Pushing the envelope
ISD Solutions, a leader in single envelope cold store construction, has completed a multi-million euro frozen and chilled storage facility for Spanish pharmaceutical and healthcare giant Grifols.
The warehouse forms part of the company’s new International Logistics Centre on the IDA Business Park in Grange Castle, Dublin.
The 12 month project has involved the design and construction of two temperature controlled clad-rack structures to provide centralised storage and distribution for blood plasma products. The supporting structure comprises a Jungheinrich high-rack storage system, with cranes and conveyors, which provides automated storage, sorting and retrieval, enveloped by high performance insulated panels to form a thermally efficient single envelope skin for each of the two buildings. In total 9,000m2 of PIR insulated panels were used in the construction.
ISD Solutions had total responsibility for the insulated envelope and door design, creating both a high bay frozen chamber supporting temperatures down to -35 degrees C and an adjacent 35m high chilled storage area. Achieving an efficient air tight structure was crucial and the buildings easily exceed design specifications with test measurements of 0.4m3 /hour/m2 at 50 Pascals for both chambers.
ISD Solutions pioneered the design and construction of large scale single envelope cold store projects using self-finished composite panel technology and was chosen as the only contractor with specific experience in building similar clad rack structures.
Jason Denning, commercial manager of ISD Solutions, said: “At over 35 metres high, this is one of the tallest single envelope clad-rack warehouses in which we have been involved. Working at these heights presents added construction difficulties so we have our own in house Health and Safety expertise to ensure risk-free installation methods and HSE procedures are followed to the letter.”
