Client’s Requirements 

Nestle commissioned the construction of a new 33,600m2 manufacturing and production facility, including packing area and all the central plant and associated services at their plant at Tutbury.

The new coffee production facility was an expansion to the current Dolce Gusto provision. The project consisted of 6No specific production buildings including green bean and roasters, freeze dry, extraction, utilities, packing warehouse and office and workshop.

The location of the new facility was on Nestle owned green field land, and required infrastructure, site access, perimeter road and continued operation of the existing facility throughout the project period. The “civils” design team where to co-ordinate with and accommodate the Nestle specific building process design, and liaise with each building process stream lead, to provide an M&E design to Nestle standard and process requirements, which was flexible, expandable and configurable to enable  integration with the existing site M&E services installations.

Silcock Leedham’s Contribution

Silcock Leedham had to work closely with the Nestle  site team, to agree standards, scope of design, commonality across process buildings, and produce M&E detailed design to RIBA stage F, to enable Nestle to issue and procure an M&E contractor based on the detailed design tender information.

 We also had to mark test the design and supplier costs against the Nestle M&E budget, to enable the design to be developed in line with the project cost plan.

Added Value / Unique Selling Points

As part of the development of the design, Silcock Leedham undertook a number of design / pay back exercises to determine the best value against capital cost. The areas that were included in this exercise where external lighting, lamp sources, external lighting controls, internal lighting lamp sources, and internal lighting controls.

Client’s Requirements   

Princes Soft Drinks Ltd commissioned the production of additional storage and warehousing space at their existing factory in Bradford.

The warehouse was to contain a BT close form racking aisle with a radio shuttle carriage unit to provide a semi-automated warehouse for the storage of palleted goods. The facility was also to contain a VNA racking zone, an area for gravity lane storage, seven loading bays and 7 dock leveller locations.

The existing CEVA warehouse and loading bay was to be demolished and the area remodelled to accommodate a revised road layout and new car park.

The new facility also included office and welfare accommodation.

Silcock Leedham’s Contribution

We were responsible for completing Stage D Performance specifications for the building services design, on-site monitoring, snagging, witnessing and 12 month defects inspection.

We also provided an enabling works package to assist with the phased implementation of the new services strategy, in order to keep the site ‘live’ throughout the building works.

Added Value / Unique Selling Points

To keep the site ‘live’ throughout the building works our phased enabling plan for the diversion of the existing services and the implementation of the new services was paramount to the successful completion and handover of the job on time and to budget.

Client’s Requirements   

Princes Soft Drinks commissioned the production of a new juice and syrup facility at their existing site at Tongue Road, Bradford.

Silcock Leedham’s Contribution

Silcock Leedham was part of Faithful & Gould’s team responsible for producing a Stage D Performance specification for the building services design.

Our duties also included on-site monitoring, snagging, witnessing and 12 month defects inspection.

Added Value / Unique Selling Points

We had to implement a complex enabling plan in order to keep the site ‘live’ throughout the building works and to ensure the timely completion of the project.

We also had to work closely with the specialist process subcontractors to ensure that we factored into the services design the environmental and services requirement for a facility of this type, to ensure accurate temperature and humidity settings.

Client's Requirements

Nestle commissioned the expansion of their Product Technology Centre (PTC) in York to incorporate an additional 3,000m2 of new office and meeting accommodation located over 3 storeys as part of their global network of Research Centres. The PTCs are responsible for developing new technologies and innovative products, as well as providing help and technical assistance to Nestlé operating companies around the world.

The modern dynamic and innovative new building incorporates offices; sensory areas (tasting panels); engineering support; conceptualisation; design/idea space; a prototyping kitchen; customer experience and demonstration spaces;  meeting spaces; and also a conference venue for global VIP delegates. The PTC project covered three distinct phases; a new office extension, a pilot plant extension and an office refurbishment.

Silcock Leedham’s Contributions

Silcock Leedham was appointed by Nestle to provide full M&E design from concept to tender and detailed design.

We liaised with the client/team to confirm the design criteria, scope and extent of mechanical, electrical and public health services. We negotiated with the utility companies on incoming supplies and carried out a desktop study of existing utility records, and prepared diversion/abandonment drawings.

We carried out thermal modelling to establish heat gains and heat losses based on fabric information. We prepared M&E services layouts, schematics and plant schedules and liaised with manufacturers to establish technical quotations for costs and plant details. We assisted in obtaining Building Regulations compliance for Part L and other applicable regulations, prepared and submitted the as-design and final Part L compliance Report and Energy Performance Certificate.

Added Value / Unique Selling Points

We provided advice to Nestle on energy management and renewable technologies and produced a Low Zero Carbon Report.

We provided BREEAM and LEED specialist input to enable the building to achieve ‘Excellent’ BREEAM rating and ‘Platinum’ LEED scores.

In order to optimise building design in terms of energy consumption and occupancy comfort, we fully thermally modelled the building using IES Apache SIM. This had allowed the most appropriate facade design in terms of Solar Gain and Daylight distribution.

Client’s Requirements

The client commissioned the construction of a new 24,000m2 manufacturing and production facility, including packing area and all central plant and associated services.  The phase 1 development also includes a  high bay (23m+) automated storage and retrieval (ASR) warehouse.

The works included all ground-works, incoming utilities, car parks and central plant services (modular & scale-able) to suit the complete development. The actual process requirements, manufacturing particulars and production design are subject to a confidentiality agreement.

Silcock Leedham’s Contribution

Silcock Leedham was appointed to provide full mechanical & electrical detailed design and 3D co-ordination of all integrated services, including the process ‘fit-out’ by 3rd party directly procured suppliers. We also provided commissioning management and the  validation of systems prior to the sub-system ‘hand-shake’.  Our role also extended to advising Haribo on energy management, renewable technologies and providing BREEAM specialist input.

Through our experience with similar buildings, we were also responsible for the liaison and coordination of the fire safety and automatic protection systems, in accordance with FM Global.

Added Value / Unique Selling Points

We provided process hall CFD modelling to test our design against the client’s strict internal environmental criteria for humidity, temperature and air movement, which was critical for the hygroscopic starches used in the manufacturing process.

As much as possible, we adopted a ‘loose-fit’ approach to the design to allow the client to ‘scale up’ production simply and easily without major changes to the plant infrastructure.

We took ownership of the BIM element of the design information, pulling the manufacturers information, the structural engineering design and the specialist process design into a master 3D model which gave technical content as well as visual information.