Key details
| Project Scope: | Site Redevelopment, Extensions and Upgrades to UPS distribution centre in Bury St Edmunds |
| Client: | UPS |
| Architect: | Rees Pryer Architects |
| Contractor: | Bury Developments |
Key features
- Client is a worldwide package delivery company
- Superstructures designed a new steel portal frame and 2No. conveyor belt finger building extensions
- The new buildings required piled foundations and cast in-situ suspended floor slabs due to poor ground conditions and contaminated ground
- Raised reinforced concrete plinths and floor slab facilitate level loading to delivery trucks
- The finger building extensions were designed with mini portal frames due to number of delivery bay openings
- New extensions house state of the art conveyor systems to upgrade the facility and increase delivery capacity
