Industrial & Manufacturing
Whether a new facility, addition, or renovation, we help optimize your facility's operations.
We understand the demands of industrial, manufacturing, and data center facilities and strive to help clients achieve their operational and financial goals. By providing comprehensive architectural, engineering, site selection, and site design services, we support site planning and deliver robust process design packages to enable fast and efficient construction through process commissioning and start up.
Energy utilization equipment and systems constitute major expenses for industry. Our team evaluates building infrastructure, identifies inefficiencies, and provides alternative solutions for optimizing your systems. We determine potential cost-saving measures, estimate total costs for implementation, and calculate the simple payback period to assist in the decision-making process.
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Our Expertise at a Glance
LaBella’s industrial and manufacturing staff provide a breadth of services that have gained us long lasting clients. Some of our specialty services include:Site Selection, Entitlements, & Land Development
Whether your project is a stand-alone manufacturing facility or a 1,500 MW data center campus, our Land Development Team works with you to understand your vision and bring it to life.
We pave the way for entitlement, supporting industrial and manufacturing land development projects from site selection and feasibility through concept planning, design, and construction. Our success lies in a well-rounded, tailored team approach—bringing together architects, engineers, environmental scientists, land surveyors, landscape architects, planners, and other specialists as necessary.
Industrial Process Engineering
Our process engineering capability and experience covers a range of project types including facility expansion, rehabilitation, and retrofit work on existing facilities and process systems. Our engineers have participated in projects for the petrochemical, chemical, industrial, manufacturing, and data center industries. LaBella has experience working with process systems handling hazardous chemicals and in NEC classified hazardous process areas.
Development of the process design and related services include:
- Process Concept Development/Block Flow Diagrams
- Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs)
- Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)
- Heat and Material Balances
- Process Piping and Equipment Sizing, Specifications
- Utility Usage Analysis
- Factory Layout and Process Arrangement
- Process Safety Management, Process Hazard Analysis
- Process Validation, IQ/OQ/PQ
Environmental, Health, & Safety
Our industrial clients are often faced with numerous environmental, health, and safety issues. LaBella’s experience with regulatory requirements and familiarity with regulatory personnel enable us to assist our clients with the following:
- Industrial Hygiene
- Indoor Air Quality
- Process Safety Management
- Risk Management Programs
- Chemical Storage Code Requirements
- Title V & Regulatory Compliance
- Environmental Assessments
- Brownfields
- Soil & Groundwater Investigation
- Asbestos, Lead Paint, and Toxic Mold Management
- Chemical and Petroleum Bulk Storage Tank Management
Building Code & Energy Services
Our staff is knowledgeable regarding Local, State and Federal programs providing monetary assistance for projects resulting in energy savings or productivity improvements.
Our experience can make it possible to greatly reduce the cost of implementing facility capital improvement projects. Programs under which we typically work include:
- NYSERDA Program Opportunity Notices – LaBella is a NYSERDA Flex-Tech Contractor. As such, approved projects are cost-shared by NYSERDA.
- IDA-Sponsored Assistance
- Empire State Development – EMIG
- USDOE – NICE3
Design in an Industrial Setting
Offering full design, plus the details that support successful operations.
From research and pilot to full manufacturing facilities, we have experience in many different industrial settings. Not only can LaBella perform the design of facility infrastructure systems, our engineers and architects have experience with process design and integration. Additional specialized experience includes the following:
- Boilers
- Chillers
- Compressors
- Bulk Gas Delivery Systems
- Renewables such as CHP, geothermal, and solar
- RO/DI systems
- Building gas (including hazardous) delivery systems
- Pollution Abatement design for exhaust and waste treatment
- Neutralization systems
Cleanroom Design
We’re creating contamination-free spaces.
Cleanroom design can be categorized in a number of ways. Creating a space free of air particulate and prevention of cross contamination between equipment and adjoining spaces are important to many of the R&D and manufacturing clients we work for.
Our staff has been involved in cleanroom design ranging from small R&D labs to semi-conductor, pharmaceutical, and glass manufacturing spaces. The clean room classification of our designs has ranged from ISO 3 through ISO 8.
Data Centers
Siting, entitling, and designing your new cloud hubs.
Demand for data center capacity across the U.S. is accelerating, driven by AI, cloud migration, and low‑latency applications. The challenge of converting complex regional constraints into successful, shovel-ready projects is contingent upon the site suitability—land, power, fiber, water and wastewater, access and logistics, skilled labor, zoning/permitting, environmental risk, and overall community and financial support.
The key to finding the right site is finding the right partner—the firm that makes siting, entitling, and designing your new data center easier.
By combining regional grid and permitting expertise with integrated architecture and engineering delivery, LaBella supports development teams with all phases of due diligence, site selection, design, and compliance for mission critical projects, accelerating speed-to-market, reducing project risk, and delivering a sustainable, shovel-ready site for data center development.
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