Winvic Completes DSV 3 Building Facility

Winvic Construction Ltd has completed a 522,000 square ft industrial facility and offices for global logistics and transport company, DSV. The scheme, which was designed, constructed and partially fitted out by Winvic during the pandemic, is located at the 238-acre Mercia Park, North West Leicestershire.

Delegates from DSV travelled from the company’s global headquarters in Denmark to see the fully realised facility, which comprises three buildings and contains 104 dock levellers:

• A 358,000 sq ft steel-framed warehouse containing three mezzanine floors and two single-storey hub offices totalling 4,360 sq ft
• A 112,000 sq ft cross-dock terminal that contains a 7,050 sq ft single-storey hub office
• A 35,660 sq ft three-storey office building

The stand-alone office building was designed and executed to meet DSV’s global standards; Winvic also fitted out the office space, which can be found within the warehouse buildings. Prominent design features to the main office include a glass lift, wood-panelled walls in an oak finish and a feature staircase. The external works package included 381,700 sq ft yard space plus car parking for 406 vehicles, and the programme contained all drainage, retaining wall, and hard and soft landscaping works.

Winvic Construction Director, Rob Bull, said: “The DSV project bucks the industrial facility trend because it comprises separate buildings for the main warehouse, cross dock and offices, but there was no doubt that we could carefully sequence the construction and fit-out works to build them all simultaneously and within ten months. Additionally, our team led by Project Manager David Gilbert knew that the aesthetics, material quality and execution had to meet DSV’s high global design standards and we’re as thrilled as DSV are about the exceptional finish achieved.

“Without such a talented team which works as one and always has an eye on the joint end goal, we wouldn’t be able to deliver schemes of this nature so swiftly, expertly and in the challenges presented by the pandemic – so thank you to them.”

Brian Winther Almind, Executive Vice President, Group Property at DSV, commented: “It has been a pleasure to work in partnership with Winvic over the past year on Mercia Park and the team’s skill and knowledge has driven the project to a successful completion, on time and to budget.

“It is an important site to DSV as it will now become home to all three of our business units – DSV Roads, DSV Solutions and DSV Air and Sea. We’re delighted that the high-quality design, construction and finish not only meets our global standards but that Winvic has once again exceeded expectations and delivered a true flagship campus for our business.”

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