We're in the process of planning for the installation of our brewery in the outskirts of Paris, France. I'm looking for some design help for doing our floors. Does anyone have an architect or engineer that they've had good experience with?
My tentative plan was to run a trench drain 4 meters (1 meter left of the fermenters) out from the wall in the right side of the drawing below for draining the brew house, HLT/CLT, CIP, fermenters and bottling line then redo the slab with a 2% slope running from the right side to the left side of the drawing to send water towards the drain. I'm wondering if not having a second slope to the left of the drain is going to make my life miserable (any hose spray that makes it to the other side of the drain will puddle in the otherwise flat floor). Also, eventually, we'd like to stick a second row of fermenters to the left of the existing row (on the other side of the drain). Would you pre-prepare this space at the same time that we have the rest of the floor done, or is it reasonable to leave this until we are ready to order the additional FVs a few years from now?
Thanks,
Anthony Baraff
My tentative plan was to run a trench drain 4 meters (1 meter left of the fermenters) out from the wall in the right side of the drawing below for draining the brew house, HLT/CLT, CIP, fermenters and bottling line then redo the slab with a 2% slope running from the right side to the left side of the drawing to send water towards the drain. I'm wondering if not having a second slope to the left of the drain is going to make my life miserable (any hose spray that makes it to the other side of the drain will puddle in the otherwise flat floor). Also, eventually, we'd like to stick a second row of fermenters to the left of the existing row (on the other side of the drain). Would you pre-prepare this space at the same time that we have the rest of the floor done, or is it reasonable to leave this until we are ready to order the additional FVs a few years from now?
Thanks,
Anthony Baraff
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