Quality Fast Foods

A turnkey plan, design, and build project for a new Quality Fast Foods facility, as part of the Premium Brands family. Coldbox delivered the 67,000-square-foot Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) compliant production facility, which included freezer, cooler, cold dock, staff welfare, and office space. The facility also housed multiple processing and food packaging rooms, including raw material processing, cooking, seasoning, and marination areas, as well as dedicated packaging zones for vacuum sealing, modified atmosphere packaging, and labeling.

As the design-builder, Coldbox managed all architectural, mechanical, structural, electrical, and fire suppression disciplines, including site plan approval and permit acquisition. Recognizing Premium Brand’s commitment to environmentally sustainable operations as part of its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments, the project featured many energy-saving components. Sustainable solutions included high-speed rollup traffic doors to minimize heat transfer; an energy-efficient refrigeration system employing scroll compressors, electronically commutated motors, electronic control valves, and programmable logic controls; and a combined rooftop refrigeration unit that reduces the length of the refrigerant piping and ultimately the amount of refrigerant used, resulting in a highly efficient system. A free cooling system was also employed, cooling some of the space using filtered outdoor air instead of mechanical refrigeration during colder weather.