Food & Beverage · New ConstructionCompleted 2023

Greenfield Beverage Bottling & Distribution Plant

Bare ground to first bottle in twenty-three months, with distribution contracts already signed.

LocationQuerétaro, Mexico

ClientConfidential

LocationQuerétaro, Mexico

SectorFood & Beverage

Value$255M

Size470,000 sq ft · 4 lines

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration23 months

StatusCompleted 2023

Why it mattered

Food and beverage plants live by market windows: peak season, retail launches, distribution contracts. Miss the window and the new capacity waits a year to earn its keep.

The challenge

A beverage producer built a greenfield bottling and distribution plant to serve a fast-growing regional market, having already committed volumes to distributors.

Imported high-speed lines, local permitting and a binational team needed a schedule that read the same in both languages.

Our role

Baseline Schedule Development CPM Scheduling Commissioning & Startup Scheduling Executive Reporting

Schedule at a glance

The whole job, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's date.

StartAug 2021

Duration23 months

HandoverJul 2023

Progress—

Protect productionPut equipment on the pathJoin the vendors upPlan trials as real work

How we kept it on course

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04

PHASE 01Protect production

Shutdowns placed in low-demand periods and planned to the hour with the plant team.

PHASE 02Put equipment on the path

Process equipment tracked from factory slot to setting on its foundation.

PHASE 03Join the vendors up

Line vendors, automation integrators and building trades held on one critical path.

PHASE 04Plan trials as real work

Line trials, food-safety validation and ramp-up scheduled with the same care as construction.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: did the project land where we said it would.

Result 01First bottle inside the window

Production began within the window promised to distributors.

Result 02Lines brought up in sequence

Installation was staged so each line came online as the previous one stabilized.

Result 03Reporting in two languages

Schedules and monthly reports were issued in English and Spanish.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Food & Beverage

01.02Baseline Schedule Development

Approved baseline schedules that capture scope, sequence and commitments precisely, and give both parties a reference point they have actually agreed.

01.01CPM Scheduling

Critical Path Method schedules with complete logic, grounded durations and a critical path you can manage by, report on and defend.

01.18Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

System-based commissioning and startup schedules that carry facilities from mechanical completion to reliable operation.

02.10Executive Reporting

Short, honest, decision-led reporting and live executive views for boards, CFOs, lenders and public stakeholders.

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