Sectors - Industrial

Bibby International . Bicester Park Industrial Estate

PEP were appointed as civil and structural engineering design consultants by contractor G. W. Deeley for this two phase development, providing distribution facilities for Bibby Distribution.

Phase one provides a Budweiser distribution facility consisting of a 84,000 sq.ft. chilled warehouse with 16m high propped steel portal frames and storage capacity for 19.5 million bottles of Budweiser. In addition to this there is a 6,000 sq.ft. three storey steel framed office building alongside the warehouse, as well as a 28m x 15m refrigeration plant.

On an adjacent site the Aura Books distribution facility is also of propped steel portal frame construction, comprising a 60,000 sq.ft. warehouse with integral office accommodation.

Weetabix . Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire

PEP have been involved in numerous developments at the Weetabix production facility, including:

Wheat cleaning plant and associated 30m high silos constructed by slip-forming.

Buildings M2, M3 & storeroom totalling 230,000 sq.ft. of warehousing.

Central heating plant and associated 40m high chimney.

Refurbishment and extension to building AP4 totalling 40,000 sq.ft., including new two storey steel framed ingredient mixing unit within the existing building.

Surface and foul water drainage systems, including dry pond attenuation for the storage of rainfall runoff prior to controlled discharge.

Liebherr (GB) Headquarters Development . Biggleswade

A single phase Design and Build development, providing a new warehouse and headquarters building for Liebherr (GB) on a 3.7 hectare site at Stratton Business Park, Biggleswade.

The development consists of a three storey, 16m high, air-conditioned office block, and a 5,000m2 production unit. The unit is used for service, repair, maintenance and equipment testing, as well as providing a high technology spares warehouse.

Slough Estates . Northampton

A single phase development, providing a new 100,000 sq.ft. warehouse and office facility constructed within extremely tight budget and time constraints.

The project was secured incorporating the principles and ethos of partnering and undertaken under a GMP framework, with an open book analysis of all costs. PEP.s involvement was from conception to completion.

The project was driven by continuous value engineering in order to alleviate absorption of £200k of tenant.s additions. Savings of £120k were achieved by creative design solutions.

Decimus Park . Tonbridge

PEP were appointed as civil and structural engineering design consultants for this three phase development, providing twenty nine B2 and B8 units, totalling 175,000 sq.ft.

The site is steeply sloping and further complicated by the need to work around an existing 18. gas main, protected oak trees and a drainage ditch. A series of terraces have been formed to deal with the slope, constructed with contiguous piled, reinforced earth and pre-cast concrete retaining walls. This has enabled finished ground levels to be laid at a slope of 1:40.

The project required considerable design and drawing input for structural works, roads, drainage and landscaping prior to commencement of construction.

Russel Square, Basildon

PEP were appointed as Lead Consultant and Project Manager for the construction of four new industrial units on a .brown-field. site adjacent to the Old Gin Distillery in Basildon. PEP were responsible for assembling the Design Team and managing the project on behalf of the Client.

With engineering input available to the Client at a very early stage of the project, considerable savings were made in dealing with the unusual ground conditions created by old foundations in the distillery plant areas.

Aero Park . Farnborough

PEP acted as engineering consultants to design and develop this business and industrial park on a site forming part of the Farnborough Aerodrome complex. Appointed initially by the Client, PEP were subsequently novated to the contractor, Fitzpatrick.

The £6.5m first phase comprises 80,000 sq ft of offices and high-tech B1/B6 industrial units. The 16.5 acre site is a phased development with permission for 350,000 sq ft of commercial use.

PEP were also responsible for developing and obtaining approval of the surface water drainage strategy for the whole site.

Swan Business Park . Buckingham

PEP were appointed by contractor G. W. Deeley on this Design and Build contract, to provide civil and structural engineering design services for eleven starter units suitable for business, office or light industrial usage.

The site is steeply sloping and consequently required careful consideration of finished levels in order to minimise excavation while maintaining suitable gradients across the road and parking areas. Retaining elements were kept to a minimum by careful use of planting beds, kerbing and batters.

Foundations were of traditional construction, deepened to allow for adjacent trees and landscaping zones, and designed for fire boundary conditions where necessary.

Ground bearing slabs were utilised, with reinforced downstand edge thickenings on party wall lines and where levels dictated a step in adjacent floor levels.

Colnbrook Trading Estate

PEP were novated to contractor SDC on this Design and Build contract, to provide civil and structural engineering design services for fifteen light industrial units on a remediated brownfield site in Colnbrook.

External works design included determination of finished levels, setting out and construction details for all roadways and parking areas, plus storm and foul drainage systems. The storm drainage system utilised over-sized pipes to provide the necessary attenuation, with final discharge via a petrol interceptor and gabion headwall into an adjacent brook.

The buildings are of steel portal framed construction, with lightweight metal cladding and roofing. Due to poor ground conditions foundations comprise a combination of vibro-stone and vibro-concrete columns, supporting lightly reinforced pads and strips. Ground floor slabs are of traditional cast-insitu construction, also supported by the vibro-columns.

Nestle - York

PEP were appointed by Meller Food and Drink Solutions, to provide civil and structural engineering design services for a significant extension to Nestle.s existing production facility in York. The new facility will produce the company.s Aero chocolate bar.

The extension comprises approximately 14,500 ft2 of production facility, plus two levels of internal mezzanine measuring a further 1,250 ft2. Additional plantroom space is provided on a third mezzanine area.

The building is of steel portal frame construction, with composite cladding and roofing panels. Internal floors to the mezzanine and plant deck areas utilise troughed metal decking with a reinforced insitu concrete topping. The ground floor slab is of cast-insitu ground bearing construction, with precast concrete edge beams and kerbs to the perimeter spanning between foundations at each column location. Foundations are traditional mass concrete pads, with lean mix fill beneath to achieve the required founding level.