The Printroom UK são uma empresa impressa baseada em Liverpool com um compromisso com a sustentabilidade ambiental. Estabelecido em 2003, sua impressão verde de alta qualidade atraiu uma gama de empresas conhecidas, incluindo Friends of the Earth e Greenpeace, bem como universidades locais e empresas nacionais. O imprimorous precisava criar mais espaço.
The Challenge
The Printroom UK’s ongoing business success had meant their facility in Bootle was operating at maximum capacity and with an open plan design and lots of racking, the existing set up was no longer suitable for the business’s needs. The Printroom needed to create more space.
Ao considerar suas opções sobre como fazer isso, uma opção foi mudar para novas instalações no sul de Liverpool. No entanto, bem como a considerável despesa de realocação de sua operação, a equipe estava interessada em manter seu relacionamento com seus clientes na comunidade imediata e contribuir para a economia local. Para fornecer uma solução em torno de suas operações existentes e dentro do edifício existente. Com a confirmação disso no lugar, a equipe do Prhrontroom trabalhou com os contratados escolhidos HI Level Mezzanine's para criar um design de mezanina que contornaria em grandes máquinas de impressão que estavam in situ e não puderam ser movidas. Nível.
The decision they came to was to refurbish their existing premises and create the additional space they needed by installing a mezzanine floor.
The Criteria
The main criteria for the mezzanine installation was that it had to deliver a solution around their existing operations and within their existing building.
A ground investigation report was carried out to ensure the building’s ground slab could accommodate the mezzanine floor load. With confirmation of this in place the Printroom team worked with their chosen contractors Hi Level Mezzanine’s to create a mezzanine design that would work around large printing machines that were in situ and could not be moved.
This included designing the mezzanine floor column positions around the machine and, later, installing the mezzanine over the machine.
Specifications
- Single tier.
- 250m2 mezanina piso. O Printroom UK precisa agora e permitiu que eles à prova de futuro dos negócios para seu crescimento contínuo. O mezanino agora está completo com estilhaços e permite muito armazenamento dos produtos em papel do cliente. O projeto incluiu vários trabalhos subsequentes após o mezanino, incluindo uma nova área de recepção, escritórios, sala de reuniões e produtos reconfigurados e áreas para fora. No Printroom UK disse:
- General access staircase with mid landing.
- Edge protection, swing pallet gate and load plate.
- Heavy storage loading.
The Result
The new mezzanine floor has provided all the space The Printroom UK need now and allowed them to future-proof the business for its continued growth.
The area under the mezzanine floor now accommodates their signage division, including several large specialist printing machines. The mezzanine floor is now complete with racking and allows for plenty of storage of the client’s paper-based products.
Having recently celebrated their 20-year anniversary the newly refurbished building has come at the perfect time. The project has included several follow-on works after the mezzanine including a new reception area, offices, meeting room and reconfigured goods in and goods out areas.
The Printroom UK team are extremely pleased with the finished result and will be hosting open days in the coming months with their customers being invited to see their new improved facility.
John Sheridan, Sales & Marketing Manager at The Printroom UK said: “The Hi-Level team were great – from working with Neil initially through to Clyde during the project. The installation team had an excellent work ethos. They were onsite early and worked methodically – we cannot fault them. We are very pleased with our new mezzanine floor.”
