· Project brief Amazon’s new fulfilment centre in Tilbury is the e-commerce company’s biggest...
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Job title
Main client
Completion
Installation of access roads, carparks and footpaths
McLaren
September 2017
Project brief
Amazon’s new fulfilment centre in Tilbury is the e-commerce company’s biggest
distribution centre in Europe, packing 1.2 million items per year.
Toppesfield provided 10,000m2 of surfacing for access roads, 3,000m2 for the
site’s vast carparks and 3,000m2 for footpaths on the £120,000,000 major
construction project.
Delivery
Due to an acceleration in programme, we changed to a new scheme-friendly
material and deployed double gangs working day and night shifts to ensure
deadlines were met.
• 32mm base
• 20mm binder
• 10mm SMA
Achievements
• Slick communication and collaboration with our client meant we finished the works ahead of schedule.
• Accident free
• Defect free
Aerial view of the new fulfilment centre
The centre has created over 2300 new