Food & Beverage Facility Design & Construction

Building Your Operational Advantage

Where P&L, performance, and compliance are engineered as one.

The Australian food and beverage industry is in a systemic margin squeeze. Connected designs and builds high-performance facilities that do more than just house production—they solve your primary business challenges.

We engineer environments that integrate automation, guarantee compliance, and deliver a quantifiable operational outcome.

Why Partner With Connected?

  • Solve the "Automation Paradox" – We integrate accessible automation (like cobots) to solve your labor shortage and skills gap from Day 1.

  • Engineer for OEE – We don't just design for "flow"; we design for Overall Equipment Effectiveness, maximizing throughput and reducing downtime.

  • The Pharma-Grade Advantage – We apply 20 years of pharmaceutical data mastery (21 CFR Part 11) to make your facility FSMA 204 "audit-proof."

  • Metric-Driven Certainty – While others sell a process, we deliver a performance guarantee, modeling your ROI before construction begins.

Our Specialised Expertise

  • High-Care & Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Facilities – Validated zonal pressure cascades for provable contamination control.

  • Automation & Robotics Integration – Purpose-built environments for ASRS, palletizing, and processing robotics.

  • Dairy, Beverage & Bottling Plants – Integrated automated CIP systems delivering rapid ROI on water and energy.

  • Cold Storage & Automated Logistics – Data-rich distribution centres designed for supply chain resilience.

  • Process & Sustainability Upgrades – Decarbonisation projects, heat recovery (MVR), and biogas integration.

Our LECI Approach

  • Investigate – We assess feasibility, risks, and overall project scope.

  • Innovate – We develop compliant designs, coordinate workflows, and align budgets.

  • Implement – Building with precision and validating each phase to ensure success.

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Stop buying "process." Start investing in performance. Contact us to see how Connected can build the safe, efficient, and compliant environment your brand deserves.

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David Henderson

Client Relations

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Sam Henderson

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Business Development

Food & Beverage Facility Design FAQs

  • We don't just look at floor plans; we model your production logic. By integrating automation, minimizing material handling distances, and eliminating bottlenecks in the design phase, we engineer facilities that maximize availability, performance, and quality—the three pillars of OEE.

  • The paradox is that F&B manufacturers need automation to solve labor shortages but often lack the capital or skills to implement it. We design "automation-ready" facilities that allow for the modular integration of accessible tech—like collaborative robots (cobots)—which offer a low barrier to entry and rapid ROI, solving the labor gap without breaking the budget.

  • FSMA Rule 204 mandates that you provide electronic, sortable traceability records within 24 hours. Our expertise in pharmaceutical data integrity (specifically 21 CFR Part 11) allows us to design "Connected" facilities with validated building management systems that automatically log compliant, immutable data, making you "audit-proof" by design.

  • Automated CIP is one of the highest-return investments available. By automating chemical dosing, temperature, and flow, we often see clients achieve a full return on investment (ROI) in under 12 months through significant savings in water, energy, and chemicals, alongside increased production uptime.

  • Unlike traditional food factories that rely on physical walls for separation, we use our pharmaceutical background to design "pressure cascades." We engineer air handling systems that maintain a specific, measurable air pressure differential (e.g., >5 Pascals) to physically force air away from high-care zones, providing a scientifically validatable barrier against contamination.

  • The squeeze is the pressure between rising input costs (labor, energy) and the pricing power of major retailers. We design facilities specifically to lower your cost-per-unit. This includes integrating energy-saving heat recovery systems, reducing labor through efficient workflow design, and minimizing waste, directly restoring your operating margins.

  • We use simulation and process mapping during the "Investigate" phase of our LECI approach. We analyze your current manual workflows and model the impact of specific design interventions—such as automated palletizing or continuous processing—to provide a forecasted reduction in Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) requirements before you pour concrete.

  • We utilize strict containment protocols derived from our work in sterile pharmaceutical environments. We implement physical air-locked barriers, negative pressure zones for construction dust, and strict personnel gowning procedures to ensure your production continues safely without risk of contamination during upgrades or expansions.