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Greater Chicago Food Depository
Chicago, Illinois
The Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) is a non-profit organization that receives donations of food and distributes as much as 80 million pounds of food products to charitable organizations in the greater Chicago area. Epstein architects, engineers and material handling engineers worked with the GCFD to develop a program building prototype for a generic 200,000 square foot building on a site location in the Chicagoland area. Epstein also developed and assisted in a site selection and evaluation process to determine the best optimum site location in response to program needs and functional and operations requirements for GCFD, performed a site analysis study and developed a new site-specific plan.
The 217,000 square foot building plan consisted of two-story office space, warehouse space with both -10° and 35° storage, salvage production area, raw salvage and repack area, an operations area consisting of an agency shipping center and store, enclosed shipping dock area with 10 loading docks, 13 exterior docks and 2 drive-in docks. The facility also provides a community teaching kitchen with classrooms and multi-use areas.
Epstein prepared a request for proposal document that consisted of a complete design development package including design criteria, and drawings for all disciplines as well as general design guidelines for a design-build contract. Epstein evaluated over 45 design-build candidates. A final evaluation from a short list and interview process was performed by Epstein for the selection of a successful design build team. Lastly, Epstein assisted GCFD through the construction process as program manager to assist in the contract delivery for this very important and successful project.
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