JD Williams Distribution Centre

Colt was involved with the expansion of the distribution centre in Manchester from the very early stages. Colt stayed with the project throughout, providing technical assistance and working closely with the consultant to develop a changing, flexible design for the natural ventilation scheme that evolved as the project progressed.

The design proved challenging because of the structure of the building, a multilevel warehouse full of racked storage on multiple levels. The Colt team provided a single natural ventilation system to serve the building with low level inlet and high level exhaust, rather than separate systems serving individual levels.