ARCO Design/Build Names Brian Shoop Director of Process Engineering for Food & Beverage

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — ARCO Design/Build, a national design-build construction firm, announced the hiring of Brian Shoop as director of process engineering for its food & beverage business. ARCO said Shoop's addition strengthens the firm's process engineering capabilities and deepens the company's turnkey design-build offering for food manufacturing and processing facilities. 

Shoop joins ARCO from Gray, where he served as vice president, leading the firm's process engineering practice. During his 16-year career, he has helped manufacturers design, optimize, and deliver production processes and facilities that maximize operational performance, product safety and long-term reliability, ARCO said.

"Brian has spent his career helping food and beverage manufacturers design processes and facilities that perform for decades," said Aaron Weir, president, ARCO Design/Build. "At ARCO, that expertise lives under the same roof as the team that builds the plant, which means our clients get a single accountable partner and a smoother path from concept to production."

Shoop said, "In food and beverage, time is everything. Behind every facility is a product launch, a retail commitment, a customer counting on capacity coming online. ARCO's delivery model is engineered for speed, and by putting process design inside that same model, we can take clients from concept to production faster than the traditional approach allows."