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KPE Awarded ACEC Honor Award in the Small Firms Category

KPE accepts the ACEC Honor Award in the Small Firms Category for Union Pacific Global 4 AG Transload Facility Project.

 

About the Project:

KPE was awarded a contract for engineering services by Union Pacific Railroad with the goal of designing a State-of-the-Art, highly automated grain processing and transporting facility. The facility would intake grain, test, clean, and store it until it was ready to be shipped to other plants or even overseas to be utilized. This facility would include multiple buildings, several large storage bins, and various other user kiosks all spread across an 8-acre campus. KPE designed an extensive cable tray routing plan to provide power and control wiring to all designed locations across the facility. KPE worked closely with multiple manufacturers, controls contractors, and the client to design an extensive automated system for the facility.

 

This automation allowed for facility centralization, and low numbers of operators being able to manage the large facility. This automation system also worked to reduce loading and unloading times. Due to the constant presence of grain dust, elevated working conditions, high vehicle traffic, and high automation, the facility would have constant hazardous conditions for users and equipment. All designs were made with operator safety and facility safety in mind. These safety precautions included additional emergency lighting systems, lockable disconnecting means in central locations, and heavy-duty equipment enclosures. KPE persevered through supply chain complications and changing equipment requirements to successfully complete the $22 Million dollar facility.

Employee Well-Being

We help our customers by prioritizing the health and well-being of our employees. Employees have learned to work efficiently and safely from home with the benefit of extra time with family without a commute. Knowing their families are safe gives them more capacity to focus on the customer’s needs.

Quality Solutions

KPE’s commitment to deliver cost-effective and timely solutions to customer’s challenges remains constant regardless of complications that arise. The current environment allows us to demonstrate our ability to adapt to changing conditions without sacrificing quality.

Quality Solutions

KPE’s commitment to deliver cost-effective and timely solutions to customer’s challenges remains constant regardless of complications that arise. The current environment allows us to demonstrate our ability to adapt to changing conditions without sacrificing quality.

Communication

Engineers and architects communicate between all branch offices and while working on projects across the country. We are committed to efficient communication with partners and clients. KPE customers praise our response time, which is a direct result of our communication practices.

Customer Delight

We are committed to addressing your concerns and guiding you through the process. Being committed to customer delight means listening to your needs, working within your budget, and planning your building around the changing needs of our social and economic climate.

Deliver

  • KPE’s planners and designers develop and implement specialized solutions to achieve your ideal educational environment.
  • Our high percentage of licensed design staff, 65%, ensure tasks are done right the first time.
  • KPE professionals have a wide range of experience including educational and office spaces.

Assess

  • KPE professionals help clients define priorities by accurately assessing existing facilities and listening to community and educational values.
  • We provide data and options for you to simply understand the best step forward in achieving your educational needs.
  • The same team drawing your construction documents are also involved in our Forensic Investigations, which means assessing design errors and construction defects on projects designed and constructed by other firms.
  • This gives KPE designers more insight on existing buildings and allows us to more accurately prepare for otherwise potentially costly changes.

Listen

  • We exchange ideas, share expertise and – above all – we listen. Through open, candid communication, we gain consensus and create truly successful design.
  • Having all architects and engineers under the same roof allows quick and efficient communication. This efficiency is accomplished by orderly internal design coordination meetings, frequent communication between departments, documentation of decisions, and frequent detailed reports to owners.
  • We engage our clients in a collaborative dialogue throughout the process. Successful projects begin with strong relationships.