Scout Motors
Blythewood, SC
Anticipated Completion 2026
LS3P Credited for design and rendering
This project is a massive manufacturing facility for Scout Motors Electric Vehicles consisting of numerous structures in Blythewood, SC. At peak production, the facility is anticipated to be producing 200,000 vehicles per year. Mainstay Engineering Group and Evans General Contractors were awarded a portion of the project consisting of three new buildings. All three buildings are conventional steel with steel roof joist and joist girders supported at the perimeter of the building by load bearing tilt panels. Interior clear heights established as minimum of 26’-0”. General building descriptions and features are as follows:
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Battery and Ladder Building enclosing ~1,600,000 sf. Building receives vehicle chassis frames and battery components delivered via rail and freight trucks. Production space measures ~1,200,000 sf and are reserved for Scout and vendor processes before chassis are carried via conveyor bridge to other buildings. Structure contains rated battery storage room with floor slabs designed for 2000 psf loading and battery rack system. Due to building geometry, expansion joints are required in both N-S and E-W directions with lateral resisting moment/braced frames in both directions. Tilt shear walls total ~240,000 sf and range from 8”-14” thick.
Just In Time Building enclosing ~560,000 sf. Structure is dedicated to Scout vendors and fitted with traditional truck docks filling the North and South walls of the building. Due to building geometry, expansions joints are required in both N-S and E-W directions with lateral resisting moment/braced frames in both directions. Tilt shear walls total ~100,000 sf and 8 ½” thick panels.
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Accessories Building ~200ft x 950ft and enclosing ~190,000 sf. This building is dedicated to outfitting manufactured automotive components with various accessories prior to final assembly. The building is proposed to contain various robotic operations and paint booths as well as a potential future phase structure of approximately equal area immediately to the North of the building. Tilt wall construction totals approximately 80,000 sf of wall panels and serves as lateral shear walls with three internal bays of lateral moment/braced frames in the N-S direction only.
Smaller structures include a cold-formed stick-framed pump house and a steel framed pedestrian bridge designed to provide employees with a safe travel path above and across the rail road line.