Yorkon builds UK’s largest modular supermarket
Yorkon, has completed the UK’s largest retail project to be built using modular construction – a new eco-store for Tesco at Southam in Warwickshire.
Working closely with main contractors RG Carter, the Yorkon off-site approach reduced the build programme to increase the number of trading weeks by eight to the benefit of Tesco and its customers. The architects for the project were the Saunders Partnership.
The scheme is the first application of a new modular store design, which provides 20,000sqft of retail space, and has uninterrupted spans for the sales areas of 28m, which are unprecedented in the modular industry. This was achieved by reducing internal columns by 50 per cent.
In order to meet the deadline for the store opening, 24-hour factory shifts were employed at the Yorkon production centre in York to manufacture and partially fit out the 70 steel-framed store modules, and the cranage phase included both weekend and night working. To view a video of the new store and its construction, see
www.yorkon.info/tescosoutham. Commenting on the project, Lorraine O’Sullivan, Development Manager at Tesco, said, “From a customer experience perspective, you cannot tell this is a modular building. The over-cladding has been very effective and customers have been very complimentary about the new store.
“Off-site construction allows more work to be carried out in a manufacturing environment, improving both quality and the speed of construction on site. This enables Tesco to be faster to market and to open the doors of a new store to our customers more quickly.”
The store design also includes back-of- house, staff facilities and office accommodation on the first floor, and has concrete floors with terrazzo tiling. Yorkon is part of the Portakabin Group.
Gerflor’s fighting fit solutions where and when it matters!
Gerflor’s Fitness & Leisure range is installed in a wide range of facilities, from local authority fitness centres to private member clubs. Designed in response to the needs of the contemporary health and fitness industry, the portfolio brings together a flooring package which combines vibrant aesthetics with outstanding safety, comfort and hygiene. It embraces Tarasafe Leisure safety flooring, the realistic woodgrain effects of Creation and the outstanding performance and colour palette of Taraflex™. In addition to this, Taraflex™ has been installed at every Olympic games since 1976 and used in over 70,000 sports venues. It is the chosen number one brand
by elite professionals as well architects and specifiers for projects within the local community. The various Taraflex™ products provide player safety for racket sports, shock absorption in multisports and stretching, indentation resistance for cycling or weights and comfort for aerobics.
Creation is ideally suited to health and beauty, childcare and hospitality areas due to its anti-bacterial properties and resistance to stains. For changing rooms, Tarasafe Leisure has the reassurance of slip resistance.
Whereas carpet tiles might have been once the only option considered, the Taraflex™ Fitness tile now provides a far better solution, bringing the durability, comfort and design credentials more normally associated with high end retail environments.
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contractuk@gerflor.com Building & Facilities Management – March 2011 feature :: building & refurbishment 23
Compensator from
Eurocare Showers
Eurocare Showers have launched a brand new addition to their door range, which will provide even greater freedom and flexibility for specifiers and installers alike.
Currently each Eurocare order is manufactured to individual customer specifications, however, occasionally it is not always possible to know the exact size required until installation has begun. Explains Joanna Talbot, sales and marketing manager for Eurocare Showers: “As part of our ongoing research, we wanted to offer customers even greater choice and flexibility by creating a standard range of doors that offer the same versatility as our bespoke range.
“Following research discussions, our development team has created a compensator offering a 105mm compensation.
“Currently, each compensator offers a compensation of plus or minus 15mm, which is a rough guide to the industry standard. This subsequently allows little room for measuring errors. Others have tackled this by simply extending the compensators, but we were looking for a solution that was both functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. “The result is a brand new compensator which has a series of carefully calculated extension stages, into which the doors fit for effortless installation.”
Concludes Joanna: “This new innovation means specifiers and installers now have the freedom to stock, order or fit standard product offerings, without worrying about inaccurate measurements or compromising on the versatility they have come to expect from Eurocare.” Eurocare’s new compensator will be available to order from 1st April. A patent for the compensator has been filed and is
pending.www.eurocare-showers.com Email:
sales@eurocare-showers.com
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