FMT Warehouse

The project included:

• New 300m² warehouse with mezzanine offices
• Precast concrete construction with CFC cladding
• Feature brickwork and glazed façade
• Complete foundation redesign to suit site conditions
• Deep bored piling solution
• Coordination of architectural, structural and services design throughout delivery

The project site contained more than six metres of uncontrolled fill, creating significant geotechnical risk. Rather than proceeding with the original piling design, there was ongoing collaboration with the client, architect and engineering consultants to redesign the foundation strategy before construction commenced. The revised solution introduced deeper bored piles in fewer locations, providing greater flexibility to accommodate buried obstructions encountered during construction.

Ground conditions continued to present challenges during delivery. The piling works required 73 separate rig set-ups, with 32 CFA piles installed and 15 locations pre-drilled to confirm viability before redrilling and concreting. Two piles collapsed during the pour and metal slag was encountered on two occasions, requiring repairs before works could continue. At the same time, construction was undertaken immediately adjacent to the client’s operating commercial office, requiring careful staging, ongoing communication and safe separation between construction activities and day-to-day operations.

The revised foundation strategy provided the flexibility needed to successfully construct the facility despite difficult ground conditions, while protecting the operation of the adjacent occupied commercial office.

Every pile achieved clean toe response and concrete test results exceeded the required design strength, validating the revised foundation strategy and enabling successful completion of the project.

“We were very happy with the build and very happy with everything Mykra did on the FMT warehouse.”

Michael Grosser, Executive Director, FMT