Agricultural & Food Processing

Barns, silos and food factories — hygiene and harvest dates set the programme.

Agricultural work runs from the simple to the surgical. At one end, a steel-framed barn put up between seasons with the shared shell methods linked below; at the other, food and drink plants where hygienic finishes, drainage falls and washdown regimes dictate every detail, and the quality standard is set by what the customer eats, not what the building inspector says.

Either way, the calendar is not yours: harvest and production schedules decide when you may build. The three guides in this sector cover agricultural buildings — barns, silos and grain stores; food processing facilities, where the fabric is designed to be hosed down nightly; and glasshouses and vertical farms, where the building is a controlled climate with a crop inside it.

What does Agricultural & Food Processing cover?

• Farm buildings & silos
• Food & drink processing
• Cold chains
• Grain handling & storage

Process guides in Agricultural & Food Processing

• Agricultural Buildings — Livestock sheds that breathe, grain stores that hold back tonnes of wheat like a dam holds water, slurry stores that must never leak, and yards that carry a loaded combine in the rain — the working buildings of a farm.
• Food & Beverage Processing Facilities — Factories where the building is part of the hygiene system — washable everything, drainage that actually drains, high-care sealed from low-care, and enough services density to run a small town's worth of steam, water and refrigeration.
• Glasshouses & Vertical Farms — Acres of glass and steel tuned like an instrument — climate screens, fog and fertigation, CO2 from the CHP, gutters that drink the rain — plus the stacked, LED-lit rooms where farming went indoors entirely.

Shared methods used in Agricultural & Food Processing

• Site Access & Enabling Works
• Earthworks & Excavation
• Shallow Foundations
• Steel Frame Construction
• Floor Slabs & Screeds
• Roofing
• Façade & Cladding
• Windows, Doors & Glazing
• MEP First Fix
• Testing, Handover & Snagging

Part of the Industrial & Specialist Facilities group.