Performance Floors for Warehouses and Distribution Centres - MHD Magazine 2011.pdfFace Consultants Managing Director, Kevin Dare provides an insight on concrete floor slabs in warehouses and DC, from Structural Design, Detail Design, Free Movement and Defined Movement Floors, Recommendations for Surface Regularity, Abrasion Resistance/durability, Construction Methods to maintenance.
The Bustling Middle EastThe Middle Eastern region has seen a massive increase in its workload with the work coming to fruition, involving both new floor construction and repairs to existing facilities.
FACE Accrues 350,000sqm flooring projectsFace Consultants Ltd has accumulated over 350,000m
2 of supervision and surveying work on projects in the UK and overseas in the last quarter alone.
Design and construction of pilesupported concrete industrial floorsTony Hulett, Technical Director of Face Consultants Ltd writes a report on the Design and construction of pilesupported concrete industrial floors for the Concrete magazine, Concrete Society's flagship publication.
"Piled floors in distribution centres are attracting unfavourable attention among developers and building owners and there is some nervousness about the commonly used steel-fibre-reinforced concrete (SFRC) designs. Many floors are cracked to some degree. In perhaps most cases, the cracking does not lead to serious problems but in others, the severity of the cracking is such that the floors may not give the expected long-term service. Tony Hulett of Face Consultants proposes measures in design and construction required to minimise the incidence of cracks in steel-fibre-reinforced piled floors. First, it is useful to understand what can be expected from floors."
Read moreFACE Face on VDMA Face Consultants (Face) are now able to offer floor surveys to the recently introduced VDMA guidelines with the introduction of the Face ‘Fx’-meter as an attachment to its current Face Digital DIN 15185 Profileograph. This now
enhances the family of Face Digital floor surveying equipment which already covers TR34 (FM and DM), The American F number system (including F min), EN 15620, DIN 18202 and Din 15185.
Although Face can now survey the VDMA guidelines they do not currently endorse the recommendations as they have yet to be validated and peer reviewed.
Quality control for warehouse and industrial floors - Concrete Magazine March 2010 Anecdotal evidence suggests that the quality of warehouse and industrial floors has improved in recent years since the publication of the Third Edition of Technical Report 34
(1). However, instances of poor workmanship and material selection still occur. A further step change in quality control is needed to get the poorest performing flooring contractors up to the standards of the best. The purpose of this article is to provide encouragement to main contractors to grasp the quality nettle and to provide some advice on the key areas to control.
Article written by Tony Hulett, Face Consultants Technical Director, for the Concrete Magazine March 2010 issue. Face Middle East Assists Al Seer Group With New DCAl Seer Group commissioned
FACE Middle East Fzc to assist in the design and construction of the floor for their new Distribution Centre (DC) in Barka, Oman. The first DC in Oman required 10,000sq metre of SuperFlat floor to be built. 25% of the warehouse will be used as a Freezer Store, 25% as wide aisles and the rest as narrow aisles.
FIRST MIDDLE EAST INDUSTRIAL FLOORING CONFERENCE A SUCCESSWorld experts deliver technical seminars on all aspects of concrete industrial floor construction to capacity crowd of contractors, developers and logistics firms.
Guidance Note 2 - Concrete Society proposed European Standard -
The Concrete Magazine July 2008This guidance note is intended to provide additional information relating to a forthcoming Standard on industrial floor regularity and the impact on Concrete Society Technical Report TR34 Third Edition 2003(1)(TR34)
For more news articles, please select from the list:Warehouse & Logisitics News FeaturesFace Consultants collaborated with the Warehouse & Logisitcs News to provide an independant views on industrial flooring and focus on different aspects of floors: joints, surface coatings, durability, flatness, specifications, flooring problems and solutions.
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