Category Archives: Industrial

Angel’s Envy: Story of a Design Concept

Passion, excitement (and a little bourbon) inspire a unique design process

Representatives from Louisville Distlling Company asked Luckett & Farley to submit a concept and proposal for a new microdistillery in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The facility was intended to be the new home to a rising star in the world of bourbon, called Angel’s Envy. The brand’s story to stardom is as good as the product itself. To manifest the story into [more...]

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Creative problem-solving saved big dollars for sawmill project

L&F architects, engineers knows their stuff and backed by research

Luckett & Farley recently had the privilege to design a sawmill facility for one of our long-standing clients. During its design, we faced a challenge from the state fire marshal’s office (the authority having jurisdiction) regarding the building occupancy classification. The fire marshal had seen some horrible conditions in other sawmills and was strongly leaning [more...]

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How to Defuse a Volatile Situation

Advice for all designers

Sometimes in a project meeting an architect finds himself on the receiving end of criticism, whether he/she legitimately deserves it or not. It’s just part of the job. Now, how he/she chooses to respond to it reveals the character and integrity of the architect – which ultimately may determine how long he’s in business. So [more...]

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Design-Building at the Speed of X-Cubed

Why the Design-Build delivery approach just makes sense.

We have a saying here at Luckett & Farley: ‘we deliver at the speed of x-cubed…with quality driving the deliverable.’ The term “Fast-Paced Project” doesn’t raises eye-brows or serve as an excuse for mediocrity…we call this “normal.” As was alluded in a previous post, Luckett & Farley utilizes technology to deliver infrastructure solutions to our clients. [more...]

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Getting a Cut Above the Competition

How Luckett & Farley Automotive Facility Design Made the Difference

Have you ever considered making drastic improvements to your facility? I’m talking about the kind of improvements that update facility infrastructure, improve efficiency, and provide greater flexibility in order to grow and adapt to the ever-changing economy of your market. Recently Ford Motor Company’s Louisville Assembly Plant started full production on the new Ford Escape. [more...]

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Riddle me this, riddle me that: How’d you get it to look like that?

How laser survey solved a geometric nightmare.

What do you call a project involving a steam chamber, a web of structural steel, confined spaces, and zero time? Some might say that’s a nightmare; we call it an opportunity to implement new solutions. Luckett & Farley’s structural engineers were approached by its “raw-materials-producer” client to assist with installing new platforms and ladders for maintenance [more...]

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Chicken Soup for Your Structure: Steel Corrosion Remedies

Luckett and Farley Structural has been working tirelessly with one of our clients to address certain corrosion issues they’ve been having at their facility.  We all know that concrete cracks; well, carbon steel rusts. But the processes within their 2002 industrial building exposes the structure to the double whammy of extreme heat and steam, occurring in hot-cold cycles throughout [more...]

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