- Client
- Confidential Client
- Location
- Confidential Location
- Project Type
- Bakery & Food Manufacturing
The Assignment
Renew a Congested Bakery’s Infrastructure
A confidential pie bakery needed to overhaul refrigeration, process piping, underground plumbing, and electrical systems inside an active facility. The project had a fixed one-month outage window and limited room for the trades to work. The facility’s production calendar, including seasonal demand, made the completion date an important part of the brief.
DPS coordinated the four infrastructure scopes through a shared plan for preparation, access, installation, integration, and commissioning. Refrigeration and piping interfaces had to be considered alongside work below the production floor and the electrical connections needed to return the modified systems to service.
The Conditions Shaping the Work
- A fixed, non-negotiable one-month planned outage window for the facility overhaul.
- Highly congested production areas within an active pie bakery.
- Complex underground-plumbing and refrigeration work coordinated with piping and electrical activities.
- No schedule-overrun allowance because delays could affect the bakery’s seasonal production requirements.
The Engineering Challenge
Four Systems. One Fixed Outage.
The bakery was highly congested, with existing equipment and operating areas constraining access. Several trades needed to use the same limited spaces, so the order of refrigeration, piping, underground-plumbing, and electrical work affected the wider programme.
The one-month window allowed no schedule overrun. Local production could continue where practical, but its availability depended on which areas and services were affected at each stage. The delivery plan therefore connected the fixed outage with the operating activity that could remain in place while infrastructure work progressed elsewhere in the facility.
The DPS Response
DPS coordinated refrigeration, process piping, underground plumbing, and electrical work through one multi-trade plan for the congested bakery. The installation sequence connected preparation, trade access, infrastructure replacement, integration, and commissioning within the fixed one-month window, while maintaining local operational continuity where the work allowed.
DPS Project Scope
- Refrigeration infrastructure overhaul
- Process piping replacement and integration
- Underground plumbing coordination
- Electrical-system work and trade interfaces
- Congested-space sequencing and daily field oversight
- Final system integration, checks, and commissioning
Explore the Engineering Scope
Pie & Bakery Facility Engineering
Coordinate refrigeration, piping, drains, electrical work and the shutdown plan around a bakery that must restart reliably.
Process Engineering & Design
Coordinate process diagrams, facility layouts, utility loads, hygienic requirements, controls specifications, and capital planning for food and beverage facilities.
Steam & Hot Water
Compare source capacity, point-of-use heat transfer, steam quality, condensate return and overlapping production / CIP loads.
The Delivery Plan
Connect Refrigeration, Plumbing, and Power
Design and mobilization established a multi-trade strategy around the confined layout and the fixed deadline. The work brought the four infrastructure scopes into one installation sequence, with preparation and trade access considered before the main field activities began.
The original programme places planning and mobilization in Weeks 1–2, refrigeration and piping in Weeks 2–3, and underground plumbing and electrical work in Weeks 3–4. Those ranges overlap, reflecting the coordinated nature of the work. The final week includes system integration, testing, and adjustments rather than treating commissioning as an activity outside the one-month window.
Daily field oversight connected the trades and supported real-time changes to the sequence. Complex underground-plumbing and refrigeration activities were carried out while local bakery operations continued where possible. The shared programme linked individual installation tasks with the checks needed before the altered systems could be handed back for use.
Design · Build · Manage
Design
Plan refrigeration, piping, underground plumbing, and electrical requirements together within the congested facility layout. Develop a multi-trade coordination strategy around the fixed one-month outage and the areas that could remain in use.
Build
Sequence the four infrastructure scopes through the active bakery, including complex underground-plumbing and refrigeration work. Coordinate trade access and connections while maintaining local operating continuity where possible.
Manage
Use daily oversight and intensive trade coordination to track the programme, make real-time adjustments, and connect installation with final integration and commissioning. The project account reports completion without schedule overruns.
The Execution Sequence
Weeks 1–2
Planning & Mobilization
The original sequence begins with the multi-trade plan and preparation of refrigeration, piping, underground-plumbing, and electrical scopes for work in the congested facility.
Weeks 2–3
Refrigeration & Piping
Refrigeration and piping were installed in constrained areas, with bakery activity continuing locally where the work allowed.
Weeks 3–4
Underground Plumbing & Electrical
Below-floor plumbing and electrical work were coordinated with the other trades and the limited available access.
Final Week
Integration & Commissioning
The installed systems were integrated and tested, with final adjustments included before the one-month deadline.
On Time
Project Complete
The original account reports completion of the facility overhaul within the planned window, without a schedule overrun.
The week ranges and Final Week label come from the original project account and overlap. They describe coordinated phases within the same one-month programme and should not be added together as separate durations.
The Completion Milestone
Completion means the refrigeration, piping, underground-plumbing, and electrical scopes had been installed, integrated, tested, and adjusted within the reported one-month window. Local operations continued where practical; the project still included a planned outage.
The Project Outcome
Overhaul Completed Within the Planned Month
DPS reports completion of the overhaul within the planned month without a schedule overrun. The result covers the refrigeration, piping, underground-plumbing, and electrical scopes together with their integration and commissioning in the congested bakery.
The operating context remained an active facility, with local continuity where the work permitted. The project still had a defined planned outage; the account does not establish that every production area operated without interruption. The client and location remain confidential, and the reported schedule result belongs to this particular facility overhaul.
- Planned Outage Window
- 1 Month
- The original project account describes a fixed one-month window and reports completion within that programme.
- Infrastructure Scopes
- 4
- Refrigeration, piping, underground plumbing, and electrical work were coordinated within the same facility overhaul.
- Operating Context
- Active Bakery
- The work took place in a highly congested bakery, with local operations continuing where practical during the planned outage programme.
- Reported Schedule Overruns
- 0
- The original project account reports no schedule overrun for this specific one-month facility overhaul.
The Client Perspective
An Excerpt From the Original Published Project Account
DPS delivered our complete facility overhaul in a highly congested pie bakery within the strict one-month window with zero overruns.
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