Farrans Construction has completed construction on a £10m technically complex warehouse in Hertfordshire for client, The Wine Society.
Client
The Wine Society
The Project
Farrans Construction has completed construction on a £10m technically complex warehouse in Hertfordshire for client, The Wine Society.
Warehouse 5 will provide 25% of The Wine Society’s total storage, increasing total capacity across the site to 18 million bottles. Using the latest in temperature moderating technology, this unique project has involved careful planning to accommodate requirements for a strictly controlled operational environment.
Services & Expertise
The new warehouse is 70m long and 23m high, with over 6,000m² of floor space, equivalent to the size of a football pitch. It has been specially designed using the latest in temperature moderating technology and includes facilities for solar panels as well as electric charging stations. The space is already being put to work with wines from the 2019 Bordeaux En Primeur campaign amongst the first bottles to settle into their new home.
The building of Warehouse 5 will also enable the organisation to further streamline its goods in and picking procedures to enhance its service to members.
Constructing this building to seamlessly link into the existing live Warehouses 2 and 4 required effective materials distribution. Farrans has utilised its in-house expertise of laser scan point cloud technology to verify elements of the warehouse using the BIM models.