Old Bushmills Distillery Maturation Warehouse Nos. 31-33

MSM Contracts were awarded this project by the Old Bushmills Distillery Co. to construct a 3-bay warehouse block to be used as maturation warehousing during the whiskey distillation process. This 3-bay warehouse, comprising 5,760m2 floor area, has been constructed during the early stages of a long-term development plan to provide a total of 11nr buildings (in a mix of 2-bay and 3-bay blocks) on this standalone site, off Haw Road, Bushmills.

The building substructure involved RC pad & strip foundations, underslab rainwater pipe connections and internal pipe runs; compacted hardcore filling to the sub-floor; RC ground floor slab incl. Sikafloor Proseal-90 resin polymer solution & construction joints.

• Key elements of the building superstructure/envelope/internal works included:
• Structural steel portal frame with single-skin profiled metal roof & wall cladding
• Precast concrete wall panels to fire walls & RC casings to steel columns
• Superstructure masonry & roughcast sand/cement render to front elevation
• Precast slabs & Trocal roofing to projections along front elevation
• Roller shutters & steel doorsets
• Sprinkler installation; electrical services installation incl. lighting

External works included installing a precast concrete firewater channel with 375mm concrete drainage pipe below; u/ground sprinkler mains; RC slabs; kerbing; surface drainage; fencing/railings; surfacing & landscaping.

Strict control measures & water quality monitoring were implemented daily to ensure no surface run-off from the site contaminated the nearby SuDS pond.

Following the success of this project, MSM were awarded the construction of a further 5no. warehouse units (ie. nos 34-38).