Warehouses and distribution. Storage cubic without moving the building.

What we ship to warehouses

Cubic recovery, not square-footage shuffling.

The pattern is consistent in this vertical: clear height is unused, floor space is full, and the operation needs another 5,000 – 15,000 sqft of usable deck without expanding the building. The structural mezzanine is the standard answer; what differs from project to project is load class, deck choice, and how the stair access integrates with rack lines and forklift paths.

Common scopes

• Storage mezzanines — single or multi-tier; sized to pallet weight at full density, not the catalogue average.
• Multi-tier mezzanines — for buildings with 24 ft+ clear height, two or three stacked decks recover the most cubic.
• Work platforms — for shipping / receiving stations and supervisor decks where people occupy the deck.
• Mezzanine access stairs — sized to occupant load; second-stair threshold checked at site measure.
• Egress staircases — when the deck triggers a fresh OBC §3.4 review.

What changes vs. retail / office buildings

• Slab capacity — purpose-built warehouse slabs handle the column loads. Converted retail or office buildings often don't, and that's a site-measure verification before we draw anything.
• Forklift access patterns — turning radius around stair towers, pallet-drop locations, and rack-aisle alignment all sit on the drawing before fabrication starts.
• 24/7 operations — install windows are constrained to specific shutdown blocks. We coordinate to those blocks, not around them.
• Rack-line interaction — mezzanines that share floor space with selective racking need the rack column line and the mezz column line on the same drawing; surprises here are the costliest install delays.

Typical project parameters

• Live load class125 – 250 psf typical (300+ for dense pallet)
• Deck size4,000 – 25,000 sqft single-tier
• Clear height typicalbuilding 24 ft / deck 12 ft
• Access stairs1 main + pallet drop or 2 stairs (egress)
• Install window2 – 5 days off-hours / weekend
• Lead time5 – 9 weeks from sign-off