designers > arh. Milica stojcevic and arh. Danijela milojevic

Raising healthy and vital flocks

The Investor has submitted a request for the design and construction of a modern broiler farms in Backa Topola. The farms are located away from the settlement, but positioned so as to be near a local road to facilitate communication and transport of poultry.

Ensuring quality in poultry farming requires compliance with certain basic requirements, primarily regarding quality housing, quality feed and a high degree of hygiene in the facility and the complex itself.

In this case the form of the building primarily follows its function and the technology in question, highly demanding in terms of temperature, humidity, ventilation, maintenance of a suitable micro-climate, constant air flow, a high degree of hygiene: all aimed at ensuring the highest quality conditions for raising animals and avoiding animal deaths. The realization and position of the building on the construction lot is in line with the functional and maintenance requirements.

Farms biosafety is a key condition for raising healthy and vital flocks.

This involves fencing off the farms, road disinfection barriers set up at entrances to the complex and pedestrian disinfection barriers at entrances to buildings. The staff and visitors must pass through a changing room and undergo disinfection and a change of clothes prior to contact with the animals. Human access is limited and controlled, the buildings on both farms and environment are regularly cleaned and disinfected in predetermined periods between two cycles. All processes related to farming in the buildings are automated.

All of the above conditions require the complexes to be equipped with the relevant infrastructure, and to envisage sufficient space for the proper functioning of the farms and handling of transport and firefighting vehicles.

Guided by the technological process design and terms of reference provided by the Investor, we endeavored to design a modern farm complexes with high-quality facilities that will meet all the requirements of its future users.

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Farms biosafety is a key condition for raising healthy and vital flock

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— arh. Milica stojcevic

PROJECT MANAGER — ALEKSANDAR TRKULJA & Slobodan Radojčić

Seven buildings on each complex

This farm complexes for breeding poultry (broilers), with all accompanying facilities, infrastructure and roads, will be built on five plots when all be finished in the Bačka Topola cadastre. The complexes consists of seven buildings for breeding and one to accommodate farm staff, guards and visitors.

The buildings for broilers have rectangular floor plans of 120 x 21 m. They have an assembled steel structure, whose columns are supported by reinforced concrete parapet wall panels, on AB point foundations cast in situ. The main roof structure consists of trusses spanning 21m bearing rafters spaced at 2.6m. The  longitudinal façade is stabilized with vertical wall braces and the roof with horizontal roof braces. The facades, roof and ceilings consist of thermal insulation panels.

An interesting feature and a challenging one to execute was the unreinforced concrete floor slab. This required a 30 cm layer of crushed stone aggregate that created a solid base on the earth over which the concrete slab was cast. The floor of the building is slopes gently towards the centre where a channel lies along the entire length of the building to drain water when the building is washed down. The building is equipped with plumbing, sewerage, electrical, and mechanical (heating and ventilation) installations.

The staff building has an irregular shape with an area of 91.90 m2. It consists of an assembled steel structure with concrete floor slab and foundations. There are per farm seven feed storage silos located beside the poultry buildings. Their 4x4m square foundations are AB slabs with perimeter beams.

The internal roads in the complex are of reinforced concrete on a compacted base of crushed stone aggregate with compressibility Ms = 90 MPa. Rectangular disinfection troughs are set into the internal road.  Atmospheric water is drained from the road into square 4x4m collection pits of reinforced, permeable concrete. The pits also collect water from washing the poultry farm buildings.

The farms will be supplied with water from wells, with two reservoirs. The reservoirs will supply the farms and provide fire protection.

The complexes are completely surrounded by a galvanized chain-link fence, with gates at the main access points.

Given the complexity of the buildings, which must be fully sealed, and an extremely short deadline for the completion of the complexes, the construction is a real challenge for our team of engineers.

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Extremely short deadline for the completion of each complex, the construction is a real challenge for our team of engineers.

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— ALEKSANDAR TRKULJA

3D visualization of farms

FARM I - Finished project presentation

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