Typically, the answer is yes. Because a mezzanine is another floor in your building, as soon as you add a floor that people can use, you are dealing with Building Regulations. What is involved depends more on the size of the floor, uses of the floor, the number of people that will be using the…

Cold storage and chilled distribution facilities across Northern Ireland are under constant pressure to hold more stock without expanding the building. Extending a cold store is costly, both in construction and in the ongoing energy bill for cooling the extra space. For many operators, the better route is making more of the space already available,…

Commercial space tends to get more expensive over time and relocating to a bigger space is time consuming and costly. This is why many companies in Northern Ireland with warehouses, workshops, and distribution centers are choosing to install mezzanine floors rather than relocate. A mezzanine floor is an effective way to get more space by…

You see this often enough. A builders’ merchant or steel stockholder has outgrown their current system and stock has started to spill onto the floor. Now the goal is to determine if they need cantilever racking or whether standard pallet racking will suffice. The most honest counsel we can give is: it depends on the…

Most people install pallet racking to store goods, and then completely forget about it until something goes wrong. This is dangerous because pallet racking is considered work equipment. Like all work equipment, people are expecting you to keep it in a safe condition and to have it checked regularly. A fully loaded run coming down…