CGB Graber
The Rundown
CGB Enterprises is a global grain and transportation company that serves the agriculture industry. When business growth led to the expansion of their Naples, Illinois, facility, they needed a building solution that would accommodate both bulk salt and bagged product for distribution to corporate and individual clients.
Feature Details
- 100 ft x 150 ft (15,000 sq ft)
- Offset peak with fabric wall between two sections
- CIP concrete foundation with stem walls
- All steel framing members hot dip galvanized
- ExxoTec™ Elite PVC fabric – white with gray trim
- Overhead doors for heavy equipment access
- 20 psf snow load, 90 mph windload, exposure C, full exposure
- Building use: Agricultural salt bagging and distribution
Industry
Bulk Commodity
Size
15,000 sq ft
Location
Naples, IL
Year
2018
Testimonials
It's kind of like being outside all the time but still having shade.
I love the amount of sunlight that you still get through the roof. It stays pretty warm in the winter and cooler in the summer. It͛s very quiet inside. When you get rain or hail or wind, there's no banging or clanging, no sharp or rough sounds. The acoustics are good. It's fresh and dry and clean. You don't ever have condensation dripping off the roof. It's a controlled environment, yet you still get the benefit of the daylight coming in.
Everything that Legacy said they were going to do, they did.
We obviously had contracts, but the overall feel was kind of like the olden days, where you felt you could just take somebody at their word. Price is a major factor in any purchase decision. But we didn't blink at having to pay a little more for the Legacy structure. Sometimes you have to spend more to get a higher quality building. The installation was very smooth. Legacy's in-house crew worked in cold winter conditions, and they erected the building within five days. They were a very professional group, and I'd highly recommend them. We like the sidewall columns going straight up instead of curving down like in our hoop buildings. First off, it lets us put more product in there. And our front-end loaders can get much closer to the walls and drive straight down the sides. It gives us more working room and increases our efficiency. In the long run I think this will be a building that requires less maintenance. Legacy was so outstanding to work with that I didn't even bother looking at pricing elsewhere.
Legacy was very easy to work with.
The old buildings used tubular steel, and no matter what you do, the salt gets inside the tubes and corrodes them. They came out here with their crew, rented all their equipment, and erected the buildings in three weeks flat – a week ahead of schedule. It's a stand-up company.
