Warehouse Guides
How to coordinate engineers, builders and operations in a warehouse fit-out
Warehouse fit-out coordination failures originate in the structural gaps that multi-contract procurement creates between designers, fabricators, installers, certifiers and the client's operations team, not in the competence of any individual party. The coordination model chosen at the outset of the project determines how much of that risk the project manager carries throughout the programme.
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Integrating racking, mezzanines and automation into one warehouse fit-out
Multi-system warehouse fit-outs fail not because individual systems are poorly designed, but because they are designed in isolation. Structural engineers, racking suppliers and automation integrators each work from separate briefs, optimise for their own scope and produce drawings that have never been reconciled against each other. The clashes that result from this approach appear on site, at the point where resolving them is most expensive and most disruptive to the project program. The coordination framework that prevents these failures is not complicated, but it must be established at concept stage, not during installation.
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