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Barilla America Headquarters

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Project Overview

Barilla America Headquarters, Northbrook, Illinois

Barilla North America was looking to relocate its North American headquarters, test kitchens, and food labs into a new facility in Northbrook, IL. The project scope included renovation of an existing office building to provide new office areas, customer focus group areas, and video conference facilities. 

The project also included a test kitchen for product testing, demonstration cooking, and filming of food preparation and recipe development by Barilla’s in-house chef. This included a full commercial cooking kitchen with variable speed hoods and supporting electrical and plumbing infrastructure. 

In addition to the test kitchen, a food lab was also included the design. The food lab is used for testing, product storage and transport, and included the design and installation of multiple retort machines, compressed air distribution, medium pressure steam generator, and supporting plumbing, HVAC, and electrical infrastructure.

In addition to MEP/FP engineering, Syska Hennessy provided full technology design services, including structured cabling, full audiovisual design, and access control and video surveillance design. Syska also assisted with helping Barilla evaluate their technology requirements for their main server room, which included evaluation of redundant power, cooling, and rack layouts.

Size
74,000 sf

Completion Date
2015

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Barilla America Headquarters

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