Poultry farm lands in Eye
Agreenfield site on a rural airfield
in Eye, Suffolk is being converted
into a new state-of-the-art
poultry facility by food producer
Cranswick.
The company says the new site, which
is due to open later this year, will be one of
the most efficient and sustainable poultry
processing facilities both in the UK and
Europe, supplying leading UK retailers and
other manufacturers with fresh produce.
The site will employ over 700 people,
with approximately 300 new jobs created
in the region and the remaining staff
transferred from Cranswick’s existing
production facility.
Cranswick already operates three food
processing sites and runs pig and chicken
farming operations across Norfolk and
Suffolk; employing over 2,000 people in
the region. This latest project is the largest
single investment it has ever undertaken.
In a bid to bring as much benefit to the
local community as possible, Cranswick
has awarded over £10M of the project costs
to local contractors,
This has seen Kings Lynn-based
Trundley Design Services being contracted
to undertake both architectural and
structural engineering responsibilities
for the project, and Norfolk-based A C
Bacon Engineering being subcontracted to
fabricate, supply and erect the steelwork.
Trundley Design Services Managing
Director Ian Trundley says: “After over a
year in the designing and planning phase
with Cranswick, we are delighted that
the building of the new food processing
facility has commenced and is currently on
schedule for completion in October 2019. It
is very rewarding to see the building work
come to life and our dedicated project team
remain focused on the continued delivery
of this prestigious project.”
Work on site kicked off last year
with another local firm completing the
groundworks contract. This work included
the excavation of more than 80,000t of
earth, in order to flatten and prepare the
plot. Supporting the steel frame over
10,000t of concrete pad foundations were
also installed.
The poultry facility consists of one large
steel-framed structure which is 219m long
and 116m wide at the widest part, with a
maximum height to the underside of the
eaves of 10m.
“The building required the
flexibility of a clear span
Agriculture
Leading UK food producer Cranswick is constructing a new
£60M steel-framed poultry facility in Eye, Suffolk.
FACT FILE
Cranswick poultry
facility, Eye, Suffolk
Main client and
contractor: Cranswick
Country Foods
Architect and
structural engineer:
Trundley Design Services
Steelwork contractor:
A C Bacon Engineering
Steel tonnage: 1,200t
The steel frame was
erected in 14 weeks
The building has a
maximum width of
116m
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Model showing the steel frame, with
the office block and entrance hub on
the right
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