Warehouse Design
Effective warehouses are designed from the inside out.
Many businesses make the mistake of approaching an architect as the initial step in building a warehouse. Unless the architect is extremely well versed in logistics requirements, the resulting design will almost certainly be sub-optimal – undermining operational performance, increasing cost, or both!
The better approach is to have an experienced logistician apply industry knowledge to develop the initial design and specification. This can be a very quick process – after which the design is handed over to the architect for detailing.
The LCA Difference
A good designer will incorporate all the relevant business statistics into the design of your warehouse. He will also exercise a certain ‘art’ in incorporating:
- Aesthetics
- Build cost
- Build timing
- Capacity maximization
- Corporate culture
- Corporate image
- Culture & religion
- Customer appeal
- Damage prevention
- Driver movement control
- Durability
- Feng Shui
- Fire protection
- Floor flatness
- Floor strength
- Future use flexibility
- Goods vehicle access
- Goods vehicle parking
- Government regulations
- Health & Safety
- Hygiene
- Integration of handling equipment
- Maintenance & upkeep
- Natural lighting
- Peak handling
- Piling
- Plot coverage
- Pillar positions
- Plot shape & size
- Power locations
- Power usage
- Prevailing weather
- Process flows
- Product flows
- Product protection
- Productivity management
- Security
- Signage
- Staff movement control
- Staff vehicle access
- Staff parking
- Staff welfare
- Temperature regulation
- Ventilation
- Visitor movement control
- Workplace ambience
Our experienced designers use their training to apply the science that works, but they also use their depth of experience to mix-and-match build components to deliver the best result.
Successful Projects
View a sample list of projects we have successfully completed for our clients.