Projects Commercial & Industrial

St Peter’s Brewery, Bungay, Suffolk

We secured planning and completed full design and build of this new 1600m² brewery building with associated external works. St Peter’s Brewery has been designed to blend in with its rural surroundings. Timber cladding was used on the kegging area projection to compliment the listed barns and hall. Internally the concrete floor has been set to falls with stainless steel channel drains to take fluids/waste from the brewing process.

Sector: Commercial and Industrial
Location: Bungay, Suffolk
Client: St Peters Brewery Co Ltd
Quantity Surveyor/Architect: Chaplin Farrant Ltd
Structural Engineers: Chaplin Farrant Ltd
Commenced: July 2022
Completed: May 2023
Procurement Method: Negotiated, Design and Build
Contract Value: £2,400,000

St Peters approached contractors for a ‘turn-key – one stop’
service proposal for a new brewery building before any design
work or planning application had begun. We rose to the challenge
and assembled a team lead by us to complete the project from
concept design to handover (effectively RIBA stage 1 to 6).
Initially, the brief was for an extension but this evolved to a much
larger, completely new building set within the site of the existing
brewery, and moated listed hall.

While the local planning department indicated support of the
project, it was clear the design needed to compliment the
surrounding buildings and rural setting. The challenge was to design
a building which could accommodate the brewing apparatus
(including some tall vessels) but also hunker down. We came up
with a duo pitch building with a 7m eave and 10m ridge height. A
well-thought sympathetic landscaping design helps to soften and
blend the building into its surroundings.

A high voltage overhead electricity supply required diversion
underground around the building which we arranged during the
planning period (once positive feedback on our pre-app was
received) thus avoiding delay to the construction when planning
was obtained.

Detailed ground investigation was completed to accompany the
planning application and inform design. Poor ground initially
suggested a piled foundation which was costly. We tasked our
designers with designing out piling which we managed by ground
improvement and reinforced pads and raft.

St Peters procured their own PV array specialist and we
coordinated their works with ours so it could be installed
concurrently with our programme.

The whole project was completed while the existing brewery, shop
and hall remained open for business.

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