Urban Logistics Warehouse Wembley

The completed facility is a high-specification multi-storey urban logistics warehouse finished with a full rooftop solar PV array, multiple dock-level loading bays and a constrained urban yard serving last-mile distribution operations across North and West London. The building sits within a dense existing industrial area and was designed and built to a standard that reflects the growing demand for high-quality logistics space in inner London.

The Challenge

Urban logistics projects in London present construction challenges that straightforward out-of-town warehouse builds simply don't. The site was constrained on all sides by existing buildings, roads and infrastructure. Access for plant, concrete pumps and materials was tightly managed throughout. The concrete programme had to be carefully sequenced around the structural frame erection and cladding installation, and the sheer scale of the floor slab across a large footprint meant the pour schedule required detailed planning to maintain quality and flatness tolerances across the full area.

What We Delivered

Our scope covered the full groundworks and slab package from initial excavation through to finished power-floated concrete floor. The work progressed through several distinct phases.

Groundworks and foundation construction came first. Excavation, formation of reinforced pad foundations and drainage installations were carried out across the site before the structural frame was erected. The images show the scale and depth of foundation excavations required on this kind of urban brownfield site, where existing ground conditions and buried infrastructure add complexity not found in greenfield developments.

Once the building was weathertight, the internal floor slab programme began. DPM membranes were installed across the full footprint, reinforcement mesh was laid and lapped to the structural specification, and the concrete was placed using Camfaud pump equipment positioned both inside and outside the building. The pump reach required to cover the internal floor area while managing access constraints is visible in the construction photography — this is not a straightforward pour operation and requires experienced plant operators and a well-coordinated team to execute without compromising flatness or finish quality.

The slab was finished using multiple power floats working in sequence across the bay programme, achieving the tight surface tolerances required by modern logistics operations for safe, efficient forklift movement and racking installation.

Shuttering and formed joint construction between bays is also visible in the photography, showing the precision required at bay edges to maintain levels and alignment across the full floor area as each pour section progresses.

The Result

A completed high-specification reinforced concrete floor slab and groundworks package delivered on programme as part of a major urban logistics development in one of London's most active industrial property markets. The finished building, now operational as a last-mile logistics facility, demonstrates what is achievable on a constrained urban site when groundworks and concrete are planned and executed properly from the start. 

The Wembley project represents the kind of technically demanding, large-scale subcontract work that Warehouse Construction Contractors carries out regularly across London and the South East, working within principal contractor programmes on significant industrial and logistics developments.

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