Maxol, Northern Ireland’s leading family-owned forecourt and convenience retailer, is investing £3.6million in a significant redevelopment and expansion of Maxol Belvoir Service Station in Belfast which will see the building increase by over 300 square metres.
The investment at Shaws Bridge is part of a wider five-year capital investment programme worth £84m that Maxol is delivering across its network to meet the growing demand for convenience-led forecourt services that include coffee, groceries and food-to-go.
Maxol’s sustainable forecourt design will be fully implemented at Maxol Belvoir. A host of cutting-edge technologies will be used to reduce the site’s existing carbon footprint which include the use of LED lighting; glass door refrigeration to reduce the refrigeration load by up to 60%; photovoltaic (solar) panels to reduce electrical import requirements; solar efficient glazing to reduce solar gain in the summer and heat loss in winter; exhaust heat pump technology to maximise building heat retention and reduce heating loads; and an energy management system to monitor and control the overall energy usage on the site and to verify what savings are being achieved by each of the technologies used.
Forecourt developments will see car parking facilities more than double from the current 18 to 48 including four disability parking bays. Pay at Pump technology will be introduced to ensure greater convenience for customers during busy trading periods, the drive through car wash will be re-located on the new site and a new forecourt canopy with LED lighting will also be added.
An EV charging hub, the third in Maxol’s estate in Northern Ireland, is planned as a second stage of the development with six ultra rapid chargers and will open in 2025 under the Maxol Recharge brand.
The investment at Shaws Bridge is part of a wider five-year capital investment programme worth £84m that Maxol is delivering across its network to meet the growing demand for convenience-led forecourt services that include coffee, groceries and food-to-go.
Maxol’s sustainable forecourt design will be fully implemented at Maxol Belvoir. A host of cutting-edge technologies will be used to reduce the site’s existing carbon footprint which include the use of LED lighting; glass door refrigeration to reduce the refrigeration load by up to 60%; photovoltaic (solar) panels to reduce electrical import requirements; solar efficient glazing to reduce solar gain in the summer and heat loss in winter; exhaust heat pump technology to maximise building heat retention and reduce heating loads; and an energy management system to monitor and control the overall energy usage on the site and to verify what savings are being achieved by each of the technologies used.
Forecourt developments will see car parking facilities more than double from the current 18 to 48 including four disability parking bays. Pay at Pump technology will be introduced to ensure greater convenience for customers during busy trading periods, the drive through car wash will be re-located on the new site and a new forecourt canopy with LED lighting will also be added.
An EV charging hub, the third in Maxol’s estate in Northern Ireland, is planned as a second stage of the development with six ultra rapid chargers and will open in 2025 under the Maxol Recharge brand.
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00:00The reason why we're here today starting all of this ground works is to build a
00:05side of the future and it's like anything in retail it changes and what
00:10we need to develop today has to evolve to meet the needs of the consumer. So
00:14what you're going to see is a complete new forecourt, complete brand new large
00:18convenience store under the Spar brand. So this is really going to be very much
00:22building on the blueprint for the future of what modern-day roadside retail is
00:27going to look like. Fibrous convenience, fresh food on the go, it really is going
00:32to be what we would call a full facility roadside retail location of the future.
00:37The site is going to be significantly larger, the canopy, the forecourt, the
00:41building is going to be repositioned, the building itself will be much much larger.
00:47Our aspirations for the site really are to bring the site up to date to make it
00:51relevant for the consumers demands both now and in the future. So customers today
00:56want choice, convenience and quality both on the forecourt and in-store. So on the
01:01forecourt we're installing brand new car wash, premium fuels with regard to our
01:06fuel offer. In terms of car parking we're moving from 16 car parking spaces up to
01:11around 51. The actual footprint of the stores it's going to be increasing by
01:15more than double. We're installing a huge display of fresh food and the latest
01:20refrigeration that will enable fresh butchery, fresh bakery and fresh
01:26produce to be expanded significantly within store. Barista coffee will be a
01:30double barista coffee machine. Our food to go offer will be the delish deli and
01:34then with regard to technology for the customer again the convenience is very
01:38important. So we have self-checkout, ESCLs, electronic shelf-edge labels will
01:43also be employed. Maxwell have endeavoured to be as sustainable and
01:48efficient in our use of energy as we possibly can but it's also something
01:53that our customers are expecting. Sustainability and ESG is very much part
01:59of our DNA today. This particular location will have solar, it'll also have
02:03heat pumps, we're also going to be running the main store with an energy
02:06management system and we're also going to be recycling water as well. So
02:10everything we're trying to do is to reduce the amount of emissions and the
02:14amount of energy that we use within our particular developments.