Advanced Blades Casting Facility (ABCF)

BWB provided a truly integrated Engineering for this world class manufacturing facility for Rolls Royce located on the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham.

BWB worked collaboratively with the design team, end user, and end users production engineers to develop and then optimise the design to suit the intricate manufacturing processes.

This brand new facility had two very different and distinct engineering challenges. The first challenge was the extremely difficult geotechnical constraints of the existing site. The advanced manufacturing park is situated on the historic Waverly open cast mine that has now been infilled. The proposed site sat on approximately 40m of infilled quarry therefore settlement and substructure design were critical.

The other major challenge was the integrated 'on' proposal from the client to ramp up production over a period of time. This required the layouts and the building to be versatile as production began in earnest.