Loading Bay Extension & High Bay Warehouse.

NU Construction has recently completed a project for Snuggledown, Wigan.

Snuggledown of Norway Ltd are part of the John Cotton Group, Europe’s leading manufacturer of duvets and pillows.

NU Construction were successfully awarded the contract to construct a loading bay extension consisting of 5 docking stations and one forklift access door with SR2 pedestrian access points and a separate high bay storage warehouse with a further 2 additional loading bays and docking stations. External works included concrete yards, external lighting and a new car park for 42 cars, controlled by an automatic barrier.

To allow Snuggledown to operate their business without disruption and to maintain their usual production, the programme was compiled in such a way that the new loading bays to the existing warehouse were built out in the first 12-week period to completion, handed over and put in use prior to the main warehouse construction works starting.

Both the loading bays and main warehouse consisted of a portal steel frame, concrete pad foundations, intumescent painting twin skin cladding with contrasting trims, symphonic rainwater drainage, roller shutters and traffic light systems, high bay lighting and concrete slab floors. The main warehouse footprint was 23m x 107m with a height of 18m to the eaves and 19.3m to the ridge.

The car park was designed with impermeable Sudspave ground filtration system negating the need for additional attenuation, a tarmac roadway, palisade fencing, and metal vehicle and pedestrian entrance gates with a fully automated barrier.

Our two main challenges with the project were with the main warehouse been intended for high bay racking and automated FLTs the floor slab was installed to a DM1 standard having a far superior levelness criteria to the more common FM1 specification. Installing cladding above the adjacent warehouse with a fragile asbestos roof this was overcome by using portable cradles