Facility: Eastern Office and Distribution Center
Size: 1.4 Million SF Facility
Location: Denver, PA
Services Provided: Architecture Design

Acme's Eastern Distribution Center comprises of four buildings totaling approximately 1.4 million square feet. The main distribution building contains 45,000-square-foot of offices, computer rooms, training rooms, lunchrooms and locker rooms.

The warehouse portion is comprised of a dry warehouse, perishable cooler, -10°F to -20°F freezer, ice-making room, banana rooms, and support facilities. The building is divided by three four-hour MFL (Maximum Forceable Loss) concrete masonry fire walls. The structure is steel and includes a foamed-in-place insulated metal wall panel. The metallic silver wall panels are accentuated with a vertical white panel and charcoal grey truck dock canopies. The horizontal mass is further relieved by shipping/receiving offices which are comprised of horizontal metal siding, glass curtainwall system, and a two-color composite aluminum panel cornice. The support building includes a 59,000 SF truck maintenance garage, pump house, and guard house.

The maintenance garage includes a 10-station tractor repair area, 16-tractor repair bays with truck lifts, (2) truck wash bays, tire parts storage and storage for hydraulic fluids, exterior fueling station, offices, lunchroom, and locker rooms.  Lube and oil systems were included and consisted of compressed air, oil, grease and anti-freeze. The structure was pre-engineered with 3" foamed-in-place urethane insulated metal panels and a 80-mil fully-adhered P.V.C. roof membrane.