We’re proud to have completed phase one and two of the construction of stores 1, 2 and 3 at the new deep-water cement import terminal at Sheerness for Invicta Cementitious Solutions. You can see the full project video here.

Invicta Cementitious Solutions are the joint venture between Brett group and Nova Cement, (the UK arm of Medcem). The recently completed terminal has 80,000 tonnes of storage capacity and is one of the largest cement storage sites in the world.

Burden Bros Construction Ltd acting as the principal contractor for the 2 year warehouse conversion, carried out all the civils work and cladding refurbishment on the 4 acre site.

Our direct subcontractor and good friends at Cook fabrications expertly supplied and installed all of the structural steel work equating to a impressive 600 tonnes.

Cannon piling using restricted rigs inside the buildings installed a total of 501 piles for the Insitu concrete ring beams to take the 4.6m high pre-cast “Alfabloc” retaining wall units to form each cell.

Working very closely with the principal design team at Eastwoods and collaborations with EDS Design solutions, power system services and Innovative Engineering Solutions SL, the project build was successfully completed while maintaining excellent Health and Safety practices.

We faced some engineering challenges along the way especially due to existing underground obstructions, we found the old dry docks from the early 1900s built out of granite blocks forming the walls and the basin, these were historically backfilled and buried with dredged sand and then the warehouses were built over the top.

Refurbishment of the 4 buildings that were linked together over time also proved to be a challenge, the cladding teams overlayed approximately 16,000m2 of roof sheeting and installed 6,000m2 of internal air-tight wall cladding which included complex cladding details in between the existing lattice roof trusses and new the structural steel strengthening and pipework supports.

A landmark project improving the UK’s construction supply resilience — and built to stand the test of time.