Upgraded to VNA specification
October 1st 2005

A 60 year old industrial building where the UK’s first jet engines were built by Sir Frank Whittle during WWII has been successfully transformed into a high-bay warehouse with the installation of a new highspecification floor by the Concrete Grinding Group.

The warehouse, near Leicester, measures 80m long, 20m wide and 15m high and is the latest development by Rutlandbased logistics company, CS Ellis (Group). Following the refurbishment project, it is now operated as a narrow aisle warehouse with wire guided lift trucks operating five runs of 14m racking.

The original floor was in poor condition and contained steel rails, deep holes and other problems, so a 180mm concrete slab was laid on top of it to the Concrete Society’s TR34 Category 1 standard. Using laser screeding equipment, this part of the project took only five days.

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

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

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