Background

The existing site is the headquarters of Hughes Group and consists of a main production factory/steel framed warehouse and separate offices located in the former ‘Trew and Moy’ train station Dungannon. Working from our clients earlier feasiblity study and concept design we developed this project through the Planning Approval and technical design stages through to delivery on site.

Approach

The brief required a 7,000m2 two story extension. Working closely with specialist food production consultants the brief was developed to include:

• New Fry room

• Cold Store and Dispatch Chill

• High and Low Care areas

• Offices

• Staff Hygiene and changing areas

• Staff Canteen

• Plant accommodation

• Packaging Store

• Ceiling level gantry access walkway and external plant gantry

• Provision of M&E services to extension

• External Site Works – New site entrance and access road, car and lorry parking, Dispatch loading area etc

Civils and separate site drainage for Storm, Foul and FOG including storage for tankering off site.

We took over this project as it commenced on site in January 2021 and had to produce the Building Control and construction drawings for an evolving design scope while balancing increasing costs, client requirements and a complex fire strategy. A collaborative approach to the design was utilised with coordination between the various design team members using their respective BIM software and clash detection. Works are due to complete Q2, 2023. The food production areas were rigorously designed to suit the preparation, fry-line cooking, packaging and distribution process while maintaining safe evacuation in a high fire risk environment. Installation of the food process equipment was provided by a specialist food process consultant and needed coordinated with the building services, heating / cooling, fire suppression and waste management.