Factory floor upgraded quickly to VNA spec
September 1st 2005

A building where the UK’s first jet engines were built during World War II has been transformed into a high-bay warehouse with a high specification floor by the Concrete Grinding Group.

The warehouse, near Leicester, measures 80m long, 20m wide and 15m high and is the latest development by logistics company, C S Ellis (Group). Following the refurbishment, it operates as a narrow aisle warehouse with wireguided trucks operating in five runs of 14m high racking.

The floor was in poor condition and contained steel rails and deep holes, so a 180mm concrete slab was laid on top of it to the Concrete Society’s TR34 Category 1 standard. This took just five days.

Concrete Grinding then commissioned a profileograph survey of the floor before using its LaserGrinder to upgrade racking aisles to DM1 ‘superflat’ tolerances.

Grinding the four 80m long aisles took 10 working days, after which the narrow-aisle racking and wire guidance system were installed.

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