DPD updates on parcel hub construction progress
The parcel delivery firm released aerial footage shows the 276,454 sq ft main hub building and infrastructure work taking place on the 39 acre site.
The £150m parcel hub in Hinckley, Leicestershire is thought to the largest domestic parcel hub in Europe. The new facility will be just 2 miles from two other key DPD sites in the area; Hub 4 and the firm's International Gateway, both of which opened in Sketchley in 2015.
Contractors Winvic Construction commenced building work in January of this year and the main build should be complete by February 2020. The engineering fit-out will then run until December 2021 with the facility operational in 2022.
The main hub building is 502 metres long and 40 metres wide. It will be DPD's most secure and technologically advanced hub, fitted out with the very latest fully automated sortation technology, the optical character recognition software to automatically scan address information, over 300 security cameras and more than 3,000 metres of conveyor. When fully operational, the giant hub will be able to sort 72,000 parcels per hour.
