Castle Point, Bournemouth

Date: 01/12/2001

Location: South West

Project value: £5,500,000.00

Redevelopment of an existing 1960's shopping centre with three major stores (B & Q, Sainsbury's and Asda) plus a number of national retail companies (Next, Gap etc). This was an unusual development in that the retail area is at first floor level with car parking and storage at ground floor level, excluding the B & Q section which has heavy goods and a garden centre at ground floor. Slight complication for Billington in that B & Q and Asda continued trading in their original premises until the new stores were complete. Overlap on the buildings meant that there were always at least 2 buildings being erected.

Project Scope

Structural steelwork, Omnia flooring, hollow core roofing, concrete cased steel.

Client: Castlepoint
Main contractor: Kier Build
Engineer: Cameron Taylor Bedford
Architect: Mason Richards Partnership
Weight of steel: 3,845 tonnes
Market sector: Retail
Design type: Traditional
Frame type: Low rise