compact Case Studies

Project: BS5454 : 2000 Archive. Product: Clearstore shelving on Maxstor mobile bases. Material Stored: Archive boxes, books and maps. Brief To design a mobile storage system, fully compliant with the requirements of BS5454:2000. This entailed carrying out a detailed survey of the stored items and then designing a system to accommodate the variety of different types of items, […]

Project: Tape Archive Product: Deltastor shelving on Maxistor bases Material Stored: A variety of music tape formats Brief To review and refurbish archive tape storage The original tape storage area was not very well used. Starting with a list of the different types of media to be archived, we carried out a further survey and then designed a system that would move […]

Material Stored: Archive boxes and Files Brief Two-tier Mezzanine Storage without the mezzanine. The Forensic Science Service had a warehouse storage facility where only the ground floor area was being utilised. Compact and a number of other suppliers were asked to submit solutions to what was a vast waste of space. Conventional wisdom suggested a mezzanine structure with […]

Project: New Warehouse Facility Product: Narrow aisle Pallestor Material Stored: Foodstuffs Brief Maximum capacity with 100% accessibility The client required a high density, fully accessible design to accommodate a wide range of stored items. The mix of storage changes on a regular basis, necessitating a fully-adjustable pallet racking system. The specification of the forklift trucks was crucial to […]

Project: Film Tape Archive & Offsite Storage Facility Product: Multistor Racking, Mezzstor, Deltastor Shelving & Maxstor Bases Material Stored: Film & music tape formats Brief To enable the storage of up to 800,000 video tapes for a wide variety of clients & design a fully flexible offsite storage facility for a variety of film can and tape formats.. […]

Project: File Storage for new headquarters Product: Deltastor shelving on Flexistor & Maxistor bases Material Stored: Files & file boxes Brief To design mobile storage systems to accommodate a wide range of files, both loose and in boxed form, in a new HQ building—including relocation and integration of existing storage systems from the previous HQ building. Detailed file […]

Project: New HQ Building Product: Storage Systems Architect: Thomas Saunders Partnership Brief To carry out, with the architect, a detailed assessment of the Trust’s existing storage and, in discussion with all parties, to analyze their needs for a new, purpose-built HQ building. This meant understanding any problems or difficulties with the existing environment and sourcing suitable storage systems […]

Project: Customer Selfserve Product: Pallestor racking & pushback carriages Material Stored: IKEA product Lines Brief To design an innovative approach to the storage and management of retail stock, using a more condensed format in order to increase the space available for front-of-store retail use. Our successful design incorporated high-density, electronically-operated, mobile pallet racking, servicing specially-designed push-back racking and […]

How we helped Village Hotels with their new furniture for their hotel portfolio. Founded in 1995 Village Hotels aspired to have hotel complexes on the outskirts of many of the significant cities and towns around the United Kingdom and have already made significant headway into achieving that goal. Having been purchased by the KSL Group recently, […]

Read about Compact Storage fitted out Virgin Active’s flagship gym in the centre of London. Virgin Active is the health and wellness branch of Virgin Group. It boasts centres throughout the UK and around the world. They are highly regarded as one of the most progressive and innovative health and fitness establishments around – being […]

Read about how we helped Utility Warehouse with their own bespoke desking solution. The Utility Warehouse is a multi-utility supplier, home grown in London. Owned by Telecom Plus, Utility Warehouse boasts well over half a million customers and nearly forty-five thousand distributors who sell the brand on recommendation and the promise of savings for those […]

Read about how Compact completed the production of bespoke office furniture in double quick time. Health and wellness are an increasingly expanding market. Holland and Barrett, one of the top retailers in this sector have over 550 stores up and down the country supplying vitamins, supplements and minerals to the British public for several years. The company […]