Mezzanine Floor Installation for major food distribution company

Fire Rated Mezzanine Floor Installation for Major Food Distribution Company

Wiltshire Farm Foods the UKs leading meals delivery service, appointed P.K. Storage Solutions to design and build a 325.00 m2 fire rated mezzanine floor installation at their new premises in the West Midlands.

The floor would provide office accommodation on the mezzanine together with a storage area for shelving.  Beneath the mezzanine floor would be a purpose built freezer unit housing live storage conveyors.  The design criteria called for a mezzanine floor capable of spanning directly over the freezer without any internal supporting columns. The ground bearing pressure of the building was unusually low and this also needed to be taken into consideration.  In addition a large span between supporting columns at the front of the freezer unit was required to allow powered trucks to drive into the freezer via ramps

The solution we offered worked for our clients and the mezzanine floor was designed and  calculated to include additional supporting columns at the rear and the front of the freezer unit with large base plates to spread the load. The base plates were also grouted to elevate any point loading on the ground floor slab.

The result is a workable solution to our clients who now have office accommodation and storage space above the freezer unit with a good percentage of working space in front of the roller shutter doors.