Construction Expertise in Cold Storage and Specialty Facilities
December 5, 2025
Building for Precision, Performance and Safety
Messer Construction Co. is a trusted partner in the design and delivery of cold storage, freezer, ambient facilities, and GMP warehouses. These highly specialized projects require more than just construction expertise. They demand an understanding of nuanced challenges.
- Temperature Integrity and Insulation: Ensuring tight thermal envelopes and vapor barriers that prevent condensation, ice buildup and energy loss.
- Complex MEP Systems: Designing and coordinating refrigeration, HVAC, and humidity control systems to maintain consistent product quality.
- Operational Continuity: Phased construction approaches to minimize downtime in live facilities.
- Regulatory and GMP Compliance: Building to the highest standards of safety, hygiene, and quality for food and pharmaceutical operations.
- Safety Leadership: Proactive planning and field execution to protect both workers and ongoing operations.
Our Approach: Lessons Learned, Applied
We’ve developed proven methods to deliver on these complex projects.
- Safety First: Partnering with clients to align safety values and implementing proactive interventions to ensure Zero Injury workplaces.
- Early Collaboration: Working with clients and design teams from the start to identify potential conflicts and solutions.
- Constructability Reviews: Applying our lessons learned from previous projects to anticipate and resolve issues before they become challenges.
- Flexibility: Adapting to evolving operational needs—whether it’s expanding freezer capacity, upgrading utilities, or adding GMP spaces.
Project Spotlight: Ditsch Pretzel
Messer partnered with Ditsch Pretzel to transform an existing Costco building into a modern 185,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art pretzel processing facility.
Key features included:
- Production lines, cold storage, administration space, and warehouse areas seamlessly integrated under one roof.
- Multiple building expansions to house freezer facilities, shipping areas, utilities, and offices.
- Our proactive safety leadership was empowered to exercise stop-work authority, even on activities outside our contract, reinforcing Ditsch’s confidence that we share their Zero Injury values.
With Messer, you’re not just building a facility—you’re building a resilient, high-performing operation designed to meet today’s challenges and tomorrow’s growth.
Messer’s intervention through stop-work authority prevented a potentially dangerous situation. Messer’s willingness to step in and manage the situation effectively not only safeguarded our employees, but also reinforced our confidence in Messer’s capabilities within complex food manufacturing facilities.
We have a lot of unique requirements, and Messer collaborated closely with our team to ensure mutual success.
