Building to scale

After 15 months of construction work PM Group has completed its project in Łódź. The factory, which will produce notebooks for Dell, officially opened late last month.

The firm was responsible for the preparation of the design and construction plans as well as organizing all the administrative procedures related to obtaining building permits. 

"It was quite a challenge for us. Not only were we in charge of the design but we also had to help with choosing the general contractor and were watching the quality and timing of the work," said Con Murphy, managing director at PM Group Polska.

The investment covers a total area of 46 hectares with the works taking place on some 37,000 sqm. The materials used for the construction included 32,000 cubic meters of cement, 1,700 tonnes of steel and 4,800 tonnes of steel constructions along with 120,000 meters of copper cables. As many as 700 people were working on the project at a time at some stages of construction.

"Given the scale of the undertaking the coordination of the project and implementation of the complex technology used by the investor were our biggest challenges," said Grzegorz Hajnysz, project manager at PM Group. He also explained that the coordination of materials deliveries was of particular importance as these were transported from a number of locations including Japan, the US and Ireland.

PM Group is an international architectural and engineering firm specializing in designing and managing investments. It has been active in Poland since the 1990s and has its headquarters in Wrocław, along with local offices in Warsaw, Łódź, Szczecin and Kraków. The company has provided services to Colgate-Palmolive, Electrolux, Funai, LG, Philips and IKEA and hopes to develop further.

"The company's development in Poland is one of of the most important aims of our business," said Murphy.