Smokehouse rebuilt for energy efficiency

by Jonathan McGaha | April 3, 2011 12:00 am

The Quintal family watched their third-generation business burn to the ground over 2009 Labor Day weekend and were devastated. But as the smoke cleared, they recognized an opportunity to rebuild it better for future generations and better for the environment. The facility, Oscar’s Adirondack Smokehouse in Warrensburgh, N.Y., is where all of Oscar’s meat and cheese products are prepared, seasoned, smoked, stored, sold, shipped and savored.

Completed in March 2010, American Buildings Co., Eufaula, Ala., supplied the Rigid Frame metal building system, roof and wall panels. The project is made up of three buildings-the processing, cooler and equipment. The processing building is 105 feet long by 65 feet wide with 16-foot eave heights; the cooler is 34 feet long by 52 feet wide with 15 1/12-foot eave heights; and the equipment building is 18 1/6 feet long by 22 feet wide with 15 1/12-foot eave heights, making up a total of 8,990 square feet. The new processing building is an M1 rigid frame that houses the three massive smokers that can process 1,500 pounds of meat at a time, 1,500 square feet of walk-in coolers and freezers, and the famous and friendly meat counter and enlarged retail area. An adjoining portion of the original foundation was salvaged and retrofit for another 2,200 square feet of pre-engineered structure that houses the shipping and receiving and equipment storage. The front sidewall has a continuous 6 feet at eave canopy, and the daily delivery and pick-up carriers appreciate the 15- by 32-foot endwall canopy that offers protection from the elements of the upstate New York seasons.

To maintain the Adirondack appeal, the high eave wall, or front of the building, was conventionally framed with light-gauge metal studs to a laterally reinforced spandrel beam at 14 feet and fit-up with a shingled roof walkway canopy, lighthouse red horizontal clapboard siding and a granite veneer water table. The remainder of the perimeter walls is finished with 3-inch thick insulated panels. To add to the energy-efficient building envelope, Greer, S.C.-based Guardian Building Products’ R-32 Purlin Glide insulation system was used under American’s Standing Seam 360 roof panels with a Polar White finish lending a Solar Reflectance Index value of 81. The ceilings were fully lined with American’s Long Span III panels-in Polar White in the processing area and Galvalume in the retail area-to emulate the original smokehouse ceiling.

Additionally, an open loop geothermal system was installed to facilitate all of the HVAC and refrigeration needs of the building. Munter Enterprises Inc., Middle Grove, N.Y. and Paone Architecture P.C., Saratoga Springs, N.Y. were the architects. Munter Enterprises Inc. was also the general contractor.

American Buildings Co., www.americanbuildings.com[1]
Guardian Building Products, www.guardianbp.com[2]

Source URL: https://www.metalarchitecture.com/projects/oscar-smokehouse/

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