HiB

Helping ensure optimal set-up for HiB’s new developer-build warehouse

HiB is a leading supplier of mirrors, cabinets, lighting, extract systems and furniture to UK bathroom retailers. The company’s innovative designs and high quality products have fuelled strong growth, so that HiB is now a market leader in its sector. One result of the company’s success is that it has outgrown its main distribution centre at Tamworth in the Midlands.

With any new “developer build”, the standard specification excludes many items required to make the building operational. Tenant’s fit-out items like warehouse lighting and heating, telephone installations, network cabling, building signs, and so on, need to be carefully planned from the outset if the building is to be operationally efficient.

Davies & Robson has supported HiB at all stages of the process, right from the initial negotiations with the developer and agents. As a result, we have been able to influence the standard developer’s specification to include items that will improve the functionality of the building and reduce ongoing maintenance costs.

To arrive at the best design for the new facility, including warehouse and office layouts that take full account of workflows, Davies & Robson experts liaised closely with HiB’s warehouse operational staff to ensure their views and requirements are catered for, whilst at the same time introducing and agreeing new concepts to improve efficiency and space utilisation.

Robert Ginsberg, HiB’s Operations Director said: “Davies & Robson has been a valuable addition to our professional team, and their support and advice throughout this stage of the project has enabled us to proceed with the confidence that we will get a building precisely suited to our requirements.”

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