Project

Heartland Chips is a family-owned South Canterbury business. Locally grown potatoes are made into a variety of potato chips at their factory in Washdyke, to be packaged and distributed to national and international outlets. With the offices outdated and a need for additional storage space, the company was looking to upgrade and extend their premises.

Thompson provided a design-build solution with an 813m² warehouse that is connected to the existing warehouse via a 500m² covered drive-through. The Western wall of the warehouse uses full height precast panels while the Southern and Eastern walls are fully cladded with roller doors providing access from both sides. The warehouse has a future proof design to allow for expansion if required.

Attached to the North side of the warehouse is a two-storey office block which totals 292m² floor area and provides modern workspaces for the administrative site of the business The office features a highly polished concrete floor downstairs, and provisions have been made so a lift can be installed at a later date. The seven horizontal in-situ look precast panels create an aesthetic front face to Sheffield Street in Washdyke.