Client: Adnams
Finalist Project of the Year, Building Services Awards
Highly Commended - Sustainable Building of the Year, The Sustainable Building Services Awards
A groundbreaking 4,400m2 distribution centre for Adnams, the Suffolk-based brewer.
Innovation is evident throughout from the green roof to the vehicle wash and rainwater harvesting system. The distribution centre is also the largest building in the UK to use lime hemp construction. This was selected for its sustainable nature and insulating properties. As a result of using the fabric as a climate modifier, there is no requirement for cooling, minimal requirement for heating, and substantially reduced potable water usage.
Image courtesy of Alex Hill/VIEW.
Client: Gazeley
This development for Gazeley in Worksop provides a 400,000ft² building, 12m high, to accommodate a range of potential tenants.The facility includes operational offices and gatehouses.
Hoare Lea provided fire engineering advice in addition to mechanical & electrical services with the main building being designed to accommodate the future installation of sprinklers.
Client: Lex Autologistics
The 194,000ft² refurbishment of an existing warehouse for Lex Auto Logistics in Crick included 1,700ft² of air conditioned office refurbishment and was completed in 2004. Following that a new 300,000ft² distribution centre with headquarters office was commissioned in Chorley.
The facility will store and distribute all manner of automotive parts to the industry and retail outlets. The new build included full fitting out to the users requirements with a combination of wide aisle racking, mezzanine and automated picking systems.
Hoare Lea provided fire engineering advice in addition to mechanical & electrical services with the main building being protected with sprinklers, and aspirated smoke detection including in-rack protection.
Client: Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce wanted good value and the very best in a quiet, clean and safe environment for manufacture of its high-pressure turbine blades. The structure houses equipment including advanced computer controlled, electrode erosion machine tools and centralised aqueous cutting fluid processing plant with a capital cost nearly four times that of the building alone.
The heat gain from the manufacturing equipment was of the order of 2-3 MW. A high level displacement ventilation system was used to offset this gain. Creating the right environment for the equipment and its operators has enabled manufacturing to be stepped up to a 22 hour a day, 364 days a year operation. The output is components with a value measured in many millions of pounds a week. Reject rate for the precision critical hollow blades machined there, has shrunk from 25% in the previous Derby factory, to less than 1%.
The project was awarded a high commendation in the British Construction Industry Awards.
Client: Adnams
Finalist Project of the Year, Building Services Awards
Highly Commended - Sustainable Building of the Year, The Sustainable Building Services Awards
A groundbreaking 4,400m2 distribution centre for Adnams, the Suffolk-based brewer.
Innovation is evident throughout from the green roof to the vehicle wash and rainwater harvesting system. The distribution centre is also the largest building in the UK to use lime hemp construction. This was selected for its sustainable nature and insulating properties. As a result of using the fabric as a climate modifier, there is no requirement for cooling, minimal requirement for heating, and substantially reduced potable water usage.
Image courtesy of Alex Hill/VIEW.
