HBPW has been working alongside two of the country’s leading retail brands as they expand their West Midlands and Hertfordshire operations.
Debenhams has opened what’s believed to be its biggest retail outlet yet at the Roaring Meg Retail Park in Stevenage, 32 miles north of central London.
Working alongside contractor Faircloth Construction, HBPW completed the project’s engineering design elements including the connections to the entire superstructure, ground floor and mezzanine slabs.
Wednesbury’s Gallagher Retail Park
Faircloth also asked the firm to cast its professional engineering eye over Furniture Village’s new development at the Gallagher Retail Park in Wednesbury near Birmingham.
“It was only a small extension to Furniture Village’s existing site, but again we supplied engineering drawings for the foundations and entire superstructure as well as the ground floor slabs,” said Design Engineer Shaun Strugnell
“Despite all the adverse press about the gloomy economic outlook, it is refreshing to see at grass roots level, that some of the country’s largest brands are still pushing their businesses forward which can only bode well for companies like HBPW.
“As a practice we now have considerable retail experience from Costa Coffee to Lidl and now, of course, Debenhams and Furniture Village. The retail team is as busy as it’s ever been,” he added.