Logistics & Warehousing
Structural engineering for logistics and warehouse buildings: cross-dock halls, high-bay stores, floor slabs, docks and future extension.
Handling, storage, picking. Large areas, short programmes, thin margins.
What we take on
- Hall structures in steel and precast, designed for repetition
- Industrial floors and slabs for racking and traffic loads
- High-bay stores, including rack-clad construction
- Docks, door zones, canopies and external areas
The floor slab is the risk
This is where the most common failure in this building type sits: rack uprights impose high point loads, forklifts run on small wheels at high load, and the flatness requirement in narrow-aisle stores is tight. That demands design against the actual racking and vehicle concept – and that has to exist before the concrete is poured. Build the slab on assumptions and the remedial work is expensive and interrupts operation.
Use the repetition
A logistics hall is one bay module repeated many times over. Whatever is saved in the module, in steel weight or erection time, multiplies. So we optimise the module and the erection concept, not the individual column.
Design the extension in
Almost every logistics building gets extended. Gable ends, joints and foundations are arranged so the extension is possible later without interrupting operation.
Industrial & Logistics