While 2020 saw many industries shuttered for months and others forced to limp along, the pandemic’s effect on production was but a blip on the radar of Utah-based Big-D Construction. The contractor never shut down its offices and kept all its projects moving forward. Work in some of Big-D’s sectors even accelerated due to increased demand, including food and beverage, deemed an essential business.
“Food and beverage is our wheelhouse,” says Forrest McNabb, president of Big-D’s Mountain West Group and the firm’s National Food and Beverage Group. The groups’ projects in 2020 included Tyson Foods’ new beef and pork processing facility, the ENR award-winning United States Cold Storage addition in Syracuse and the Oatly alternative milk production plant in Ogden.