Overview

Vion are an international food group. They have extensive facilities across the UK from farms and hatcheries to primary production, processing and packing. The site in Malton is primarily a pork processing plant. We were employed as the company looked to streamline operations at his site. The proposed alterations they wished to make involved the removal of internal walls and existing structural steelwork to create a more open plan building than currently existed.

Our involvement began with a thorough measured survey of the structural steelwork and load bearing walls in several large interlinked steel framed buildings.

We then developed a “traffic light” colour coding system which was used on the Cad drawings produced from the survey to identify none loadbearing walls which could be safely removed to those which were loadbearing and were colour coded as red.

These key plans were then used to look at the feasibility and likely costs of the proposed alterations.