France’s Bouygues Construction with subsidiaries Bâtiment Industrie, Colas and Equans and architect Archi-Factory have finished building what they’re calling a “vast” and “remarkable” distribution centre for Amazon near Lyon-Saint-Exupéry international airport.
Measuring 160,000 sq m in area, the three storey building in Colombier-Saugnieu is 359m long, 154m wide and 19m tall.
Dispatch docks are on the ground floor while the two upper levels provide storage and order picking areas. Autonomous vehicles are integrated into operations. The upper levels have high-precision floor slabs to create the flatness they need.
The frame is prestressed concrete with columns, beams and hollow-core slabs.
The east and south façades are translucent insulated interlocking polycarbonate cladding panels to manage constraints with the location’s proximity to Lyon Airport. The north and west sides are finished with rockwool sandwich panelling.
Seven, phased early-access handovers allowed Amazon to install equipment while construction work was still underway, with 600 Amazon employees on site throughout a six-month period.
It took the team 20 months to complete construction.
Guillaume Allais, Bouygues Bâtiment Industrie’s regional director, said: “We have built a platform for Amazon that showcases Bouygues Bâtiment Industrie’s ability to manage large-scale operations in the logistics sector. The success of this project is founded on meticulous organisation and close coordination between all parties involved.”
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