Barpa 14m BroadSpan Container Kitchen

A full commercial kitchen, cool room and servery in one 14m x 3m module, built on the Sunshine Coast and delivered to Western Australia.

Bella Manufacturing built a 14-metre BroadSpan container kitchen for Barpa, a majority Indigenous-owned national construction company. The kitchen serves as a staff canteen in Western Australia, where a fixed commercial kitchen wasn’t practical.

At three metres wide, the BroadSpan module gives the team more working room than a standard shipping container. The full kitchen was designed, fabricated, fitted out and certified in our Warana factory, then transported to site.

A container kitchen built for high-volume service

The hotline is set up for a full canteen menu:
• Two CookRite gas deep fryers, a CookRite griddle, and a four-burner range with oven
• Turbofan touch-screen electric combi oven
• Heated and chilled countertop display cabinets at the servery
• Under bench fridge and freezers, plus a walk-in cool room and dry store
• Washtech pass-through dishwasher and a Big Dipper grease removal system
• Coffee station with a three-group machine and grinder
• Two lockable, gas-strut-assisted servery windows
Two 9 kW Mitsubishi air conditioners keep the kitchen workable through a WA summer.

Non-combustible construction behind the cookline

The body is built from 50mm XFLAM, a non-combustible insulated panel, with 100 mm panel on the coolroom. Behind and beside the cookline, the wall is lined with 15mm Firemaster 550 board and overlaid with 1.2mm stainless steel. The appliances are secured to the floor on a steel frame filled with Firemaster 550.

Gas safety is built into the ventilation. Four exhaust fans clear the cookline, passive gas cowls provide extra ventilation, and an airflow sensor interlocks the gas supply with the extraction. If the extraction isn’t running, gas won’t flow to the appliances.

Designed and documented for a major construction site

On a project this size, the drawings are key. Our CAD team produced a full drawing set, and the layout went through revisions as site requirements firmed up. The benches and hotline were reworked around the structural portals, and the power outlets and grease trap were relocated. Barpa reviewed and approved the final set before fabrication began.

The fit-out was designed to comply with ANZFSA 3.2.3 food premises standards. The electrical installation was tested to AS/NZS 3000 and 3001, and the gas and electrical work was certified before the kitchen left the factory. The kitchen was handed over with a full operations manual, equipment warranties and service contacts.

A BroadSpan module for sites without a kitchen

Construction sites, defence and mining projects, remote facilities and events all face the same problem: they need a commercial kitchen where there isn’t one. A BroadSpan container kitchen is built and tested in the factory, so the on-site work is limited to connecting power, water, gas and waste.

Looking at a container kitchen for your site or project? Get in touch with the Bella Manufacturing team to talk through your build.

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