Sandwich panel warehouse
Due to the dynamic development of industry and trade, there is a high demand on the market for storage halls that are able to store goods and facilitate their packaging and transport to any place in Poland and around the world. With regard to the type of warehouse, we can distinguish between several of the most common types of warehouse halls:
- a warehouse for semi-finished, parts and finished products, located at the production site
- a warehouse in a logistics centre for the storage of commercial products against payment
- warehouse used by a company distributing goods
- storage of agricultural products, fodder used by agricultural producers
- cold stores, freezers and other special storage facilities
When it comes to designing and constructing a sandwich panel warehouse, functionality is the most important consideration:
- selection of a suitable hall construction to suit the needs of the user, the dimensional parameters of the hall, internal and external logistics
- the appropriate positioning of the hall on the plot, the layout of its area and the places that will be used from the point of view of utility
- selection of appropriate roof and external wall cladding, as well as selection of internal partitions - cold stores, freezers, cleaning rooms, storage of bulk materials, required noise standards, storage of hazardous substances, etc.
Functional storage halls are those that allow for the ergonomic storage of materials or products and to which there will be easy and unobstructed access, and in the case of changes to the required space inside the hall, the changes made will not involve significant costs and advanced construction work.
The thermal insulation requirements for a given type of building are contained in the Regulation on technical conditions for buildings and their location, collected in the form of a table. Due to increasingly stringent energy efficiency standards, these conditions are tightening every few years. At present, for buildings where the design storage temperature must be greater than 16 degrees Celsius, composite panels with a U-value of U = 0.15W/m2K are required for the roof and a composite panel for the wall with a U-value of 0.20 W/(m2*K). These requirements are met by the IzoRoof PIR-F 140 and IzoWall PIR 110 roof panels respectively.
For bulk materials, or those that come into direct contact with the panel on an ongoing basis, larger thickness sheet metal panels are used in warehouses to provide greater rigidity and pressure resistance. The standard 0.4mm sheeting on the inside is being replaced with 0.5-07mm sheeting, and in some cases thicker.
For the storage of foodstuffs or those requiring high standards of storage hygiene, sandwich panels with a special Foodsafe coating are used, which protects against bacterial proliferation and is corrosion class C5, i.e. suitable for use in aggressive environments and washable with aggressive cleaning agents and pressurised water.
Fire resistance classes, very important when the hall is used to store hazardous materials, must not be forgotten. The relevant fire resistance standards must also be applied depending on the Fire Resistance Class of the building.