Designed and built on a prominent advanced manufacturing campus, the facility meets demanding performance, flexibility, and sustainability standards while anticipating the rapid evolution of manufacturing technologies. The brief called for a seamless and robust production environment capable of accommodating large-scale five-axis milling machinery. Each machine required a 10m by 12m footprint and was set on deep structural bases engineered to handle significant loads.

With adaptability central to the project, the facility was designed with modular layouts and an infrastructure framework that enables reconfiguration in response to evolving manufacturing processes. BIM was employed to simulate operations, de-risk construction, and optimise both safety and operational efficiency.

We delivered a number of key elements as part of our life cycle cost review. These were a 10% sustainable energy provision, a shell that is seamless and low maintenance, no high-level access for maintenance, continuous standing seam roof, no roof penetrations, no eaves gutters, buildability optimised through roof sheeting rolled on site, and provision for future extension.

Smart factory integration also shaped the facility’s digital infrastructure, with systems designed to handle secure data collection, standardisation, and cybersecurity.