Northline Logistics

A third-party logistics operator needed a cross-dock facility live before peak season. The date was the brief; everything else was negotiable.

• A fixed first-shipment date twelve weeks tighter than a conventional programme.
• Tilt-up panel casting and slab pours had to share the same working slab area.
• Dock equipment lead times ran past the target erection date.

We cast the tilt-up panels on the future warehouse slab and sequenced lifting against the pour schedule, so the structure went up as the floor came out from under it. Long-lead dock levellers and roof units were released off the design-build drawings before permit, at our risk.