This corporate campus was designed on an 8.8-acre site as part of a larger 39-acre mixed-use development at the northwest corner of Willow and Sanders Road in accordance with the conceptual site plan prepared by our engineering and surveying team.

Manhard Consulting was retained to provide complete civil engineering & surveying services for this site featuring the 440,000 square-foot Astellas Pharma US headquarters. Manhard also prepared the development plan for Phase 2 mixed-use development which consisted of:

• A proposed 90,000 square-foot grocery store
• Two retail buildings totaling 12,500 square-foot
• Building pad preparation for a health club, bank, & childcare facility
• 4-story residential condominium complex and pharmacy
• Parking lots for all buildings

The project was completed under budget and received a LEED® Gold rating.

Manhard Consulting was retained to provide complete civil engineering & survey services for this site featuring over 626,000 sf building on +/-225 acres of a master planned business park located at 1750 Bridge Drive in Waukegan, Illinois.

Existing office complex dating back to the 1950’s when the development of the park started. Variety of underground utilities and challenges throughout construction and design including expansion of a man-made lake for detention.

Achieving a balance for earthwork on the site, reuse of existing materials on site by crushing asphalt and concrete from previous buildings, pre and post construction BFE analyses reviewed and approved by Lake County SMC, saved the client $1,000,000 dollars by excluding isolated wetlands through extensive research to find previously issued permits.
A 90 acre foot lake in the middle of the site with bike path and various green infrastructure and BMPs associated with each individual lot as they are developed.

Tippmann Construction of Fort Wayne, IN was hired by Chobani, Inc. to act as general contractor and charged with the formidable task of constructing the world’s largest yogurt production facility in an unprecedented timeframe. Knowing they needed a consultant with the ability to perform, Tippmann Construction contracted with Manhard Consulting to complete the site design of this nearly one-million square foot facility situated on 200-acres of land in Twin Falls, ID. The Manhard team began design of the site in November 2011 for a ground-breaking on December 17, 2011. The aggressive design-build schedule required close coordination between the Manhard team, the contractor and various other consultants involved in the design of the production facility building. On December 19, 2012, 362 days after the initial ground-breaking, the world’s largest yogurt plant was officially opened for production.

The scope of services for this project included site master planning consultation, grading and earthwork analysis, infrastructure design, and storm water management. In an effort to reduce construction time, Manhard utilized the revolutionary site development software called SITEOPS. Employing this new technology allowed Manhard to provide a grading design that minimized the volume of earth moved, thereby reducing the time and costs associated with preparing the site for the start of building erection.

The Manhard team’s communication and coordination with contractors and consultants spread across the country proved a vital piece in keeping this project on track and on schedule.

Manhard Consulting, Ltd. provided preliminary and final design services, surveying services, and stormwater management for this 155-acre multi-phase development. In addition, Manhard provided design and construction assistance services to minimize the impact of the increased traffic flow that this development would generate, including widening the adjacent State Route 60 to include dual left-turn lanes and signalization into the development. The Manhard site plan developed for this corporate campus specified the maximum building height and included a natural screen to shield structures from surrounding residential areas.

A major objective of this project was balancing site development with the natural theme and appeal of the landscape and the surrounding residential areas. The existing site included forest preserves, water features, a wetland, and a 1.5-mile nature trail, which created a worker-friendly atmosphere. To help preserve the natural ambience of the site and the surrounding residential areas, Manhard used underground facilities whenever possible. A 600,000- gallon underground reservoir and a pumping station, including two 1,500-gpm pumps and two 100- gpm pumps with a chlorination system, supply potable water and fire protection for the campus. This eliminated the need for an on-site water tower that would not have fit in with the surrounding large lot residential area. In addition, two large stormwater detention ponds connected via an underground pipeline and fed by a natural creek were designed to meet provide on-site stormwater management and mesh with site’s natural ambience and appeal.

Manhard was retained by Chicago based HSA Commercial Real Estate to provide full civil engineering and survey services on this 757,880 SF industrial development located on 46.21-acres on Mound and Frontage Roads in Shorewood, IL.

The building features a 32-foot clear height, 50-foot by 52-foot column spacing, an ESFR sprinkler system, 56 exterior docks and four drive-in doors. It’s efficient rear-load configuration makes it perfect for e-commerce, light manufacturing and warehouse users. The site also supports optimal truck maneuverability with 12 trailer parking stalls along with on-site parking for 240 vehicles.

Manhard provided engineering and surveying services to Harbour Contractors for their design build contract for a new operations facility for LyondellBasell in Morris, IL.

The $55 million project will feature a new free standing 89,000 square-foot centralized operation center. This new state-of-the-art facility will consolidate employees under one roof. The new building will house the plant’s new control room, maintenance shops, administrative offices, and testing laboratories.

Covering nearly 670 acres, the Morris Complex is one of the largest petrochemical facilities in the Midwest. With more than 400 employees and contractors onsite, the plant is a very strong economic engine within the Grundy County region. The Morris Facility produces polyethylene plastic resins that service as the building blocks for countless products. These resins help create the leak-proof containers, protective food packaging, and safe children’s toys that are essential for today’s modern lifestyle.

Manhard provided full entitlement management and site design services for this 138,000 SF Warehouse facility in the McKinley Park community on the Southwest Side of Chicago.

In addition, we were tasked with responsibility for zoning approvals, overall project design and construction schedule, permitting services and zoning code review for this project which resides in a Planned Manufacturing District.

Manhard’s scope included overall project management, civil engineering, landscape architecture, surveying, permit expediting and traffic engineering. We managed a rigorous City of Chicago approval process and obtained approvals with the Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Stormwater, Fire Protection Bureau and Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities.

Lastly, Manhard value engineered by reconfiguring the site plan early in the process to minimize impacts related to existing utility infrastructure and environmental constraints

Polaris MDC is a 475,000 square foot distribution facility located on 37 acres in Fernley, Nevada. It is located within the Nevada Pacific Industrial Park. This facility will be Polaris’ main west coast distribution point for all their parts and accessories. The site was designed to accommodate a 250,000 square foot expansion in the near future. Careful thought was given to the placement of utilities and grading so that the expansion could be done at minimal cost.

This facility has 50 truck docks with an additional 50 spaces for trailer parking. 150 employee and visitor parking stalls were provided. The site has four access points. The two main truck entryways required that a commercial collector street (100’ right-of-way) be constructed.

The contractor moved over 120,000 cubic yards of dirt with over-excavation requirements under all structural sections due to poor soil conditions. Two large detention basins were required to detain the developed peak flows. Grading design used curb cuts and drainage swales to reduce the amount of storm drain structures. Landscape berms with five to one side slopes were provided for screening of the site as well as areas to place excess material.

Manhard was faced with the challenge of a short timeframe to produce construction documents. This was a Design/Build project, so keeping up with changes and coordination with other consultants was a hurdle to overcome. One access point on DNOT right-of-way which entailed additional plans and permits. However, even with those challenges, the project was designed and built in one year meeting the owner’s expectation. Additionally, overall project costs were below budget.

Construction of 3 state of the art speculative industrial buildings totaling nearly 750,000 square feet, with over 600 employee parking spaces, 115 trailer parking stalls, and over 7 million gallons of stormwater detention.

Modeling of Silver Creek was necessary to obtain approval through the IDNR, FEMA, and the MWRD for construction of the 3rd building.

Services included all preliminary and final engineering design, stormwater management design, roadway improvements for a lane widening on Franklin Avenue, coordination of a new traffic signal on Franklin Avenue, full permitting, topographic and boundary surveys, as well as a final plat of subdivision. Extremely tight schedule that went from conceptual planning to full construction in just over a year, expected construction completion in the fall of 2018.

Manhard Consulting was retained BY CORE Construction to provide engineering and surveying services for this 720,000 square foot warehouse addition to an existing 415,000 square foot facility.

Services provided included: topographic survey, construction staking, preliminary engineering, traffic and parking study, sanitary sewer design and a mass grading design.

Provided consulting services to UPS for their Chicago Area Consolidated Hub (CACH) facility in Hodgkins, Illinois.  Assisted UPS in planning and evaluating expansion and redevelopment options to meet their evolving logistics needs.  Manhard provided topographic surveys, master planning, design development, preliminary & final engineering, permitting, bid coordination and construction services in the expansion of tractor and trailer parking facilities within the facility.

The 240+ acre CACH facility was initially developed in the 1990’s and in need of modifications and expansion to meet UPS needs. The land locked site footprint did not allow for additional property acquisition so unique solutions had to be made. One expansion option developed involved paving over the existing open water basins, providing almost 50 acre-feet of underground storage vaults.  Another solution involved constructing a new parking facility on a bluff elevated 50 feet above the main facility.  In order to provide access to the elevated bluff, a serpentine internal road and new access improvements off Willow Springs Road were designed and constructed.  All improvement projects required evaluating and modifying the original stormwater management facilities to meet current MWRDGC ordinance requirements.  

Manhard’s expertise and capability to efficiently develop potential solutions and associated budgets provided UPS with the information needed to fully evaluate expansion options, costs and benefits resulting in innovative cost effective solutions to their evolving logistic need.

Manhard Consulting was retained to provide surveying, civil engineering and stormwater management services for a 197,000 SF industrial warehouse and office facility in Waukegan, Illinois.

The project was an expansion of an existing building which required thorough coordination between General Contractor, Architect and Engineer. The expansion also created some grading and building challenges to be at the same finished floor, connect existing parking lots and provide accessible access to new portion of the building.

Manhard successfully obtained permitting in less than four months from start of design.

A retaining wall was designed to maximize ADA accessibility. Manhard was success in improving existing drainage due to the challenge of matching the low elevation finished floor on the building to the north.

Manhard Consulting provided civil engineering, surveying and landscape architecture service for the logistics center in Wilmington, Illinois. Elion is a 2,000-acre, rail-served intermodal park with room for 14 million square feet of industrial, warehousing and logistics building s is being developed by Elion Partners. This is one of the largest industrial parks built in the United States within the past five years.

Project components designed by Manhard include:  three primary roadways, regional sanitary sewer/lift station and a 1,000,000-gallon elevated water tower.  Also included is a relocation of a main tributary to the Kankakee River.  The stream relocation entails a total of 11,900 feet of naturalized, meandering stream length.  In addition, stormwater detention facilities are planned throughout the development to provide necessary detention and compensatory storage for impacts to the existing floodplain.  Software utilized to analyze the stormwater management aspects of the project include HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, and EPASWMM.

Recent projects include 1,600,000 square foot Michelin Facility; a 750,000 square foot Batory Foods Facility and Rail Served Freezer, a 1,500,000 square foot General Mills Facility and Refrigerated Buildings for Consolidated Distribution Corporation.

The Bristol Business Park project is set to be one of the largest scale industrial developments on which Manhard has provided services. The development consists of 2.2 million sf of industrial space in six buildings on 150 acres on Wisconsin’s southeast border.

Manhard is providing due diligence, entitlement coordination, surveying, preliminary engineering, preliminary landscape architecture, mass grading, overall site infrastructure, final engineering, permitting, stormwater management, offsite utility design, highway improvements, and construction staking, observation and assistance for the project.

This project consisted of Phase 1 of an industrial corporate build-out at the Canterfield Corporate Campus site on the east side of route 31 connected to the intersection of IL-31 and Canterfield Parkway in the Village of West Dundee, Illinois with Transwestern Development Company and Triumph Construction Services Corporation. Phase 1 consisted of the development of an approximately 250,000 SF spec industrial building on Lot 1 and one 250,000 SF Build-To-Suit Industrial building on Lot 2 with a R.O.W. expansion of Canterfield Parkway to service both building sites and IL-31 Signalization design. The Manhard Consulting Team was tasked with performing on-site civil engineering design, infrastructure engineering design, master stormwater, surveying, and landscape architecture services from the initial land planning and entitlements phase all the way through construction.

This project offered unique challenges being the first phase of a master development in understanding how the first phase works with the surrounding master development land and vision and ensuring that design decisions made in this initial phase have a positive impact on the overall master development strategy and allow for ease of future development on-site. Master stormwater design and considerations were a key component to the design process, along with working closely with the Landowner and development team on the overall master design vision, and closely with Village staff and the construction team on implementation throughout the design, approval, and construction process.

Manhard was retained to provide civil engineering, entitlement assistance, permitting, land surveying and landscape architecture on this 140,000 square foot logistics center located in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood. Our teams were able to meet challenging entitlement and permitting schedules to keep the project on track. The project has various challenges including planning for multiple phases of construction due to an extended lease on part of the property. Additionally, the site was a brownfield, and our teams provided detailed earthwork assistance, taking into consideration environmental constraints and stormwater regulations. Our stormwater solutions included a combination at grade basin and underground vault to optimize cost to meet client’s desired site plan.

Manhard’s expedited design and permitting schedule allowed for construction to start on time. Our unique earthwork and stormwater design saved in excess of $1,000,000 in construction cost.

This project won The Chicago Greater Food Depository Real Estate Award for Industrial Project of the Year in 2022.

Manhard Consulting assisted R+L Carriers to improve their existing service center located at 4204 IH 10 Frontage Road in San Antonio, Texas through a full-service effort. The project was initiated from a concept site plan from the client which quickly required due diligence studies and site planning to maximize the property’s use. Once the site plan was finalized, Manhard completed the final engineering design and secured permits through multiple agencies at both the local and state level.

During the permitting stage, it was determined that a particular scope of the improvements would require entitlements work. Manhard led the effort and revised the drawings to strategically show the improvement as future, which allowed the critical path construction to continue. Once all permits were secured, the rezoning process was initiated and ultimately successful after several months of cooperation with the city and surrounding residents.

Upon approval of the engineering plans, Manhard’s expertise was required to assist R+L Carriers and the general contractor in developing a phasing plan that would allow operations to continue, with minimal disruption, throughout the duration of construction. Despite the complex schedule, permitting, phasing, and entitlements, the project was a success and R+L Carriers is continuing to serve the San Antonio market from this facility.

Manhard was retained by Conor Commercial Real Estate to provide complete civil engineering services for this two building, 198,000 square-foot speculative industrial development.

Building one is 135,200 sf and building two is 62,400 sf. The property features 258 surface parking spaces and 12 trailer parking stalls and 48 dock doors between the two buildings.

Services included site planning for city approval, platting, and final civil engineering design, as well as franchise utility coordination and construction administration.  Due to its location along the I-30 highway corridor and across city limit boundaries, this site also required concurrent platting and engineering approvals from the City of Dallas and TxDOT.