Some of those imports need processing, so we are going to see modern, high-bay warehouses.

Fire in a high-bay warehouse is likely to burn rapidly upwards.

The Working Party has confined its considerations to high-bay warehouses over 10 metres high.

High-bay warehouses, as a single volume, can normally be considered as being single storey buildings.

Logistic capacity was substantially boosted with the introduction of the computer-managed high-bay warehouse (1983).

Like in a high-bay warehouse, medicaments are stored in random storage according to their size and height.

A review of on-site fire protection equipment available for fighting fires in high-bay warehouses stating its advantages and disadvantages.

The only practical and total form of automatic fire protection suitable for high-bay warehouses is the automatic sprinkler system.

It is suggested that no compartment of a high-bay warehouse should be bigger than is able to be covered by one sprinkler system.

Kardex Mlog manufactures and sells automated high-bay warehouses and customized materials handling systems.

Invariably sprinklers systems protecting high-bay warehouses will require pumped water supplies drawing from suction tanks providing ninety minutes supply.

Fire fighting problems of high-bay warehouses are characterised by large amounts of fuel, arranged in a cellular manner to facilitate deposit and retrieval.

These systems are developed individually for each pharmacy or hospital and store medication supplies as if in a high-bay warehouse without being ordered by size or depth.

The internal contents-density of high-bay warehouses is increasing, restricting the use of ladders and making the problem of manipulation of all portable equipment proportionally difficult.

Details of the current Fire Offices' Committee Rules are specified in chapter 4 - Insurers Requirements for High-Bay Warehouses.

A statement of Home Office and Department of Environment philosophy as to the approach of Building Regulations relaxations and fire fighting in high-bay warehouses.

Deutsche Papier Vertriebs GmbH, which belongs to PaperlinX, runs, as a nationally active paper wholesaler, one of Germany's most modern high-bay warehouses.

It has been stated in this document that only two small fires have occurred in high-bay warehouses over 10 metres high of which there are probably more than 5,000 in existence throughout the world.

However, the internal layout of high-bay warehouses, the high degree of contents-density, limited access and the likelihood of rapid fire spread reduces the possibility of success by conventional fire fighting methods.

The most significant piece of information which resulted from the study was that after a world wide search no evidence emerged that a serious outbreak of fire had occurred in a high-bay warehouse over 10 metres high.

Systems using heat detectors are inappropriate for high-bay warehouses bearing in mind that their response will be little ahead of the sprinkler system, which itself will provide an alarm signal both locally and to the Fire Brigade.

Whilst automatically operated high-bay warehouses tend to be designed to exclude personnel when in operation, special precautions have to be taken to ensure that unauthorized personnel do not gain access, notably with man-rider operated equipment.

During 1979 various County and Metropolitan areas submitted Bills to the House of Commons for new powers and the designer is advised to check if any Act has been passed which could affect the proposed location of the high-bay warehouse.

Notwithstanding the Working Party's efforts to clarify and simplify the problem of providing protection against fire in high-bay warehouses it must be made clear that the subject is one where there is a significant difference of opinion amongst experts as to the most effective method.

The question asked by a number of would-be high-bay constructors was whether insurers and legislators (both in central and local government) were overemphasizing the dangers of fire in high-bay warehouses and also whether they really understood the significant differences existing between different classifications of system.

Installations from the largest high bay warehouse to the smallest single run store all benefit from the advantages of our rack.

The concept was developed from REID's long experience making very wide span aircraft hangars and high bay warehouses.

He has also immersed himself in the field of solar technology and designed the façade of a high bay warehouse in Coeseld-Lette using photovoltaic modules.

The 'stables' are the stations where the onboard battery is recharged overnight and the feeding area is the high bay warehouse which stores over 8,000 pallets of lubricants.

The rear of the superstore houses refrigerated storage facilities and a high bay warehouse area, adjustable metal racking is utilised to form a mezzanine storage level providing increased capacity.

The high bay warehouses feature automatic stacker cranes in aisles and the interlocks restrict, and keep safe, access to the crane aisles, and control of the cranes.

Campus 2, located by the container port, constitutes UNICEF's new state of the art high bay warehouse and is currently considered to be the world's largest non-food humanitarian warehouse.

On a daily basis, between 2.00am and 6.00am, the day's orders are analysed and the goods in the high bay warehouse required to fulfil them are moved forward from their existing storage locations into the hot zone.

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Goods retrieved from the high bay warehouse by one of 13 pallet handling stacker cranes or seven bin handling cranes, will be automatically conveyed some 250 m to the manufacturing centre via a conveyorised bridge linking the two facilities.