Williamsburg, Virginia

Corporate Dining and Training Facility
                                                                                   HR ACRE Best Industrial Building Award Winner!                                                                                This brewery and packaging plant employs a staff of 6,000 people from the community on a 24/7 operations mode with three shifts per day. As a food/beverage manufacturer in an industrial setting, they are highly conscious of their impact on the community and the importance of educating their employees on safety, health, and welfare topics.

Design issues considered the "corporate" environment, image, employee morale, and the mission and future of the brewery. In each of these areas, it was critical to the brewery that it have the maximum amount of control of its ability to create the type of corporate culture and image it needs to stimulate and maintain a high morale amongst all staff. The physical architectural environment was determined to be critical to sustain such and undertaking.

Design Factors:

	Monumental character capable of standing on its own in front of a 1.5 million square foot existing packaging building and brew house
	Facility component is the focal point for employee training, safety awareness, information gathering and other learning opportunities
	Dining Facility component is the focal point for employee social interaction and positive architectural public perceptions
	Facility is approximately 13,000 S.F.
	Steel frame for the open curtain wall dining area and masonry bearing construction for the kitchen and training areas were both used for construction
	Energy saving and sustainable design considerations were incorporated
	Both union and non-union employees are trained, dine and socialize together
	True sense of corporate investment and care