Last week, I walked past the X2 warehouse at Heathrow. When it was built, it was seen as the future of warehousing in the UK, with multiple level access aimed at multi-user operations. In Asia, these are pretty common (and way beyond 2 levels). But the UK has not really taken this on. What do you think - with the cost of land continuing to rise, will we see more of these multi-level (and multi-user) sites?
During the pandemic I was on a podcast where I said these facilities will be common place across the UK by the end of my career. I'm 42.... https://www.charlesrussellspeechlys.com/en/insights/podcasts/2021/property-professionals-big-shares-logistics/
British Land secured consent for this one in Thurrock earlier this year https://www.logisticsmanager.com/consent-for-british-land-at-thurrock/
Very probably Emile Naus, just for the sake of not eating out natural soil. In France there is a regulation that is, and will be even more, demanding not to transform natural soil.
With 'Automation', both engineering & intelligence offering alternative perspectives on moving products, this could innovate a different dimension on design. With speed of throughput being a focus for retail minimising the supply chain, it certainly provokes thought. Interesting challenge.
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1moI wrote about intensification and colocation earlier this year... https://www.ukwa.org.uk/publications/Warehouse_January-February_2024/index.html#p=36