Reconstruction of a Logistics Warehouse Complex: Full Project Design

A warehouse is not just a roof over goods. It is a machine for movement. Trucks arrive, goods are unloaded, orders are sorted, assembled, stored, checked, and dispatched again. People, forklifts, fire zones, docks, ramps, utilities, office areas, safety systems, and transport routes all work inside one logistics rhythm.

This project concerned the reconstruction of an operating warehouse complex in Ukraine. The facility had been burned and partially destroyed as a result of military actions, while remaining part of active logistics infrastructure. TEBIN's task was not simply to design a new warehouse. The task was to bring a damaged logistics asset back to work.

The scale was substantial: a warehouse building of approximately 326 × 214 m, 46 loading docks, a 12 × 24 m structural grid, more than 54,000 m² of total area after reconstruction, and 266 planned workplaces. The real challenge, however, was not only size. It was to rebuild the logistics logic.

How do you reconstruct a damaged operating warehouse?

Reconstruction starts by understanding what can remain, what must be replaced, and how the renewed facility should operate. In this case, the project preserved the main structural grid, existing foundations, and the floor slab where possible. Damaged slab areas were addressed by adding a new 150 mm floor layer, allowing the design to respect the existing asset while preparing it for renewed operation.

This approach kept reconstruction from becoming a simple repair exercise. Existing structures, logistics routes, fire-safety requirements, dock interfaces, engineering networks, and site access all had to be coordinated as parts of one future operating facility.

Why was fire-safety logic central to the design?

Fire safety was part of the warehouse operating logic from the beginning. The building was divided into several sections, each acting as a separate fire compartment. Fire walls, protected openings, evacuation routes, smoke extraction zones, fire detection, fire suppression, and fire water systems were coordinated with the warehouse layout rather than added after planning was complete.

For a logistics facility, these systems affect how the building works. Fire compartments influence storage zones and internal movement. Smoke extraction affects roof and technical interfaces. Evacuation routes influence staff areas, administrative inserts, and operational planning. Fire access affects roads, turning areas, external networks, and the General Plan.

What logistics interfaces had to be coordinated?

A logistics building lives by flow, so the design had to coordinate truck movement, loading docks, reinforced concrete ramps, internal warehouse routes, administrative inserts, technical rooms, charging rooms, electrical rooms, staff areas, and service access. Dock stations, dock shelters, dock levellers, gates, ramps, security zones, and dispatch areas had to work together as one system.

The project site is a large operating logistics territory. The General Plan had to work with existing buildings, engineering networks, roads, parking areas, fire access, stormwater drainage, landscaping, pedestrian routes, and future development zones.

Where possible, the design retained existing infrastructure: roads, hard surfaces, utilities, green areas, fire water facilities, transformer substations, and other engineering assets. Where reconstruction was required, it was integrated into the new design logic rather than treated as a separate repair task.

Why was a civil protection shelter included?

The project included a new civil protection shelter for 300 people because reconstruction in the Ukrainian context must account for resilience and human safety. The shelter was designed as a separate protected structure on the site, with two dispersed exits, sanitary and technical blocks, safety pockets, and an evacuation corridor connecting the functional areas.

This was not an optional add-on. It was part of responsible industrial design for a facility returning to operation after damage caused by military actions. The shelter had to be coordinated with site circulation, evacuation logic, engineering systems, and the broader General Plan.

How did BIM support the reconstruction package?

Building Information Modeling helped connect the reconstruction scope across disciplines. Architecture, structures, General Plan, technology, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, water supply and sewage, electrical systems, automation, security, fire protection, smoke control, gas supply, boiler systems, energy efficiency, environmental assessment, and construction organization were developed as parts of one project package.

For this project, BIM coordination was not only a model-management exercise. It helped relate existing retained assets, reconstructed building areas, new building systems, fire compartments, logistics flows, utility corridors, technical rooms, and shelter interfaces. That visibility matters when a damaged facility must return to operation as a coherent warehouse complex.

Project outcome

The result was not only a reconstruction project. It was the transformation of a burned and damaged warehouse asset into a coordinated logistics facility with restored structural capacity, renewed engineering systems, improved fire safety, organized transport flows, protected spaces for people, and a technical basis for further operation.

This project shows what reconstruction really means. Not only to rebuild what was lost, but to return the facility to work safer, smarter, and ready for logistics again.