A cold store floor is a different animal
NewCold operates automated refrigerated warehouses. Its Pemulwuy site, in the Greystanes industrial estate, holds 14,000 euro pallets across nine loading and unloading docks and started up in 2024. It is the company’s second facility in New South Wales.
The floor in a building like this is not a slab. It is a build-up: a base slab, an insulation layer that keeps the ground from freezing under the chamber, and a wearing slab placed on top of it that carries every pallet, every reach truck and every impact for the life of the building.
What Lotos delivered
Lotos Concretors placed both the base slabs and the wearing slabs, working under head contractor Qanstruct (Aust) Pty Ltd through late 2023 and into 2024.
The wearing slabs went in after the insulated panel chambers were already built, which changes the job completely. There is no crane access and no open sky. The concrete arrives through a boom pump threaded into a finished white room, the pour has to be continuous because a cold joint in a freezer floor is a defect you cannot go back and fix, and the finishing crew works the surface to a burnish inside a sealed chamber.
Why this kind of work suits Lotos
Lotos runs its own pumps, its own laser screeds and its own finishing plant, and the crews are full-time rather than hired in for the week. On a floor where the pour cannot stop and the finish cannot be reworked, owning the plant and knowing the crew is not a convenience. It is the reason the pour goes in clean.
