Seamless connection

Herchenbach’s temporary buildings are frequently used by industrial companies, trading firms and manufacturing – most often for many years at one given location. The structural design of all Herchenbach buildings is therefore in compliance with BS EN 1991. 

One of its customers is an international transport company for packaging in the food industry, whose current warehouse was built in 2011. It is used extensively and forms an important part of the customer’s on-site intra logistics processes. A new, on-site warehouse was required as an extension and needed to be connected to the current warehouse at two points.

Given that the existing building was constructed on the basis of a now non-current static standard, the seamless connection between the existing building and the new warehouse was a challenge. In particular, the required frame distance was now 4 meters compared to 5 meters at the existing building. Herchenbach’s engineering team however developed an efficient solution to cleanly connect the two warehouse buildings. Without delays, all was set for the installation of a 20 m wide x 55 m length x 6,40m eaves height new temporary warehouse. Some of the new structure features included a canopy area to be used as a lorry loading zone, custom-made rolling doors and push-bar emergency exit doors, and rain guttering around the accessories.  

Besides the solution to connect the two buildings, Herchenbach also advised the customer on the building’s optimal specifications.