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Development of a large new fulfilment centre and modern office space for a leading internet retailer.
Location:Wakefield
Main contractor:ISG Retail Limited
Engineer:BWB Consulting
Architect:SMR Architects
Tonnage:10,700 tonnes
Completion date:February 2022
The project
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend towards online shopping has continued, resulting in the demand for new distribution and warehouse facilities for internet-based retailers remaining high. For this project in Wakefield, Severfield was responsible for the design, manufacture, delivery and installation of the structural steelwork for the warehouse, three internal mezzanine floors, and all related plant platforms, internal buildings and gatehouses, totalling c.10,700 tonnes of hot and cold rolled steel. This includes the supply and installation of c.136,000 square metres of metal floor decking, open-mesh flooring and handrailing to 28 roof platforms. Our cold rolled specialist joint venture, Construction Metal Forming Limited, supplied the cold rolled steelwork and metal floor decking.
Despite the Group's familiarity with large, complex warehouses, each brings its own challenges, with this project facing issues from difficult ground conditions and live power lines spanning the site. This required site erection to be paused for several weeks in order to allow a reassessment of the site programme to ensure our work could continue safely.
As always on a project of this scale, continual communication with the client and other contractors was required in order to resolve any issues that arose in a timely and efficient manner.