Etex Platerboard Plant

As an indication of scale of this project principal construction quantities used on the project included:

• Over 5,500 precast driven piles installed
• Over 2,500T of building steel fabricated and erected
• Over 1,000T of reinforcing bar installed to reinforced concrete foundations and slabs
• Over 8,000m³ of concrete to foundations
• Over 50,000m² suspended SSFRC slab

In addition the project was delivered in a BIM environment with all parties working in compatible modelling formats to facilitate the BIM delivery process.  Model federation and clash checking was carried out using Solibri the following benefits were realised by the BIM process.

• CDE provided seamless accessibility to information from all parties
• Clash detection prior to site installation reducing on-site conflicts
• Seamless coordination of specialist contractors/technology providers into design / construction process
• Responsibilities clearly set out by BEP
• BEP was clear and updated as required throughout the project

Lessons Learnt included:

• Ensure all appointed parties models are correctly coordinated in world coordinates system
• Ensure all appointed parties have a comparable level of BIM expertise
• Ensure all parties use compatible/communicable BIM modelling software

In addition to the above our civil engineers were challenged with accommodating the surface water drainage for this previous brownfield site which was also in an ecologically sensitive location next to a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSI) being in close proximity to the River Avon. In summary betterment was provided for this 12.5 hectare brownfield site providing attenuation and restricting discharge from the site to meet the requirements of the Local Planning authority, Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) and the Local Planning authority (LPA).