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Baked Provisions builds to a budget
Pie manufacturer Baked Provisions reaped big savings by involving its plant design company, Total Construction, early on in a western Sydney construction project focused on a purpose-built facility that would help it reduce costs and grow with the market.
Baked Provisions uses premium ingredients in its products.
PREMIUM pie manufacturer Baked Provisions recently began manufacturing its premium chilled pies and pastries out of a new facility
at Prestons in Western Sydney.
The company sells its products to independent supermarkets and other retail outlets, and its emphasis is on using high quality fresh ingredients, and employing traditional home- style baking methods.
taken, and the company chose Total Construction to partner on the design and fitout of a nearby warehouse.
“The timeframe was short. We only gave them three months to complete the whole project,” Thai says.
Construction began in June last year, and the company began manufacturing in the new plant in December after the last of the equipment had arrived.
the cost
of the
project, and we still came in under budget at the
final build,” Blythman says.
The Sydney plant also has significant expansion capability – it currently only uses a quarter of the available space – so that it can grow with the market.
The cost-saving design features include the use of shipping containers as freezers.
“By analysing the process flows, we were able to reduce the amount of in-floor drainage required, so we didn’t have to dig up the slab,” Blythman says.
The facility is now also servicing Victoria, with fresh product shipped to Melbourne daily, according to Thai.
“Total Construction was very experienced and knowledgeable about the food industry, and we are really happy with facility, and thebudget,”Thaisays. ✷
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“ With some tweaks to the design, we were able to halve the cost of the project, and we still came in under budget... ”
Baked Provisions had manufactured in Perth for several years, but a few years ago decided to expand the business into NSW, so a distribution centre was opened at Prestons to test the market and see how the products
were received.
“We use premium ingredients,
and the feedback from customers is that our pastry is among the best out there,” says managing director Trieu Thai.
The range did well, he says, and so a decision to construct a purpose-builtfacilitywas
Having Total Construction involved early on in the project reduced its cost and also helped the company navigate the many food regulations and requirements, Thai says.
Rob Blythman, Total Construction’s national business manager said with ECI in mind, a workshop was carried out with all stakeholders to identify required efficiencies, confirm proposed outputs, and flag any potential limitations.
“With some tweaks to the design,wewereabletohalve
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