Food service

Burger King, Orion Belagavi

A food court unit with no gas supply, a fully electric kitchen, and a mall opening date fixed before shell handover.

1150
Sqft
09
Weeks shell to trading
165
kW connected load
02
Weeks saved upstream
00
Days late

01 · The shell we were given

An all electric kitchen doubles the load and moves the whole problem upstream.

The food court allocation had been set on the assumption of a gas-fired kitchen. An all-electric line roughly doubles the connected electrical load and changes the extract and make-up air balance with it.

The opening date was published before the shell was handed over. Anything that needed a new mall service application had to be resolved in the first fortnight or it would have consumed the programme outright.

Burger King, Orion Belagavi, bare shell at handover

Fig. 01 · Week 0, as handed over

02 · What we did not build

What we did not build

Three routes out of the load problem. Two were closed before mobilisation.

01 · Rejected
Apply for gas
Mall policy did not permit a new food-court gas connection. Even if it had, the application alone would have eaten six weeks of a nine week programme.
02 · Rejected
Cut the menu
A reduced equipment line would have fitted the original allocation comfortably. It also meant opening a store that could not serve the brand's full national menu.
03 · Built
Revise the allocation
Heat load and electrical load workbooks were produced before handover and taken to the mall directly. The allocation was revised while the box was still empty. Full menu, no programme impact.