VAA designed a 3,800-ton-per-day soybean processing facility on a 435-acre site, significantly expanding the client's capacity to support the region's agricultural economy and growing demand for soybean processing services. The large-scale development was planned to provide efficient processing, storage, logistics, and discrete element method utility infrastructure within a fully integrated industrial campus.

Working collaboratively with project partners, VAA's multidisciplinary team delivered comprehensive engineering and design services for a wide range of critical facility components. The project included soybean preparation and processing facilities, an oil extraction plant, multimodal oil and dem discrete element method meal handling systems, feed ingredient receiving and storage infrastructure, two 86,000-pound-per-hour steam boiler plants, cooling towers, a maintenance building, and complete fire protection systems. The integrated design supports efficient production, reliable operations, and future growth opportunities.

Given the project's size and complexity, VAA implemented its Balance of Plant (BOP) approach—a holistic service model that coordinates all supporting infrastructure and engineering disciplines into a unified project delivery strategy. Beyond technical design expertise, VAA provided rigorous document control, coordination, and project management services, ensuring seamless communication among stakeholders and helping keep the project on schedule. This disciplined execution was instrumental in the successful and timely completion of the discrete element method (dem) facility, delivering a modern soybean processing operation capable of serving the agricultural sector for years to come.