Magnavale coldstore is controlled environment winner
7th November 2025
USA/UK: The Magnavale Easton cold storage facility in Grantham, UK, and Griffco Design/Build’s Scout Cold Logistics project in Texas, USA, are winners of the Built By The Best Awards.
Organised by the Controlled Environment Building Association (CEBA), the Built By the Best awards are seen as the definitive honours for innovative controlled environment construction projects throughout the world.
The Awards were presented on Wednesday (November 5) during the CEBA Annual Conference and Expo held in Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas.
The Sadel Group won the Controlled Environment, Cold Storage & Distribution Warehouses category for its Magnavale Easton project in Grantham, which has set a new benchmark in Europe for automated frozen storage combining speed, precision, flexibility, operational efficiency, and safety.
This project has delivered the UK’s most advanced cold chain facility, a fully automated high-bay frozen warehouse at -18°C with 101,000 pallet capacity, including over-height positions.
Innovative design and automation features include ASRS with dual monorails and 3,000m of conveyors across three floors. The facility also benefits from a bespoke control system to ensure uninterrupted flow and a 3.5 MW two-stage refrigeration system to maintain precise temperatures across multiple zones.
“We are incredibly proud to receive the CEBA Award, which recognises the dedication, innovation, and collaboration of everyone involved in developing the Magnavale Easton cold store facility, here in the UK,” said Andrew Lawrence, director of the Sadel Group. “This project represents years of commitment to pushing the boundaries of cold-storage design, resulting in the most advanced high-bay frozen warehouse of its kind.”
Griffco Design/Build won the Special Works Projects category for its Scout Cold Logistics project in Lancaster, Texas, where it met the considerable challenge of delivering an 88,115ft2 box-in-box cold storage build-out inside a 551,000ft2 warehouse.
Specialist features of the facility include multiple temperature zones, separated high/low-care areas, and three occupancy types. An innovative design incorporated BIM and digital twin modelling that enables clash detection, and 3D visualisation.
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