Commercial and Retail

Project Details

Apollo Projects was briefed to design and build a warehouse and office facility at Waterloo Business Park for Conroy Removals. The facility needed to cater for an external yard supporting heavy vehicle movements – including 60ft trucks and 25 tonne forklifts as well as six tonne containers stacked three high. After a full assessment of structural options for the building framework, the most efficient design was to use a combination of steel portal frames and concrete walls.

Considering the extensive use of concrete required, Apollo thoroughly researched the foundations, external slabs, warehouse floors, offices and precast concrete panels at three varying heights to ensure the most resourceful design. The low concrete walls provide adequate bump protection from warehouse operations including forklift movements. Whereas the full height concrete wall along the western boundary acts as a four-hour fire break, and the full height dividing wall between the office and warehouse provides adequate noise attenuation.

The office facility consists of a reception, open plan office space, manager’s office, staff room and kitchen amenities, boardroom, operations area and an IT/server room.

Apollo managed all resource and building consent processes which lead to a fast-tracked consent process overall. Despite there being frequent delays with council consent processes, we remained on or ahead of programme throughout the entire build.