Overview
Dawn Pac are retail packers of fresh and value added meat products. In 2003 we were commissioned as principal structural engineers for the construction of a £35 million, 210,000 square foot factory and office block development on a Greenfield site.
We were to provide a full design service on this project employed directly by the end user Dawn Pac.
Brief
- Arrange and supervise a detailed site investigation of the development site
- Recommend a foundation solution for the building
- Design and detail the foundations and floor slabs
- Tender Design and detail of the steel framed factory and office block complex
- Tender and review steel fabricators quotations
- Oversee the steel design
- Design all secondary steelwork to support plant and equipment
- Design and detail the external works to include silo bases, pits, retaining walls and ramps
- Attend site meetings during the construction phase
Solution
- Window sampling boreholes to determine ground conditions and obtain soil samples for geo-technical analysis
- Piled foundations and reinforced concrete ground beams for the heavily loaded office block and reinforced pad foundations for the factory
- Steel portal and lattice roof trusses to the factory, incorporating movement joints due to the length of the building and the requirement for structural fire breaks
- Beam and stick construction for the office block with “Slimfloor” construction for the floors
- Precast retaining walls to the perimeter of the building around loading docks
- Reinforced concrete yard slabs and ramps