Jaguar Land Rover press shop extension

Client: Jaguar Land Rover
Main Contractor: Steel Construction Ltd
Roofing and Cladding Contractor: IRC Carocelle
Building Systems UK: Trisomet® insulated wall and roof panels manufactured in Colorcoat HPS200 Ultra® pre-finished steel in ‘Goosewing Grey’.
Year: 2013

With future proofing in mind, Jaguar Land Rover, the UK’s leading manufacturer of premium vehicles has undertaken a multi-million pound investment in a new state-of-the-art press line at its Halewood operations near Liverpool.

As part of this investment work, which will improve efficiency, speed, quality and safety within the press shop, Jaguar Land Rover needed to extend its car manufacturing operations at the site in order to house a new stamping machine. Installing this new machinery required major reconfiguration of the Halewood press shop.

A steel-framed vertical section was added to the existing building.  The press shop bay extension, which measures approximately 120m x 28m, has increased the footprint of the facility by almost 50% as well as adding an extra 12m of headroom to accommodate the new machinery.

The challenge

Jaguar Land Rover’s Halewood facility is one of the most flexible, advanced automotive manufacturing facilities in Europe, producing high quality Jaguar Land Rover vehicles for over 170 countries.

The press shop works 24 hours a day, seven days a week and feeds body shops across Jaguar Land Rover’s network of plants. In light of this, key factors for this project, in terms of product selection, were the restricted access and complexity of the build, which had to be completed in and around a ‘live’ manufacturing plant.

“Working in and around an operational plant with restricted space meant that the co-ordination of deliveries between all of the on-site trades was vital,” says Steel Construction Ltd Contracts Director Kieron Byrne.

 “We a