Clare Cade, a project architect at Pozzoni explains: “They
were looking for a landmark building that complemented the existing railway station, and had provision for additional car parking to cope with increased demand at Hayward Heath. “The form was dictated by the function of supermarket,
the sloping site and the position of the site at a prominent junction in town, near to the railway station. “We utilised the sloping site to create a car park deck over
the supermarket, while maintaining ground level access into the supermarket at the lower level.” The Waitrose store is being sited on what is either the
ground or basement level – depending on how you access the site. Before work could begin, nearly 18 months was spent by the architectural and construction team on the 278 section of the planning permission, which related to highways works and was a key part of the design. Mr Newland explains: “In such a busy section of Hayward’s
Heath and West Sussex we had to make sure it worked in every sense.” The site was a car park and before any work could start,
agreement had to be reached on how new spaces could be created for the swathes of commuters that use the station. “There had to be around 600 spaces before BAM could
move onto site,” Newland says. A new three-level car park nearby solved this solution, while
BAM Construct’s team built a loop road around the site that allowed the bus services to keep running. BAM Construct’s team then utilised 2,500 lorry
movements to excavate 19,000 cubic metres of aggregates out of the site. This has all been used sustainably, mostly to support chicken coops in a nearby poultry farm. Once this demolition and excavation had been achieved,
flight auger piles were sunk into the site and erection of the steel framed buildings began using a mobile crane. A steel frame was specified and there are 433 tonnes
of structural steel in the project, which was supplied and fixed by Leeds-based group Elland. Given the travails of the British steel industry, this specification might have created a problem. Newland says not, adding: “Despite all the shenanigans
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