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Turners Cold Store, Newmarket

Posted on June 6th, 2011 by admin

Turners Distribution employed Waldeck in conjunction with main contractor MARS Construction within a design and build contract to provide a 15m high 4,050m2 cold store facility to provide storage of frozen goods to a temperature of -25C.

The new facility located at Turners site in Soham, Newmarket is sited within an area of land with up to 1.5m depth of fill material above a chalk stratum. To avoid excessive costs associated with spoil removal and retaining structures Waldeck, in conjunction with the specialist contractor, designed a remediation solution to re-work the existing fill material with lime/cement to provide a finished formation to accommodate slab loading in excess of 150kN/m2. In addition to the above the site was located adjacent to an active freight rail line, so the erection of the frame needed to be in accordance with Network Rail safety regulations.

Facts

Project: Turners Cold Store, Newmarket
Sector: Food Industry
Client: Turner Distribution
Value: £4m
Completed: 2009

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Innovation

The ground modelling remediation and recycling solution won our client contractor the project but we still had to manage the risks dictated by the onerous performance requirements for the floor slab flatness and settlement profiles for the cold store’s mobile racking solution.

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