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31/10/2011
NI Firm To Build £45m Superstore
An Antrim-based construction firm has been appointed by a supermarket giant to build a new 130,000 sq ft supermarket in Salford.
Ballymena builder, Patton Construction, has been sought out by Tesco to tackle the task of building a £45m Tesco superstore opposite Salford City Shopping Centre.
Work on the store is expected to get underway in the first quarter of 2012.
The contractor, which also operates from a base in Milton Keynes, recently built Tesco’s first green store in Ireland, picking up a Tesco Blue Award - its top building accolade for delivering the 26-week contract six weeks early.
Patton also completed its first English design and build timber frame environmental Tesco store in Berwick-upon-Tweed last year, worth around £5m.
It is understood that the next project will work along the same 'environmentally friendly' template- called the Tesco Environmental Store Format.
The 24-hour superstore will be built above extensive underground parking boasting the first LED lighting at any store in the UK.
It will be built using a glulam timber frame with a total building performance target of BREEAM very good.
Roof lights will allow more natural daylight into the store and a combined heat and power plant will generate electricity and make use of the waste heat.
Meanwhile in a bid to reduce the store’s carbon footprint by up to a third the plant runs on naturally produced fuel from sustainable sources such as recycled vegetable oil.
(LB)
Ballymena builder, Patton Construction, has been sought out by Tesco to tackle the task of building a £45m Tesco superstore opposite Salford City Shopping Centre.
Work on the store is expected to get underway in the first quarter of 2012.
The contractor, which also operates from a base in Milton Keynes, recently built Tesco’s first green store in Ireland, picking up a Tesco Blue Award - its top building accolade for delivering the 26-week contract six weeks early.
Patton also completed its first English design and build timber frame environmental Tesco store in Berwick-upon-Tweed last year, worth around £5m.
It is understood that the next project will work along the same 'environmentally friendly' template- called the Tesco Environmental Store Format.
The 24-hour superstore will be built above extensive underground parking boasting the first LED lighting at any store in the UK.
It will be built using a glulam timber frame with a total building performance target of BREEAM very good.
Roof lights will allow more natural daylight into the store and a combined heat and power plant will generate electricity and make use of the waste heat.
Meanwhile in a bid to reduce the store’s carbon footprint by up to a third the plant runs on naturally produced fuel from sustainable sources such as recycled vegetable oil.
(LB)
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