Winvic Construction Ltd
Traditional ceremony gets new global facility under way
Winvic Construction Ltd, a leading main contractor that specialises in the design and delivery of private and public sector construction and civil engineering projects has been awarded a contract to design and construct the fi rst industrial facility at SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton for end user Yusen Logistics. Winvic, SEGRO and Yusen Logistics celebrated the start of the 1.2 million square feet project with a Japanese Kagami Biraki ceremony. T e Kagami Biraki ceremony – or sake barrel breaking ceremony
– is to bestow wishes for success and prosperity upon the new development; representatives from SEGRO and Yusen Logistics each hit the lid of a sake barrel with mallets and ladled out the sake into cups for the guests to enjoy. T e ground was then offi cially broken, and attendees were given a guided tour of SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton. T e unit comprises a 1,144,000 square foot ground fl oor warehouse
space and a 333,251 square foot mezzanine; Winvic will also construct and fi t out the 35,810 square foot three-storey main offi ce, which has a roof terrace, and a single-storey hub offi ce. It is designed to achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating which will reduce carbon to net zero during
the construction. An array of PV panels will be installed across the entire roof space of the warehouse and EV charging units will also be made available onsite to power Yusen Logistics UK’s all electric company car fl eet. At almost 1.2 million square feet, the single storey warehouse will
be Yusen Logistics’ largest global facility when completed in March 2025. T e facility sits immediately adjacent to the 35-acre Strategic Rail Freight Terminal constructed by Winvic, enabling Yusen Logistics to provide customers with rail freight solutions providing CO2 savings on inbound transport. T e facility has a haunch of 18 metres, 85 HGV docks and 10 HGV
level access doors. Externally, Winvic will undertake all hardstandings and landscaping for the scheme including parking for 924 cars, 163 HGVs, 230 cycles and 34 motorcycles; of these, 185 will be for electric vehicles. T e warehouse will also have its own security gatehouse, fuel island and lorry wash, a pallet storage area and waste/recycling area. Winvic has been on site at the Nationally Signifi cant Infrastructure
Project (NSIP) in Northampton since January 2021 undertaking enabling earthworks, creating the infrastructure to prepare the site for the fi ve million square feet of warehousing and logistics space and constructing the 35-acre Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI). Winvic has also delivered major upgrades to Junctions 15 and 15a on the M1, the construction of a bypass around Roade village and a new bridge over the West Coast Mainline, and improvements to the A45 and safer junctions along the A508. Danny Nelson, Winvic’s Head of Industrial, Distribution and
Logistics, said: “We are delighted to have been selected by SEGRO to construct the first industrial facility at SEGRO Logistics Park
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