Creative Composites

MSM Contracts were awarded this project to construct a 2,400m2 extension to production space at Creative Composites. The 6-month programme was split over two phases and the works were carried out within a fully operational manufacturing facility adjacent to ‘live’ areas.

Key elements of phase 1 of the works involved:

• extending the existing car park to provide an additional 31 parking spaces
• forming a new reinforced concrete emergency access road incorporating a 2m high reinforced concrete retaining wall
• extending an existing concrete roadway to provide access for deliveries 
• forming an extensive new facilities/marshalling area, predominantly finished in reinforced concrete with a secondary area left with a levelled and compacted hardcore finish

Phase 2 involved:

• constructing a 2,400m2 portal frame extension on piled foundations with eaves height 11.5m above ground level to provide additional production space. Minor alterations/modifications to the existing building frame and envelope were required to facilitate the newbuild extension. The extension was constructed using over 100t of structural steelwork on reinforced concrete pad & strip foundations with a ground supported in-situ concrete slab. The building envelope is Kingspan KS1000RW composite roof cladding panels including rooflights and a fall arrest system, combined with Kingspan KS1000RW EcoSafe composite wall cladding, steel doors and shutters. A cantilevered canopy (8m deep x 52m long) is designed over the entrance to the extension.