HERON FOODS New Stores

Location: UK-wide

Expertise Area: Architecture, Principal Designer

We have been involved with Heron Foods, and their sister brand B&M, for the past eight years. We have delivered projects ranging from public house conversions to demolition and new build projects where we have acted as Architect and Principal Designer. The pictures show a couple of recent examples that ran at the same time on different sides of the country and both had their own unique challenges.

Both were BIM Projects and drawn in Revit for the Architectural and Structural elements.

Annandale Dale Road in Hull was particularly complex given the ground conditions and area susceptible for flooding. The building had to be elevated above existing ground levels by 900mm and a piling solution for the foundations were adopted to overcome the soup it was to be built on. To the rear of the property we had to design a flood refuge where staff could wait, in the event of a flood.

The existing site was a public house and a betting shop which was demolished to make way for the new development, the betting shop had to remain open until the new Betfred unit was ready for occupation 100 metres away.