Construction of industrial and logistics buildings

Industrial buildings refer to buildings that industries need to carry out their activity, be it a factory or a warehouse. An area that encompasses constructing industrial buildings to house a productive activity or a civil infrastructure that supports the industrial activity and/or houses its facilities.

Logistics platforms and centres are also included in this typology, as they refer to buildings in which logistics and goods distribution operations are carried out, which have been necessary to contribute to the and the market and transport of goods between countries.

Furthermore, the incipient Data Centers in Spain, which is becoming the hub of the European gateway to the world, is included in this speciality. The physical infrastructure is a building to house all the technical elements that serve the Data Centre.

They are eminently functional, open-plan buildings with considerable spans and heights designed to facilitate production and all related activities.. Buildings often materialised in a standardised manner through constructing prefabricated concrete industrial buildings.

The future of these buildings is to be sustainable constructions in which importance is given to energy efficiency and the use of natural resources to produce energy for the facilities themselves to function sustainably, with Breeam, Leed and Well certifications. This will be helped because, in the coming years, automation and robotics will be fully integrated into these buildings as work production forms, so the construction system will also have to be digitised to match the end product.

In addition, current industrialisation trends mean that constructing these buildings no longer involves traditional methods but has shifted to industrialised methods that seek to optimise construction and that there continues to be a search for more sustainable materials to reduce the impact of construction on the environment.

All these projects are carried out under the turnkey or delegated developer modality, in which the property trusts the expert construction company to execute the project and work.

Sando Infraestructuras y Proyectos is one of the leading industrial building construction companies. It has experience constructing industrial warehouses (storage warehouses, showrooms, factories or aircraft maintenance hangars). In the environmental industry, we have experience building specialised logistics platforms, such as food, dry ports, ZAL, air freight, etc., for different uses, such as cross-docking or big boxes.

This experience is backed up by research projects that allow us to innovate in construction and offer customised solutions for our clients. One of these projects is IESEI, “Research on Seismic Resistant, Energy Efficient and Intelligent Building in its Life Cycle”, which, as its name suggests, undertakes the object of study in three aspects based on precast concrete panels: Seismic resistance, Energy Efficiency and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) applied to construction.

Finally, industrial and logistics facilities, like industrial activity in general, require highly specific maintenance and infrastructure preservation procedures. Sando Conservación y Energía, as a company specialized in the maintenance and preservation of industrial and logistics infrastructure, has the expertise and capability to provide these services across all types of industries.