Stefanutti Stocks Project Snapshot - Industrial Print Facility: Hirt & Carter (Redefine Properties)

#StefanuttiStocks Coastal's Building Discipline completed a large format industrial printing facility in Cornubia (Durban) for its client Redefine Properties in February 2019. The facility, that was purpose-built for tenant Hirt & Carter on a 95 000m² site, was broken up into bulk earthworks and two construction phases - respectively eleven months and seven months long. Some of the project’s highlights included:
Bulk earthworks:
• The platform on the northern part of the site was built up by two metres using 28 688m³ of imported material.
• 61 000m³ of soft rock was removed from the southern side of the site.
Warehouse:
• The structural steel subcontract for the 43 000m² production facility commenced early.
• The ten-metre high structural concrete columns were cast in one lift, with heavy duty (HD) bolts at the top of each column.
• Casting beds for the precast-concrete panel walls were able to start early, once the bulk earthworks were completed.
• The floors for both phases were FM41 grade.
• The production facility’s ten machine bases (each twenty-metres by two metres by 800mm) were all piled and cast to FM2 grade2 flooring. These bases are used for the printing presses.
• Epoxy finishes were specified for some of the printing areas in both phases.
• In addition to the tailor-made floors, the HVAC design was also tailor made to meet the requirements of the different printing processes that will take place in the different areas across the facility.
Office block:
• The 5 500m² office block started one month after the production facility’s construction began.
• This very complex concrete structure includes six concrete meeting pods which are cantilevered out to give the impression that they are "floating" on the side of the building. These independent concrete structures are the only spaces in the office building that have ceilings.
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