FDC were engaged by Charter Hall on an ECI basis to design and construct a new ‘Online Customer Fulfilment Centre’ in Wetherill Park for Coles. An almost identical facility was built in parallel in Victoria.
The new building covers some 26,000m2, with half being temperature controlled to 18 degrees and the other half being chilled to 2 degrees, with a minus 24 degrees freezer within. 
All the building’s statistics are impressive, and it features a robotic Ocado sorting system where around 1000 robots track across the top of a vertical storage system and select the individual items for each customer’s order. This is a first for Australia. 
The Ocado hive requires the highest building tolerances and FDC have achieved this for their clients. This huge and very complex project was delivered to budget, on time and to with a high degree of safety for the construction workers. Well done to the team from FDC Construction & Fitout.