Commercial Refurbishment
Welfare and Canteen Refurbishment, GIST Distribution Hub, Carlisle
Four washrooms and the staff canteen stripped to shell and rebuilt for heavy daily use, inside a live Marks & Spencer distribution hub that never stopped running.
- Location
- Carlisle, Cumbria
- Sector
- Industrial & Logistics
- Completed
- 2026
The brief.
Delivered asStrip-Out, Washroom and Canteen Refurbishment, Principal Contracting
GIST's Carlisle hub serves Marks & Spencer and runs at high throughput around the clock. We were appointed as principal contractor to modernise its staff welfare: three male washrooms, one female washroom and the staff canteen.
The hard part was keeping people looked after while we worked. The site already had limited welfare capacity, so our project management team phased the refurbishment so that some washrooms were always open, and brought in temporary welfare toilets for the length of the project. The facility kept operating throughout.
With that much daily footfall, everything was specified to last: impact-resistant hygienic wall cladding, safety vinyl flooring with coved skirtings, heavy-duty sanitaryware and touch-free infrared taps.
Scope of works.
Every trade below was delivered by us or by a company in the group, under one contract and one point of contact.
- 01 Four washrooms (3 male, 1 female) stripped back to the structural shell
- 02 Safety vinyl flooring with coved skirtings
- 03 Oak-effect vanity units with infrared touch-free basin taps
- 04 Matching oak-effect toilet cubicles and integrated plumbing systems with dual-flush buttons
- 05 High-impact hygienic wall cladding around the full perimeter
- 06 Suspended hygienic ceiling tiles
- 07 Remaining walls and joinery prepared and redecorated
- 08 LED panel lighting and wall-mounted electric radiators
- 09 Staff canteen stripped back to shell
- 10 Howdens kitchen with appliances, installed turnkey
- 11 Brita boiling and filtered water tap
- 12 Canteen safety vinyl flooring, hygienic ceiling tiles and wall cladding
- 13 LED batten lighting and wall-mounted electric heating in the canteen
- 14 Phased programme with temporary welfare toilets so the hub kept running
The difference.
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