The beams bridge spans of up to 27 meters, enabling flexible room design and optimized storage. © Brüninghoff

The growing online trade and increasing demands on the availability of goods require sophisticated logistics. Poco has risen to this challenge and invested in a new regional warehouse in Walsrode-Bomlitz, Lower Saxony. This location is centrally located between Hamburg and Hanover and is directly connected to the federal highways 7 and 27 via the Walsrode triangle. Five warehouses were built in three construction phases on a site measuring around 100,000 square meters.

One of the main challenges of the project was to design the internal supports to a minimum in order to make the storage area more flexible. © Brüninghoff

Based on positive experiences from previous projects, the furniture discounter once again decided to work in partnership with Brüninghoff. The project construction specialist from Heiden took over the general contractor services, with the exception of the technical building equipment (TGA), which was realized by the client itself. The architectural concept was designed by Inke Sabine Kloss from Theissen Architektur in Göttingen.

A logistics complex consisting of five halls was built on the approximately 100,000 square meter site in Walsrode-Bomlitz. © Brüninghoff

Optimization of storage space and logistics processes
The logistics complex for Poco was designed to make the best possible use of the built-up area. A key challenge was to minimize the number of internal columns in order to increase the flexibility of the storage area. The building also had to enable efficient loading processes. For this reason, the entire building was raised 1.15 meters above ground level and has a total of 57 gates for the delivery and removal of goods.

57 gates are used for the delivery and removal of goods. © Brüninghoff

Two-storey halls and mezzanines
The five halls reach a height of up to 22.5 meters and offer around 38,900 square meters of floor space on the first floor. One hall has a two-storey design, while the other halls have surrounding mezzanines. These mezzanines were added in order to use the space above the delivery gates for corlet storage and offer a total usable area of around 7,300 square meters. The upper floor of the two-storey hall with a usable area of 6,980 square meters is also used for Corlette storage.

The five halls are up to 22.5 meters high. © Brüninghoff

Use of BIM
Brüninghoff relies on Building Information Modeling (BIM) as standard in the planning and implementation of projects. In Walsrode, the use of BIM data made day-to-day work on the construction site considerably easier.

The halls have a total floor space of around 38,900 square meters on the first floor. © Brüninghoff

BIM was used to control the logistics and timing of the individual trades. The data was prepared in such a way that the model provided important measuring points for a total station, which guided the users to the targets selected in the BIM model with millimeter precision. This proved to be extremely helpful during the foundation work, as time-consuming manual measurements on the construction site were avoided and dimensional tolerances were minimized.

The surrounding mezzanines are used for corlet storage. © Brüninghoff

In Walsrode, Brüninghoff has created an impressive logistics complex that impresses with its clever planning and implementation. This includes the generous spans and the minimal number of columns, as well as the two-storey design and the surrounding mezzanines. The project represents a process-optimized large construction site in which BIM played a decisive role.