Dry Building Mixes Production Plant: Full Basic Design for an Industrial Facility

A dry building mixes production plant is not a neutral building that receives equipment later. The production process defines the building. For this Ukrainian industrial facility, TEBIN developed the full Basic Design as an integrated industrial package for production, storage, logistics, utilities, fire safety, administration, and site infrastructure.

The project includes a 50.4 m silo body, 17,284.5 m² of listed building area, and a 6.31 ha site within the design boundary. Those numbers are not decorative project statistics. They describe the physical consequence of a process where raw materials arrive, move through storage and preparation, become finished product, and leave the site through coordinated loading and dispatch.

Why did the production process lead the design?

The technological process led the design because every movement of material created a spatial, structural, or building-systems requirement. Raw materials arrive on site. Sand is stored, dried, screened, and transferred. Cement, ash, and other bulk materials are kept in silos. Finished product is produced, stored, loaded, and dispatched.

Each step changes the building. The silo body reaches 50.4 m because vertical storage and gravity-based material flow are part of the production logic. Warehouses require clear spans, vehicle access, loading zones, and safe internal movement. Conveyor galleries connect technological areas and create structural interfaces. Sand drying and screening zones define equipment positions, service access, ventilation needs, fire-safety measures, and maintenance space.

This is why the project had to be designed from the process outward. Architecture followed the production logic. Structures followed equipment loads, building heights, conveyor interfaces, and silo requirements. Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems followed routing, energy, water, gas, ventilation, and safety needs. Civil and General Plan decisions followed logistics, access roads, stormwater, utilities, and future construction phases.

What was included in the Basic Design scope?

TEBIN developed the Basic Design as one coordinated multidisciplinary package. The scope covered architecture, structures, General Plan, technology, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, water supply and sewage, electrical systems, automation, communication and security systems, gas supply, boiler house systems, fire protection, construction organization, and environmental assessment.

The package had to describe not only separate buildings, but also the logic between them. Production areas, storage buildings, silo structures, utility systems, roads, hardstanding, landscaping, fire access, external networks, and future development constraints all had to support the same industrial process.

The site figures show that this was a real production environment rather than a small technical building. The project boundary covered 6.31 ha, with production buildings, logistics areas, external networks, fire access, hardstanding, landscaping, and future development constraints coordinated as one industrial site.

How did BIM make the industrial logic visible?

Building Information Modeling was used to keep the whole industrial logic visible during design coordination. The model supported review of production equipment zones, structural elements, mechanical routes, electrical routes, utility corridors, fire-safety areas, external networks, access roads, and construction interfaces.

For a plant of this type, coordination is not only about avoiding geometric clashes. A route can affect maintenance access. A structural member can affect equipment replacement. A utility corridor can affect road levels, fire access, stormwater, and future phases. BIM made those relationships easier to review as one design and engineering system.

The result was not only a package of drawings. It was a technical basis for a working production environment where site layout, buildings, structures, systems, and utilities support the same process from raw material intake to finished product dispatch.

What do the utility figures show about the facility?

The annual utility demand confirms the industrial nature of the plant. The design basis included 12.428 GWh of electricity, 11.37 thousand m³ of cold water, 6.6 thousand m³ of domestic wastewater, 2,071 Gcal of heat, and 1.0438 million m³ of gas.

Those values matter because utilities are not secondary systems in production design. Electrical power, gas supply, water, heat, ventilation, drainage, automation, and fire protection are part of the production environment. Their routing and capacity influence the site layout, technical rooms, maintenance access, safety measures, and construction interfaces.

Project outcome

TEBIN's role was to convert the production logic into a coordinated Basic Design for an industrial facility. From site level to silo top, the design was dictated by production: material intake, preparation, storage, mixing, loading, dispatch, utilities, fire safety, access, and future development.

The project demonstrates how an industrial facility becomes coherent when process, architecture, structures, building systems, civil infrastructure, and BIM coordination are treated as one design and engineering task. The outcome was a technical basis for a working production plant, not a generic building shell.