McCownGordon’s headquarters is located in Kansas City, Missouri with offices in Manhattan and Wichita, Kansas and Dallas, Texas. In these four offices we have 600+ employees and our Industrial & Manufacturing team serves clients across the entire United States.
HISTORY & CORE VALUES
Founded in 1999, McCownGordon started with the motivation to offer the industry a different kind of firm—one that focused on the client. Our founders built a team who believed in doing business transparently and one that valued building long-term relationships.
FOUNDED ON VALUES
INTEGRITY
Honesty and accountability drive everything we do.
PERFORMANCE
We hire the best and align goals to deliver high-quality, original solutions.
RELATIONSHIPS
We listen, communicate and connect with openness and transparency.
PROTECTING WHAT MATTERS MOST SAFETY
Our commitment to safety extends beyond the projects we undertake; it encompasses the core value of our organization— Relationships. People are our most valuable assets, whether they be associates, trade partners, clients, or community members. Our“Safety Never Stops” culture and mindset does not accept the status quo—all injuries are unacceptable and preventable. Safety is not merely a department’s responsibility; it is a shared obligation held by everyone involved. Through a cohesive partnership, our safety team trains and supports project teams.
Elevating safety beyond awareness, our award-winning safety program stands out for its distinctive approach. Through a collaborative team effort, we not only identify potential risks but also build comprehensive plans to effectively mitigate them. Every near miss is reported in a firm-wide program, serving as a vital tool in preventing future incidents across the company.
What sets our proactive commitment apart is the ability to uncover trends, enabling our teams to offer targeted training and implement measures that prevent potential incidents. A higher frequency of reported near misses underscores our company’s commitment to safety, sending a powerful message to all involved about our safety-centric culture.
Adding to our program’s uniqueness is our utilization of the hierarchy of controls to reduce exposure. While the mandatory use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) remains an integral part of our safety protocols, it is positioned as the ultimate safeguard. By starting risk reduction at the highest level, we significantly diminish the overall exposure, ensuring a safe job for all stakeholders.
• SITE-SPECIFIC SAFETY PLANNING
• SAFETY ORIENTATION
• DAILY TOOLBOX TALKS
• PRE-TASK PLANNING
• REGULAR AUDITS & INSPECTIONS
• NEAR MISS REPORTING
• PROACTIVE TRENDING
CAPACITY + REACH
We are licensed to operate in 35 states, ensuring seamless execution of projects across a wide geographic area. Whether you’re planning a new facility, an expansion, or a specialized project, our team is ready to deliver with expertise and efficiency. No matter where your next opportunity arises, we have the certifications, experience, and resources to make it happen.
STRONG
RELATIONSHIPS
Our long history of work with SPECIALTY TRADE PARTNER AND SUPPLIER BUSINESSES ensures the right team is selected for your complex projects.
TEAL INDICATES LICENSED STATES
DELIVERING FOOD AND BEVERAGE FACILITIES SIMILAR EXPERIENCE
From validation requirements to the latest equipment advancements, the food and beverage industry is constantly changing. Our team of facility, process, refrigeration and packaging engineers and construction experts stays current on the latest trends and regulations to ensure your project is a success. Whether your plans include building a new facility, adding a new line, or expanding capacity, our team specializes in efficiencies, ROI and intimation to best enhance your production.
Fully-versed in state and federal regulations our manufacturing team understands the numerous safety and quality protocols that go into processing and packaging food and beverages. We use the latest technology to ensure equipment is installed and operating correctly and efficiently to deliver safe, quality products that millions can enjoy.
PROUD TO SERVE THE INDUSTRY’S TOP CLIENTS
OUR PEOPLE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE CLIENT FOCUSED TEAM
McCownGordon brings together top design and construction professionals, each highly specialized and committed to collaboration. Our proposed team offers deep expertise in delivering complex projects for food and beverage clients that blend innovation with creative vision—while staying on budget. Your key team members are fully committed and will remain engaged throughout every phase.
JUSTIN HAMILTON VP, INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING
JEFF LARSON DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
AMANDA TRAN DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING
BEN KILLINGSWORTH DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS
RYAN KHATIB PROJECT EXECUTIVE
FREDDY ALLISON VP, OPERATIONS 200+ YEARS OF COMBINED MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE
$8B+ GREENFIELD & RETROFIT PROJECTS DELIVERED
AARON WINTER MARKET LEADER
CHRIS HILLMAN GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
TIM MARQUITZ SR PROJECT MANAGER
JAMIE BAILEY VP, CLIENT STRATEGY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
ELI HASKETT DIRECTOR, PRECON
TRAVIS MILLER SAFETY MANAGER
50+ PROJECTS ($1B+) WITH SUSTAINABILITY RECOGNITIONS
DEEP FOOD & BEVERAGE PROJECT EXPERIENCE
WHY MCCOWNGORDON WE PARTNER TO CREATE VALUE
TURNKEY DELIVERY
TURNKEY INSTALLATIONS
Our team of facility, process, and packaging experts is here to help you with your next project. From initial concept to your product coming off the line, partnering with McCownGordon provides full turnkey installations and all the solutions in between for your food and beverage manufacturing facility.
PRECONSTRUCTION
Our manufacturing preconstruction goes beyond estimating—it includes site selection, feasibility, financing, and ROI analysis. With meticulous planning, we ensure cost certainty and project success from the start.
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS
We leverage cutting-edge technology such as Procore, Autodesk, Real-Time Estimating, BIM, Navisworks, and advanced 3D laser scanning to optimize efficiency, reduce costs and save valuable time for our clients.
TRADE PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS
We work with local, regional and national trade partners, and we can tap relationships from other areas when needed. We have the ability to select the right trade partners based on the specialized nature of our clients’ projects, ensuring that we bring the right expertise to solve complex problems.
CURATED EQUIPMENT PROCUREMENT
Our equipment decisions prioritize our clients’ needs. We design custom solutions that revolve around product requirements, emphasizing efficiencies, ROI and safety, regardless of vendor affiliations.
BEST-IN-CLASS CLIENT EXPERIENCE
INDUSTRY LEADING TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT
ACCURATE BUDGETS & VALUE ENGINEERING EXPERTISE AND CREATING
DETAILED OPTIONS FOR LOGISTICS & SEQUENCING
INDUSTRY LEADING APPROACH TO RISK MANAGEMENT
EXPERIENCE WITH INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES & REQUIREMENTS
FOOD & BEVERAGE QUALITY COMMITMENT
McCownGordon understands the importance of quality design and construction in food and beverage manufacturing facilities. With more than 85 years of food and beverage experience our manufacturing leadership team ensures a proactive quality assurance and control process so you can deliver a safe product to consumers.
WALMART
BEEF PROCESSING FACILITY
McCownGordon provided design-build services for this 330,000-square-foot state-of-the-art, high-volume caseready production facility. The facility combines the latest in meat production design with the best packaging and material handling systems. This facility includes raw material storage, track and trace, wet and dry processing, palletizing, and finish product handling systems. It also features cold storage (freezer -10F and blast freezer -45F) and equipment for cutting/packaging beef. Processing up to 55 million pounds of case-ready beef per year, the facility is designed to operate two shifts per day with a cleaning shift preparing the plant for the next day’s operations. With a focus on sustainability, the team incorporated energy-efficient systems into the design as well as prioritized sustainable construction activities. Located in Olathe, Kansas the facility was complete as scheduled in June 2025.
CASE STUDY
Production Equipment Analysis
Faced with a goal of achieving 55 million pounds of annual production capacity, Walmart needed a solution that balanced efficiency with future growth. By leveraging deep analysis and innovative design strategies, we streamlined their operations—reducing production lines from seven to six—while maintaining full performance. We built in flexibility for the future, ensuring space and capacity to add two additional lines as demand scales. This approach delivered immediate cost savings of $10 million and positioned the client for long-term success.
PROJECT FACTS
LOCATION Olathe, KS
CLIENT Walmart
SIZE 330,000 SF
DELIVERY Design-Build
CONSTRUCTION COST $240,000,000
TEXAS
700K SF | $300M
ASRS SYSTEM
DESIGN-BUILD DELIVERY
CONFIDENTIAL
COLD STORAGE PROGRAM
ARIZONA
800K SF | $350M
ASRS SYSTEM
CMAR DELIVERY
BIOFUEL EXPANSION
MGP identified an opportunity to repurpose a previously closed spirits plant into a biofuel manufacturing facility. This adaptive reuse project involves converting the existing structure to support biofuel production, leveraging waste starch from MGP’s food ingredients operations in Atchison, KS.
MGP engaged McCownGordon to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of the facility. Utilizing extensive laser scanning and 360-degree photography, McCowngordon created a detailed 3D model to inform the design and integration of new components necessary for the biofuel production process.
This EPC project aimed to transform an underutilized asset into a productive biofuel manufacturing facility, contributing to MGP’s sustainability goals and operational efficiency.
CASE STUDY
Advanced Laser Scanning Solution
At MGP’s biofuel expansion, McCownGordon’s in-house virtual design and construction team deployed cuttingedge laser scanning technology to capture existing conditions, enabling the design team to coordinate the new work with precision before construction began. Self-performing the scan using the NavVis VLX mobile scanner,our team delivered a comprehensive point cloud model that transformed the project’s coordination process. Working in close partnership with the design team and key project stakeholders, our team provided a datarich digital foundation that allowed nearly full MEP coordination during the design phase. This proactive approach minimized potential conflicts and delays, The result was a streamlined construction process built on accurate existing conditions data and thorough upfront planning. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION ENABLES SEAMLESS DESIGN COORDINATION AND CONSTRUCTION EFFICIENCY
PROJECT FACTS
LOCATION Atchison, KS
CLIENT MGP
REFERENCE Matt Greeno (Formerly with MGP) | (913) 360-5207
SIZE 20,000 SF
DELIVERY Engineer, Procure & Construct (EPC)
CONSTRUCTION COST $18,500,000
SERVICES Laser Scanning, Architecture & Engineering, Construction
WET PET FOOD MANUFACTURING FACILITY
In order to increase production capacity, the client needed to renovate an existing packaging materials warehouse for new retort equipment. Installed eight new batch retorts and supporting equipment (mass can conveyors and new dedicated can dryer) that matched the capacity of the existing production system (3,000 cans per minute) and allowed for future capacity increases at the plant.
PROJECT FACTS
SIZE 18,000 SF renovation inside an existing 330,000 SF operational facility
CLIENT Confidential
CAPITAL INVESTMENT $55,000,000
FOOD MANUFACTURING FACILITY
The project included a 160,000 square foot brownfield facility expansion. Engineering disciplines include packaging & processing mechanical, electrical & controls, structural, and facility mechanical (HVAC, compressed air, water, steam, & condensate). Key engineering deliverables encompass an issue for construction (IFC) signed and sealed multi-discipline drawing package, basis of design (BOD), integrated design package, installation contractor scopes of work (SOW), and a 3D model developed in revit and navisworks.
PROJECT FACTS
SIZE 160,000 SF Brownfield Expansion
CLIENT Confidential
DELIVERY EPC Design / Build
CAPITAL INVESTMENT $80,000,000
CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT GRIND ROOM EXPANSION
McCownGordon was selected as the designbuilder to complete a food grade grind room expansion for a global leader in the pet food industry, at their production facility in the southeast United States. The project included expanding and building out roughly 5,000 square feet of metal wall panel core and shell construction to accommodate the relocation of processing tanks. Extra planning was taken into account since the space is to be refrigerated upon completion.
With the space remaining occupied and operational during construction, the team focused on coordinating scheduled shutdown times with the owner so as not to disturb ongoing production.
Construction completed in fully-operational facility
Food and beverage manufacturing client
Completing work during short shutdown period
PROJECT FACTS
SIZE 4,800 SF
DELIVERY Design-Build
CONSTRUCTION COST $4,700,000
PET FOOD PACKAGING LINE REPLACEMENT
In response to the growing demand for our client’s popular dry pet food, the packaging process required an upgrade at their Texas facility. We aimed to replace the existing small bag packaging line with a modern, upgraded system with greater throughput and efficiency.
Starting with a 30% conceptual design, our team assessed the current facility operations, packaging flow, layout design and utility load to design an upgraded packaging line. Future expansion possibilities were also considered. This analysis led to detailed drawings and specifications, forming IFB (Issue for Bid for Installers) and IFC (Issue for Construction) packages.
Using the latest design technology, the team conducted a laser scan of the space and developed a 3D model of the new line with clash detection. This model was incorporated into design reviews with the plant team for coordination and flow of operators and fork trucks and incorporated into the bid documents and vendor files for clear communication. McCownGordon worked collaboratively to coordinate corporate engineering goals with the local on-site needs. The team also managed all equipment procurement, managing lead times, purchase orders and ensuring on-time deliveries.
PROJECT FACTS
LOCATION Temple, TX
CLIENT Confidential
DELIVERY Design-Build
CONSTRUCTION COST Confidential
DELIVERY, SIZE & TYPE
We deliver projects using proven methods such as Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC), Design-Build, Construction Management at Risk (CMAR), among others, tailoring the approach to streamline execution and provide single-point accountability. With a proven record across our projects ranging from $1 million to $300 million, our team brings the accuracy and coordination needed to manage scope, schedule, and budget effectively. Our portfolio spans strategic master planning, complete turnkey installs, brownfield expansions within live facilities, and greenfield developments—delivering predictable outcomes and lasting value for our clients.
OF PROJECTS
BUILDING PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS (BPS) SERVICES THAT SET US APART
MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL AND PLUMBING (MEP)
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing components can be up to 60% of the total cost of a project. Our MEP team engages early to identify constructability issues, potential scope overlaps or gaps, and options that might be more cost-effective or easier to install and maintain.
STRUCTURAL & SOIL
Early in the process, our structural team vets geotechnical information to evaluate the best value foundations for the project. Once on-site, they confirm quality installations and third party inspections to help minimize obstacles during construction.
QUALITY ASSURANCE & QUALITY CONTROL
Quality assurance requires proactive project management and planning. Our QA/QC team reviews design and construction documents for constructibility and performance and provides on-site guidance to reduce the risk of non-quality materials and installations.
COMMISSIONING
As an extension of our QA/QC processes, our commissioning services reduce the risk of warranty issues, deliver smoother project turnovers, and provide energy and maintenance cost savings.
Our VD&C team researches, tests and implements the latest emerging technologies to create a better building experience for owners, architects, engineers and trade partners. Our varied use of technology also leads to quicker issue resolution and client deliverables that outlast the construction project.
Our sustainability team is committed to achieving your project goals. From recycling of applicable waste streams to analyzing and optimizing life cycle costs, our in-house experts guide projects through numerous certification options.
Joseph Reistroffer McCormick Senior Project Engineer
“The McCownGordon team was a great partner throughout our multi-phase renovation project. They worked seamlessly around our ongoing manufacturing operations, ensuring minimal disruption to our daily production. The team from the ground up displayed professionalism always. Their ability to develop creative and practical solutions to complex challenges made a real difference in the success of this project. We’re proud of the improvements we achieved together and look forward to future collaborations.”
