Start-up companies keen to take advantage of a re-emerging economy, crippled by Covid and two years of economic uncertainty, are prime candidates for three units rapidly taking shape in Wiltshire.
But they will need to be quick because multi-channel retailer, Toolstation, has already put a marker on a set of units contained within one of the three mono pitched frame structures on the Warminster Business Park on Furnax Lane.
HBPW Associate, Shaun Strugnell, said: “Our strategic partner, Nationwide Engineering Group, commenced work on the units last summer and they have coordinated activities on site to a tight timescale, while working through a period when materials and resources have not only been hard to programme in advance, but have seen huge price hikes. Everything considered, they have done a great job.
“The plan by end client, Space2work, is to sub divide the three structures into smaller individual spaces. We know that Toolstation has already put a marker on a set of units, which is great because a strong retail brand, which Toolstation is, plays its own part in marketing any remaining units, and that can only bode well for the landlord.”
Each of the three buildings is approximately 47m x 10m and are almost ready for handover. Final activities prior to opening of the wider Business Park will be to complete the landscaping and boundary fence.
“There is an increasing demand for such units,” added Shaun, “either as people downsize or, more to the point, prepare to upscale activities now that we have the green shoots of economic recovery and wider acceptance of Covid as something we will need to live with, certainly in the commercial world.”
HBPW managed all the civil and structural engineering elements of the project including steel design, foundations, drainage and external works.
Client: Space2work
Contractor: Hibberd Developments / Nationwide Engineering Group