) Award Competition. AM King won ABC’s “Best in Class” Eagle Award, the highest level of award in the Industrial/Over $50 Million category. Winner of an exclusive 2023 Carolinas Design-Build Award. He was also named a finalist for ABC’s 2023 Project of the Year. Early last year, AM King received a Lifetime Achievement Award for the ALDI-Loxley project. engineering news record (ENR) Southeast Region Best Project Award Contest.
“Our experienced design and construction professionals work collaboratively with the entire project team to overcome each of the project’s challenges, meeting our long-standing client’s critical product delivery deadlines while delivering on this complex project. “We were able to successfully complete this project,” said Dan Crist, president of AM King. . “Being recognized by DBIA is especially rewarding as our company is 100% focused on design-to-build delivery.”
About the DBIA Southeast Award
DBIA Southeast recognizes exemplary applications of Design-Build Done RightTM At a minimum, this has resulted in highly successful design-build projects that achieve the best value while meeting design and construction quality, cost, and schedule goals. To be eligible for a Design-Build award, a project must demonstrate the appropriateness of Design-Build principles, including but not limited to multidisciplinary collaboration and acceptance of single-entity risk in the early stages of the project. Applicability must be demonstrated. Winning projects are recognized for advanced and innovative applications of comprehensively integrated project delivery and finding unique solutions to project challenges.
Project Details | ALDI Loxley Regional Headquarters and Logistics Facility
AM King worked with ALDI to determine appropriate site infrastructure requirements. The property needed to be large enough, buildable, and strategically located. Ultimately, AM King helped ALDI acquire a 150-acre site conveniently located just north of Interstate 10 between Mobile, Alabama. and Pensacola, Florida. We are 40 miles from Gulf Shores, Alabama.
The facility concept is a continuation of the retailer’s commitment to maximizing operational efficiency through facility design. Several new elements have been incorporated into his Loxley facility to increase efficiency, including:
- Use metal insulated panels (IMPs) in place of sloped concrete or precast concrete exterior wall panels. This warehouse is completely engineered with 6-inch thick IMP, creating a heat-tight and efficient building envelope.
- The optimal rack configuration is determined by product analysis from a storage and flow perspective.
- First ALDI distribution center to utilize cross-docking services.
- Floor-to-ceiling curtain walls surrounding both sides of the two-story office allow a large amount of natural light to filter into the space. The office has a large unobstructed glass area, giving all employees views of the outdoors.
- Restrooms, changing rooms, ambient temperature and employee maintenance of cold rooms and freezers are located in the center of the building.
Notable sustainability initiatives in buildings include:
- A complete solar panel array will be installed on top of the dry warehouse to send excess energy back to the grid.
- The fresh dock’s drive-in style dock door greatly improves the sealing of a heat-tight building.
- Clerestory windows surround the dry areas of the warehouse, allowing natural light to enter.
- Supplement lighting needs within the area.
- Energy efficiency is improved by installing LED lighting throughout the building and grounds.
The scope of work at the Loxley facility included 216,781 square feet of dry (ambient temperature) storage. 22,022 square feet of 55 degree storage. 65,674 square feet of 34 degree cooler storage. 12,914 square feet of 30 degree meat storage. 27,975 square feet of 0 degree freezers. 4,957 square feet of -10 degree ice cream freezer. 45,779 square feet of fresh produce loading and unloading docks with 38 dock locations. 82,304 square feet dry inbound/outbound dock, 49 dock locations. 24,679 square feet of Class A office space.
AM King is a full-service design-build firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with offices in Greenville, South Carolina, and Chicago, Illinois. An employee-owned company, AM King consistently and successfully delivers quality projects throughout the United States. With an experienced team committed to protecting its customers’ assets, the company provides real estate consulting, design, construction and equipment services in key market areas including food processing, food distribution, industrial manufacturing and corporate real estate.
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