China
Indonesia
Vietnam
Thai
Size:
60,000 sqm
Project Type:
Automated High-Bay Distribution Centre
Location:
Dandenong South, VIC
Woolworths' needs:
- Delivering the first of a new generation of automated grocery distribution centres in Australia.
- The building had to be built and integrated around a complex automation system.
- Management and provision of a cost-effective .
- Construction of a rack clad, 44m high building – the highest of its type in Australia. This included modelling of complex geotechnical site conditions.
- Working with international contractors, some of whom were unfamiliar with local safety and construction conditions.
- Integrating multiple local and international construction and automation codes.
The TMX difference
- Delivery of base building elements in line with original program.
- Cost effective construction and programming solutions to comply with international requirements around automation.
- Successful integration of automation and construction of the high-bay, despite challenges around international labour.
- Delivery of a state-of-the-art high-bay distribution centre, the largest high-bays in Australia.
- Zero safety issues from start to finish of project despite the complexity of the asset.
- One of the largest solar power installations in Australia.
