Blythewood, South Carolina
Hoffman was selected to provide planning, design, and construction services for Charter NEX’s new blown film production facility on a greenfield site located in South Carolina. Prior to performing the facility’s design and construction, Hoffman worked with Charter NEX to review multiple states and sites for possible new location. Hoffman met with (a) local utilities to verify that there was adequate size available for Charter NEX and (b) local municipalities to engage in discussions regarding possible funding incentives. Prior to site selection, Hoffman reviewed existing locations for possible renovation opportunities versus building new on a greenfield site and developed conceptual site plans that analyzed access to the site from nearby major highways. A major consideration was that any new site either needed to be located on a railroad or be able to have the railroad extend to Charter NEX’s greenfield site.
The 78’ high 10 MW load production facility is a single-story structure with four levels of mezzanines. With spaces such as a production area, warehouse, class ‘A’ offices, and support space, the facility is roughly 193,500 square feet. The design required coordination of a new adjacent railroad spur for distribution. Rapid turnaround of drawing revisions during construction was necessary to meet deadlines due to late delivery timing of production equipment selections.
