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December 20 2017

Comfortbud and FOZZY-GROUP: time-tested partnership

   Today it’s hard to imagine any business without a partnership and the so-called symbiosis. When projects become interesting, sometimes extraordinary, fresh, but close interaction and understanding of partners bring cooperation to a qualitatively new level, contributing to the successful realization of objects.

   The network of hypermarkets “FOZZY” and supermarkets “SILPO” with the area of ​​10 000 square meters, which sell more than 30 000 products and the “COMFORTBUD” Design Institute  which in its history has implemented more than 500 different projects with a total area of ​​more than 4.5 million square meters – this genuine collaboration of titanium. It’s more than 10 years of successful cooperation, interesting tasks, bold ideas and non-standard decisions. This is the creation of 225 Silpo supermarkets, built according to modern design standards.1   One of the prominent joint projects of the “COMFORTBUD” Design Institute and FOZZY-GROUP was the comprehensive project of the Le Silpo store (2013) in the existing premises of the Mandarin Plaza shopping center in Kyiv. The first success brought about a real boom in new facilities for the FOZZY network, in which the COMFORTBUD Design Institute joined the integrated design. The specialists of our company provided the necessary complex of services at each stage of the project implementation, taking into account the specifics of the institution and taking care to make it as comfortable as possible for future visitors, convenient and functional for the employees.

   Among the dozens of projects implemented, it is worth noting those who needed a specialized, narrow-profile approach. One of such objects is the construction of a commercial and office complex with public facilities and parking on Sportyvna Square, the first in the Pechersk district of Kyiv. Here specialists of the COMFORTBUD Design Institute completed the technical re-equipment of the existing shopping areas of the supermarket “SILPO” in the Guliver trading and office complex. Another similar capital project on the Sichovkh Striltsiv Street allowed adapting existing premises to the needs and format of the brand “SILPO”.

   This high efficiency is largely due to well-established mechanisms of cooperation between the contractor and the customer. The COMFORTBUD Design Institute offered optimal algorithms for actions that allowed achieving the desired results in the shortest possible time.

2“When designing supermarkets” SILPO “there was always a very close cooperation between our specialists and the Customer representatives on each of the projects. The work was carried out in separate sections. We have always developed the most relevant sections of the “Architectural Solutions” and “Technological Solutions” tabs. Other sections – “Electrotechnical solutions”, “Water supply and sewerage”, “Heating, ventilation and conditioning”, “Cooling” were developed at the request of the customer, – says Mykola Khrshanovskyi, Chief Engineer of projects – Only highly skilled specialists were involved in the projects.

Communication with the Customer was at the highest level. Work on a project has always been done according to a predefined plan. It was effective, convenient and understandable for everyone. We received from the Customer a technical task with a plan for the location of the desired technological equipment on their measured drawings. If necessary, we went to the facility to clarify the dimensional drawings. Further, the technologists of the COMFORTBUD Design Institute worked out the received technological scheme, brought it to the requirements of the current norms, formed a specification of technological equipment and issued technical specifications to all the constituents for further work”.

    In addition, in the course of work, the main project engineers and specialists of individual sections regularly went to the site of the construction or reconstruction of the object, keeping under the personal control of the execution of all processes. Thanks to mutual understanding and well-coordinated cooperation, partners have always managed to execute each order in a timely manner and qualitatively.3   It is not surprising, that over time their scale has increased significantly – the group of companies “FOZZY” began to trust the specialists of the COMFORTBUD Design Institute more large-scale projects. Among them there are two supermarkets “SILPO”, extremely popular in Lviv – in the shopping and entertainment complexes “Victoria Gardens” on the Kulparkivska Street and Lviv Forum on the Kulisha – Pid Dubom Street. These “SILPO” supermarkets feature advanced design a system of thought-out engineering communications and optimal planning of retail space.

4“I recall work on the project of the supermarket” SILPO “in the Victoria Gardens shopping and entertainment complex on the Kulparkivska Street in Lviv. The task was very difficult.

This supermarket was designed in the existing premises of the Victoria Gardens, which had already been built for a supermarket of another network, says Chief Engineer of the project Rostyslav Khodachnyk.

All design issues were solved and agreed upon both with the Customer and with the owner of the shopping and entertainment complex. As a result of the successful cooperation of the three parties, our Client was one of the first tenants to enter the trading complex and timely realized its project.

And today, this supermarket “SILPO” is one of the modern and innovative in its network not only in Lviv. “5   FOZZY-GROUP network companies today are modern supermarkets, in the areas of which there is a combination of various services: realization of food for non-food products, tasting of wines, cheeses, confectionery, fragrant coffee, beer, delicious dishes of national cuisines of different peoples of the world, etc.

   Production of high-quality products is achieved through the use of advanced technological equipment, the observance of the technological process, the creation of favorable sanitary and hygienic working conditions, as well as the functioning of the quality control system.
Planning of the premises is always taken in accordance with the current regulations and modern requirements for European-style retailers, with the adherence to streaming, the maximum reduction of the transportation of goods, the absence of counter-flows and crossings of raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products, visitors and personnel.

 6“Interesting and rich work was carried out in 2012 at the shopping and entertainment center on the Kharkiv highway, 168 in Kyiv. The project included a technological part of the supermarket “SILPO”, – says Chief Technologist Natalia Miahkota, – It was a store with a large commercial area of ​​3017.87 m2. By the time it was the largest supermarket network. In the area of ​​the trading floor should be foreseen the sale of a large range of goods. The task was realized thanks to the use of modern functional technological and commercial equipment. Especially diverse assumes a range of culinary products, baking. In addition to the main areas of sale of goods in the area of ​​the shopping area was designed cafeteria. In those days, the placement of catering facilities on the premises of shopping centers was almost never practiced.
For the production of products, the project includes meat, fish, culinary shops, as well as a mini-bakery. It was difficult to link all the processes in accordance with the design rules. The customer, having understood his own needs, offered his decisions on planning the premises of the production workshops. In turn, we came out with counter-corrected proposals, according to technological norms. In particular, a certain challenge was the planning of a mini-bakery, but in the process of working together on the project, the search for an optimal solution was constantly under way. As a result of successful communication, we managed to find an effective planning solution. “

   Cooperation with FOZZY-GROUP is a process of introducing new technologies, adopting effective architectural, and construction, engineering and engineering solutions.

   Thanks to the combined efforts of the specialists of the COMFORTBUD Design Institute, the new supermarkets “SILPO” have become the embodiment of innovative ideas of a comfortable space that offers equally convenient conditions for both sellers and visitors. The projects of supermarkets fully meet all necessary standards of operation and wishes of the Customer, which in the future can always count on partner’s professional support.

   “We want to note the high professional level of the specialists of COMFORTBUD company, the quality and speed of design documentation development, as well as the prompt resolution of all technical issues in the context of short terms of construction of facilities,” said Dmytro Borysovych Morozov, director of one of the enterprises of the network of FOZZI- FOOD “, – We express our sincere gratitude to the experts of COMFORTBUD for long-term fruitful cooperation and we recommend this project organization for performance of design works”.Silpo_Rekomendujemo_Komfortbud_slider   For its part, the COMFORTBUD Design Institute also tremendously appreciates the trust and effective cooperation that enables the implementation of interesting and large-scale projects. Implementing new concepts, the FOZZY group of companies and Comfortbud Company together create objects that become the favorite places for shopping and rest and new symbols in the life of modern cities.