Waldeck Services

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Low Carbon & Enviromental Design Consultants

Legacy in the built environment and stewardship of the natural environment is at the core of our approach. Thankfully, legislation and the awareness of the importance of sustainability continues progress, and as a result, is imposing ever more exacting requirements for owners and developers to consider for their assets.

Mechanical & Electrical Engineering

Waldeck understands the importance of co-ordinated, combined engineering solutions and our mechanical and electrical engineering services division provides design services with innovation and creative engineering to deliver simple effective solutions.

Civil & Structural Engineering

Waldeck covers all aspects of the feasibility, detailed design and implementation of major developments and infrastructure for the housing, retail, commercial and education sectors and has a diverse track record in both the private and public sector.

Total Project Solutions

We recognize that in these challenging times clients prefer to deal with a single point of responsibility to solve their problems and deliver their expectations.

BIM Services

Waldeck have learnt a great deal from their market leading Manufacturing Sector experience. "Lean Engineering" was a value process first attributed to the automotive industry, and BIM was derived from those great engineering and design processes too.

Investment Appraisal

From the critical moment when your project is in its formative stages research and evaluation form a vital part of the process. Whether you are thinking of leasing or purchasing land or property Waldeck can offer advice on issues relating to the investment from a technical perspective.

Waldeck Industries

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Natural & Built Environment

Legacy in the built environment and stewardship of the natural environment is at the core of our approach at Waldeck. We have a duty consider built environment proposals & solutions in terms of their economic, social and environmental impact on the planet's finite resources.

Multi-Modal & E-commerce Logistics

Waldeck people have a vast experience across the road, rail, air and e-commerce logistics sectors having worked for many of the largest freight providers from Europe and Asia, on some of the largest and most complex facilities to be undertaken anywhere.

Manufacturing

Waldeck has a strong track record throughout the UK and Ireland in advising international and SME clients on their capital programme and specific project investment.

Energy & Infrastructure

Our natural resources on the planet are becoming scarcer, low carbon economies and the impact climate change are setting agendas for today's investments for future generations.

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Ocado Fulfilment Centre, Dorden

Waldeck were appointed by leading online retailer Ocado Group Plc to provide civil and structural engineering services for a new state-of-the-art distribution centre, a major investment for Ocado to ensure the future growth of the company, in Dordon, North Warwickshire.

Waldeck will be responsible for the structural design of the Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) and the infrastructure on the 35-acre site on the Birch Coppice Business Park.

The 350,000 sq. warehouse is the largest distribution centre under construction in Europe. It will be a fully automated high-tech facility capable of delivering between 180,000 and 200,000 orders a week.

Waldeck dove tailed with Ocado’s in house project management team to co-ordinate the external build works with the construction of the internal, highly sophisticated, automated system whilst still making sure this crucial project is delivered on time and on budget.

Facts

Project: Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC)
Sector: Cold Store & Multi-distribution
Client: Ocado’s
Value: £210m
Completed: Late 2012

For further information contact: 08450 990285 or email us.

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Innovation

Waldeck developed a number of 3D models to optimise the client expectation. This involved looking at a multitude of different configurations to evaluate the cost options for each scheme. The final scheme chosen was based upon economics whilst still delivering the clients expectations and operational requirements on functionality. (There are numerous examples on this unique project, but due to confidentiality arrangement with our client we are not permitted to disclose them).

Industrial Distribution Centre and Warehouse, Tamworth

Headlam Floor Covering Group Plc, the largest such business of its kind in Europe, has invested £7m in building this new state-of-the-art floor covering distribution facility and offices in Tamworth.

The logistic solution combines a bespoke fully automated sortation system and very heavily laden static racking. The offices required column-free, open sales and exhibition space at both ground and first floors requiring a thoughtful structural solution.

Significant ground modelling and civil engineering works were undertaken to deal with planning conditions associated with building height restrictions that required the building envelope to be dug down.

The project is now complete and acts as a showcase facility to the floor covering industry.

Facts

Project: Industrial Distribution Centre and Warehouse
Sector: Logistics and Distribution
Client: Logistics and Distribution
Value: £7m
Completed:

For further information contact: 08450 990285 or email us

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Innovation

Re-use of excavated material for cut and fill operations, particularly acoustic bunds to form residential boundaries. Employing a number of hybrid solutions to deal with the surface water run-off restrictions. The team designed some major superstructure solutions to provide a column-free zone of 60 x 40 metres over the client’s automated sortation system but at the same time not allowing the structure to compromise the building height restrictions dictated by the local authority and reduce ground levels into rock.

Turners Cold Store, Newmarket

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

For further information contact: 08450 990285 or email us.

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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.