Sainsbury’s Brentwood

New First Floor Store Extension

"The off-site approach helped reduce customer disruption and programme time on this project, and allowed the first floor extension to be completed a month earlier than with traditional construction."


The Requirement

Sainsbury's had a requirement for a new first floor extension at its Brentwood store, to accommodate a customer café, a lobby area to a new elevated car park, customer toilets and baby change, staff facilities and a bulk storage area for general merchandise.


The Solution

The £1.4m modular scheme was completed with main contractors RG Group and reduced the programme time by four weeks. The project is Yorkon's largest contract in the retail sector in the company's 30-year history.

42 steel-framed modules were manufactured by Yorkon off site in York and pre-fitted with internal partitions, sanitary ware, flooring, kitchen equipment, glazing, plumbing, electrics and brick cladding, prior to delivery to site.

The modules were installed in just six days.

This scheme is the third project for Sainsbury's completed by Yorkon and RG Group and follows superstore extensions at Chelmsford and Rayleigh Weir in Essex.

Comments from the Client

Richard Rust, Head of Construction and Delivery, Sainsbury's:

"The off-site approach helped reduce customer disruption and programme time on this project, and allowed the first floor extension to be completed a month earlier than with traditional construction."

"By completing as much work as possible ‘off site', we succeeded in keeping customer car parking to a maximum in this busy trading store. The relationship with RG Group and Yorkon worked well, and the module installation at the store was organised and efficient."