Scottish & Newcastle, Buncefield

Complete refurbishment was required for the Scottish & Newcastle Distribution Centre in Buncefield. The building was damaged in the oil depot explosion in December 2005. It provides a combination of both office and large industrial warehouse storage space.

The landlord and insurers, F&C Asset Management and Royal Sun Alliance, were keen to return the building to its original state as quickly as possible. Trinity were awarded the contract after completely tendering the works. We were fully responsible for the M&E design and worked closely with Bush Consultancy Architects and Cundall Johnson to evolve the design to suit the requirements of Scottish & Newcastle.

Mechanical Services installed included new gas services and new mains water pipework, new hot and cold water and waste services to the new toilet, shower and canteen areas and the supply and installation of all sanitaryware and shower units. The main office area was provided with a Daikin VRV Comfort Cooling system with a fresh air supply and extract system comprising of an external heat recovery AHU mounted on the roof. Warehouse office supply and extract was provided via an internal heat recovery AHU, again mounted on the roof.

There was a complete fit-out of all Electrical Services including a new MCCB switch panel board, full warehouse, office and external car park lighting and both underfloor busbar for the office space LV power supply and high level power busbar for the warehouse LV power supply. We also supplied and installed complete lightning protection and fire alarm systems, the latter utilising a beam detection methodology.

One particular challenge on this project was managing the services installations in the warehouse where floor to roof heights were always in excess of 10 metres.