Conder completes superstore for ‘Let's do it' B&Q

It will replace the existing store on Lichfield Street in Burton on Trent when it opens to the public and will join the Kingsfisher Group's other large and medium stores.

The structure contains three separate elements.

The single 61m span, hit and miss, portal framed structure, offers 5,256sqm of retail space within the main building. It rises 6.5m to haunches, on an 8.3m grid, with two-storey offices to the front.

Located on the site of the former John Carr joinery works, the superstore has an adjoining 25m span portal framed builders' yard with 1,360sqm of available storage and display space.

On the opposing end of the main building and sited next to Wellington Road, a 1,560sqm, canopied, brickwalled, garden centre will offer an extended range of plants, shrubs and hard-landscaping materials.

B&Q began life as Block and Quayle after founders, Richard Block and David Quayle, opened their first store in Southampton in 1969. B&Q offers customers 45,000 home improvement and garden products.

The 325-space car park at the new store, with room available for further extension, is located in front of the main store building and accessed from a new road layout.

The company is the biggest home improvement retailer in the UK, with some 14.8% of the repair, maintenance and improvement market share.

The new Burton store will join other new stores at Glasshoughton, Halifax, Stanmore, Morecambe and Derby - Osmaston Park.

In the Superbrands 2008 List, B&Q was voted 88th, and best in its sector, out of 500 in a list identifying brands that have the best reputation in the UK.

Client: Revelan Group

Architect: Alan Johnson Associates

Engineer: Nolan Associates

08/19/09

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