Client: Kohler Mira
Main contractor: Benniman Construction
Roofing contractor: FK Group
Products: Trisobuild® roof and wall, Trimapanel® and Colorcoat HPS200 Ultra®
Fire related approvals: LPCB and FM approved
Year: 2022
Location: Worcester
Mira showers opened their new distribution centre at Worcester Six business park in the Spring of 2022 utilising a building envelope designed with the specifications of Building Systems UK site-assembled and insulated panel solutions for roof and wall cladding. The building, covering 158,000 sq ft, can store up to 10,000 pallets and sits on an 11.25-acre site allowing room for a potential further expansion to add another 100,000 sq ft facility in the future.
It is the Kohler Mira Group’s most advanced and automated global distribution centre and was built with sustainability front of mind, in line with the groups desire to be carbon neutral by 2035.
Work began in 2019 and the distribution centre was opened in March 2022 by Craig Baker, managing director at Kohler Mira.
Kohler Mira Group wished to create a world-leading distribution centre, where the building envelope would support in three key areas.
The first of these areas was to ensure a comfortable working environment for its employees. The second was to create a protected space for the complex systems and processes handling thousands of products every day for Mira’s customers all over the world.
Finally, in line with the company aim to become a carbon neutral company by 2035, the design needed to deliver an energy efficient, sustainable building envelope with the capacity to generate renewable energy to power both the facilities and return unused electricity to the grid.
Building Systems UK (A Tata Steel Enterprise), worked with UMC Architects and were able to offer them a wide range of responsibly sourced, sustainable walling and roofing products from one single source UK manufacturer. This enabled the creation of an optimum building envelope solution to meet structural, energy efficiency and air tightness requirements, as well as offering a wide choice of aesthetic colours and finishes to create the visual impact required.
Building Systems UK's Trisobuild® site assembled roofing and cladding system was chosen with over 19,000 linear metres used for the roof and nearly 5,800 linear metres to form the walls. The Trisobuild® system can be tailored to meet the specific requirements of a project by offering design flexibility of internal and external profiles ranging from 19mm to 46mm deep. For this project, R32 and C32 profiles were chosen for most of the roof and wall pro