In 1999, the Campbell Bewley Group, Ireland’s largest contract catering company, moved its corporate headquarters and its manufacturing facilities for the production of tea, coffee and bakery products to a larger premises in Northern Cross, Dublin. Malone O’Regan was retained as Project Manager for the project, providing civil, structural, process and building services engineering and cost control consultancy for the project.
The brief included feasibility studies on a number of other sites for relocation of some of the existing operations before the decision to relocate them all to the new composite facility on a green field site was approved.
The facilities comprise 7,000 sq.m. of production and distribution space together with 2,135 sq.m. of office space and a tasting room.
Steel trussed portal frames provide large clear spans in the production and distribution spaces. The building is clad in a variety of cladding types with a distinctive curved wall enclosing a glazed entrance.
Malone O’Regan is retained on an ongoing basis for upgrades and modifications to the plant.