Brander engineers provide evaluation, design, and project management services for the repair and rehabilitation of existing structures and buildings and the construction of new buildings and building expansions. Over 70 percent of Brander services are directed toward projects in pulp and paper facilities throughout the United States. Over the years, a wide variety of facility projects have been successfully completed, each adding to the knowledge and expertise of Brander engineers.
Below is a general list of typical pulp and paper facility projects:
Evaluations:
- Building expansions/additions
- Deteriorated concrete floor slabs and framing
- Deteriorated precast panels and precast channel slabs
- Water infiltration
- Deteriorated wood and masonry components
- Corroded structural steel
- Overhead bridge cranes and hoist systems
- Floor systems for new equipment, lift truck, or storage loads
- Roofing and wall panel systems
- Impact damage
Design:
- Building rehabilitation and repair
- Building expansions and additions
- Demolition of paper machines and facility buildings according to building code and OSHA standards.
- Roof and wall panel rehabilitation
- New roofing systems and roof structure replacement
- Overhead bridge cranes and hoist systems
- Mezzanines for storage and equipment
- Case and product conveyor supports
- Unwind stands and case packer installations
- Elevator replacement
- Machine and stock chests
- Bleach towers
- Reinforcement of deteriorated pulpers
- Machine roll handling systems
- Floor reinforcement for new equipment, lift truck, or storage loads
- Ramp installations
- Roll racks
- Road and parking lot repairs
- Floor replacements
Brander's success with pulp and paper projects is the result of the use of solid engineering principles and a project delivery system designed to easily integrate into a facilities existing project management system. The Brander project delivery system utilizes a phased approach that helps coordinate the interaction between owner's personnel, engineers, suppliers, and contractors and relies on cooperation between the facility's personnel and Brander engineers from project conception to completion.
Brander understands the need to avoid unforeseen project changes that result in extra costs due to the interruption of normal operations, and to provide a project that meets the needs of the facility. It is our understanding of these important key concepts that enables us to provide our pulp and paper clients with the quality of services they require.
