FRANKLINS DISTRIBUTION CENTRE
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Contract Value
$23.5M
Construction Period
JULY 1993 - MAY 1994
Client
FRANKLINS LTD
Located on a 13 hectare site landscaped with over 5000 native trees, the fully insulated warehouse is 17.5 metres at its highest point. Facilities include 33 despatch docks, 21 receiving docks, central site security, full bistro, forklift/pallet truck maintenance areas, truck fuel/washing/maintenance workshop and a waste management station.
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Featuring the latest warehouse technology, Franklins Distribution Centre services more than 140 outlets throughout New South Wales. With 50,000m2 of undercover storage and a capacity of 50,000 pallets, at the time of construction this warehouse had the largest pallet capacity in the Southern Hemisphere.
Located on a 13 hectare site landscaped with over 5000 native trees, the fully insulated warehouse is 17.5 metres at its highest point. Facilities include 33 despatch docks, 21 receiving docks, central site security, full bistro, forklift/pallet truck maintenance areas, truck fuel/washing/maintenance workshop and a waste management station.
Baulderstone's project team developed special procedures and methods to produce a high performance floor that set new standards for large warehouses.
One of the major criteria was a work-hardened floor with excellent abrasion resistance and minimal joints. This highly durable floor had the precise tolerances required to cope with continual, rapid forklift movement and provide stability to lift material into racks up to 15 metres high. Each pour measured 40m x 70m and the 60mpa high strength concrete had low-shrink and crack-free properties. Tolerances of +1/-2mm on a three metre straight-edge and +1/-4mm overall were achieved, constituting a very flat floor finish.
The use of Chevron joints across the aisles was also incorporated into the slab design to minimise impact on powered pallet trucks. These joints were opened up with saw cuts, then resealed with a 100mpa epoxy filling. Quality control included live testing for the running of pallet and fork trucks, proving the effectiveness of our team's design and construction techniques.
