Teesside Shopping Park
Interserve's involvement at the Teesside Shopping Park in Stockton-on-Tees has included various landlord fit-outs, refurbishments, new builds, extensions and civils projects in the live retail environment since 1996.
Our long-term partnership has evolved from tendering for projects into the negotiation of future work by ensuring that all the individual tenants' requirements are met with no disruption to their day-to day trading. This approach is underpinned by a dedicated site team with the right skills and ability to provide added value and a commitment to continuous improvement, sustainability, innovation and consistent safe delivery to time, cost and quality.
Sustainability in practice
The site team consider each aspect of their work and aim to make it as sustainable as possible. For example:
- Installation of innovative rain water recycling system and monitoring meter at Interserve's own cost, to clean recycled material on site. This system remains in use to benefit the client's site maintenance team
- Increasing size of guttering to cope with future higher rates of rainfall and building an area to store green arisings from the site
- Building and fixing bird and bat boxes to brickwork and fascias of the new substations on site to encourage local wildlife
- Providing signage stands to inform the public of the biodiversity in the area
- Alternative types of scissor lift used to reduce noise and emissions
- Supplying a dance floor for use by a local dance school to perform for the public out shopping
- Providing a Santa's Grotto to assist a local charity collecting Christmas gifts for children
Examples of our work included:
Units 5, 6 and 7A, Marks & Spencer, Teesside Shopping Park
This landlord redevelopment project comprised the full strip out of three existing retail units 5, 6 and 7A at Teesside Shopping Park to provide one new unit for Marks & Spencer. The £1million-project, awarded by Cleola, required extensive internal and external alterations over very short programme duration.
The work included internal demolitions and steel modifications, roofing alterations and upgrade works, full refurbishment of the rear elevation steelwork and cladding to accommodate revised loading entrances and access requirements. Interserve also provided mechanical service plinths to rear service yard, extensive service upgrades and installations to accommodate new requirements, piling works and manufacture / installation of steel mezzanine floor and staircases to create new first floor level. This included the formation of lift and escalator pits within the existing slab for customer access, manufacture, delivery and installation of new fully-glazed shop fronts and automatic doors c/w external pavement and tower alterations.
The project was completed both on time and within budget, which enabled the store to open for trading on schedule.
Unit 4 Sub-division, Teesside Shopping Park
The conversion works on behalf of British Land involved Landlord strip out, internal alteration and the sub-division of an existing unit into three separate retail outlets to the value of circa £700k.
Initially the works consisted of stripping out all internal fixtures and fittings and to overdraw the existing roof lights with propriety sheeting. The existing shop fronts were removed and replaced as well as new signage towers erected. Installation of new bi-parting automatic doors and the erection of an internal sub-division partition wall were also undertaken. The project was completed by splitting the incoming services in readiness for the new tenant's occupation. These were Game, Lilley & Skinner and Virgin Records.
Sustainability in practice
- Existing timber from strip out and demolition works was separated and chipped for re-use as mulch in the clients' landscaping activities
- Reclaimed existing block paving to frontage and re-used in newly-configured loading bay to rear
- Involved in supporting Teesside Shopping Park's chosen charities throughout the contract
Tenant benefits
- Negotiation enabled early start on site with the demolitions prior to the full design being complete
- Early integration with the four independent fit-out contractors achieved due to the negation process
- Cost certainty provided at an early stage of negotiations
- Certainty of delivery provided as a result of our early start on site
Achievements
- Early client occupancy: Achieving the ambitious nine-week programme resulted in business
- Minimum disruption: Working adjacent to 'live' stores whilst ensuring the adjacent businesses remained unaffected by works
- Health and safety: Zero reportable accidents
Unit 12 Sub-division, Teesside Shopping Park
Interserve's £2.4million design and build project on behalf of Cleola and British Land involved the sub-division of an existing retail unit, previously occupied by a large home improvement chain, into units for Asda Living and New Look. The project included extensive works to the front elevation which were undertaken whilst the Shopping Park continued to trade, requiring public-friendly hoardings along with adequate signage informing members of the public about the works.
The front elevation had new full height shop fronts installed to accommodate the split of the existing design. A new steel canopy with modern LED lighting was designed and installed to create a new current look along with providing a more cost effective and low maintenance lighting scheme.
A full cover mezzanine floor was installed requiring penetration of the existing concrete floor slab and piled foundations within the building. Lift pits and shafts were installed in order to provide access to the new mezzanine floor, incorporating GRP tanks to accommodate the presence of a tide driven water table, no more than one metre below ground level. Full one-hour fire protection to the underside of the floor was required as part of building regulations.
Extensive re-cladding works to rear and side elevations were required in order to meet the new tenants' requirements of their business. Our clients were extremely impressed with the final result and the current tenants continue to have a fantastic-looking building along with a bespoke layout, which allows for maximum trading efficiency.
Unit 6, Pizza Express, Teesside Shopping Park
A £0.74 million new build project that involved all initial enabling excavation works and the complete construction of this steel framed building from foundation to roof structure.
The project included a complex reinforced planar mechanically-fastened structural glazing system on both the lower and upper levels to the front and side elevations. The curved steelwork on the roof and clad bullnose detailed provided a modern image for the client. All external works and landscaping were also completed.
The project was completed to the highest of standards to provide a flagship building and the first 'blade of light' building of its kind in the country.