ABC - Western Michigan Chapter

Farmers Insurance Campus Expansion

Caledonia, Michigan

Story

The first new building is a new 100,000 square foot Print Distribution Center. This building houses a new 1500 GPM fire pump to protect its high bay storage and the existing Kraft Meadows 1 building. The next new building is a Kraft Meadows 2 building that sits between the existing Kraft Meadows 1 building and the Print Distribution Center. This building is a 275,000 square foot 3 story call center and training area. The training area has training props in it consisting of mobile homes, a stick built home, travel trailers, boats, motorcycles, and other vehicles. All of these props other than the vehicles required sprinklers throughout. This was a challenge to cover inside the travel trailers and mobile homes. Between the two buildings there are more than 2400 sprinklers and more than 6.5 miles of pipe. The new buildings are scheduled to open spring of 2011 and will create 1,600 new jobs.

Facts

  • Title: Farmers Insurance Campus Expansion
  • Location: Caledonia, Michigan
  • Phase: complete
  • Delivery method: Construction Management
  • Budget: $40 M
  • Size: 275000.0

Tags

  • office