Comprehensive Facility Planning & Design

Today's modern livestock facilities face potential liabilities and external threats to their viability and efficiency that must be accounted for during the planning and design stage.  Whether you're planning a new facility, expanding your present operation, or upgrading to meet environmental regulation, CRA offers expertise in facility design to help you make the most of your operation.  CRA provides design and planning advice to control costs while providing an excellent indoor environment for workers and animals alike.  Options can be developed for a variety of modern labor saving manure handling, transfer, and storage systems that reduce odor and waste output.

When planning a new livestock operation, it is beneficial to conduct a site evaluation for the facility during the initial stages.  Expanding livestock operations face unique challenges, such as design justification based on site characteristics, neighbor discontent, and operations site planning, which must be addressed to ensure success.  The identification of operations needs and environmental exposures involves analysis of historic resource data and site specific surface and subsurface investigations.

CRA can help you minimize risks by assisting in the site selection, assessment, and characterization process.  Communication and cooperation are key elements in meeting operational, regulatory, and social issue requirements.  Where required, CRA provides clients with leading edge data analysis and site visualization services to help justify, promote, and improve understanding of the proposed development to regulators and the community.

Finally, CRA is also capable of providing turn key design build construction services, or CRA will work with your contractor to ensure that facilities are built to your specifications.  Whenever or however you want to proceed, CRA will work with you to meet your requirements.  A summary of our facility planning and design services are listed below.

  • Site Assessment/Investigation
  • Site Characterization/Investigation
  • Site Development Services
  • Regulatory Permitting
  • Facility Design Services
  • Construction Services