Plan Storage Case Studies

Problem: Plan Storage

800,000 Roll Plans stored in pigeon holes and flat files taking up 2 complete floors of valuable city office space – no room for expansion.

Solution

Multi Level Racking consolidated all plans to one section of one floor.

• Improved access and retrieval times – increased productivity
• Documents are protected from accidental damage
• Saved 60% of floor space - more plans per square foot

Section pictured stored 64,000 AO size sheets in an area of 14 sq. metres

Problem: Map Storage

• 3 complete floors taken up with flat file storage
• Weight problems and limited access to upper drawers
• Lengthy access & retrieval times
• Damage to maps

Solution

Multi Level Racking consolidated all plans to one floor

• Improved access and retrieval times - increased productivity
• Documents are protected from accidental damage
• Smaller Footprint

The picture below one complete floor of flat file storage fitting into one small section of Multi level Racking (Total Racking installation incomplete at this stage).

Problem: Map Storage

• 50,000 maps all sizes, mostly large.
• Currently sitting on floor rolled up, stuck in flat drawers, very hard to access if there are large quantities
• Damage and tearing the maps when opening and closing the drawers.
• The drawers are very heavy, and the runners have a limited life span.
• Wasted floor space when you can only go so high with drawer units because of accessing.
• Floor space consumed in this setup was massive.

Solution

Multifile racking

• 18,000 maps on one level in 5.4 square metres (17.82 square feet).
• Quick access and retrieval.
• No drawer damage.
• Floor space is now a 1/3 of the drawers.
• Way economically priced than sets of drawers.

• 34,000 maps stored in 2 levels.
• Even though it has 2 levels (using your floor space correctly) by using the locking platform ladder, accessing the maps is done with ease.
• When accessing a map, you hang it on the attachment supplied to the ladder, simply vacate the ladder and retrieve your map, this also works in the reverse roll of putting a map into the Multifile rack.
• The weight of the steel cabinets are eliminated, your floor space is correctly used, again quick access and retrieval
• It does not matter what size the maps are, they will always line up to the one indexing point.
• If required you can always put a tidy cover around the unit (as per picture of State Rail).

Result

For a very economical investment, these maps can be stored on 1 floor only, the floor space has decreased immensely, and the speed of accessing is outstanding.