We do small too!

Alba Systems have installed some very large projects recently, but just remember we will look at any size of project just like this dinky little floor installed recently in Aberdeen for an oil industry customer.  For more information on Alba Mezzanine floors have a look on our website or have a look at our Yell.com page and view our video. 

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Keep it Open!

Following on from the successful fit out of a mezzanine floor for the prestigious Kitchen supplier Ashley Ann Kitchens at their Wick head office and manufacturing centre, they discovered they had a space requirement in their Stirling Hub.

Alba was contacted again to advise on the best solution to help clear space on the floor area that they arranger orders of kitchen units for dispatch. The first photo below shows how congested the floor space was before Alba got to work. The best solution on this occasion was to provide an openwork floor which allows you to maximise the area of mezzanine within the building without having the expense of fire rating the structure. The open steel grating supplied had small enough apertures to allow a pallet truck to be used on the top level. Alba installed a Q-Dek mezzanine open deck to 3/4 of the building giving the customer an entire new upper level to be used as storage.

If you could benefit from Alba's unrivalled advice (Remember its free) please contact us to arrange a visit or call us for an informal chat.

 

 

Roll out the Barrel....

Alba Systems have just completed a multi-level staircase to allow access to whiskey barrels at Inverhouse Distillers.

To be called Scotch Whiskey the product has to be kept in a cask for a minimum of three years.
The barrels have to be checked periodically to check the Angels aren't helping themselves to a cheeky wee extra share.

After the racking was installed Alba Systems installed an impressive three level staircase with a top level at almost 8M to provide access to the barrels of the liquid gold.

Whilst touring the site Stuart Torrance of Alba Systems witnessed a barrel of 50 year old whiskey being opened and sent for bottling. It's incredible to think the guy who laid the cask to rest 50 years ago will be long retired as it was laid down to mature in May 1964.

Stair to nowhere....

Alba has just completed one of three large staircase structures at a site in Runcorn in Cheshire.
This Stair leads nowhere at the moment...Why?

The Staircases are fire escapes that are to be clad in a one hour fire rated enclosures as safe means of escape from the large 3 tier mezzanine floor.

Once the staircases are complete and encased the mezzanine structure will be installed giving the customer four floors of storage in this large warehouse.

Alba installation team leader Phil McCabe commented "I can build these things with my eyes shut, which I do because I'm scared of heights"

Look out for more details on this as this project develops.

Edinburgh Mosque obtain additional classroom space.

                                          (Completed Structure ready for Glass Balustrade)
Alba Systems were approached to help a space problem at a busy Mosque that was especially crowded on  Fridays, the main prayer day. The Mosque is situated in an old church hall and a standard proprietary system was not a possible solution due to the wooden floor.
Based on our expertise of non standard applications we fixed into the brick building columns where possible and the main support columns were taking down into foundations in the basement area.

                                         (Wall Plate Fixings using Chemical resin anchors)

                                         

                                        (Completed upper level ready for classroom activities)  

The upper level will be used as classroom space to teach young children and as additional prayer space.

Stuart Torrance of Alba Systems commented: "Most standard mezzanine floor manufacturers would pass up on a job like this as it requires a bit of in-house structural engineering and a lot of non standard details. Alba are gaining a reputation for being able to put in mezzanine platforms in the unlikeliest of spaces but still at a proprietary system cost.  The Mosque has now commissioned us to put in a similar mezzanine in their second hall on the same site"

Mezzanine Gallery installed ready for new tenant.

Alba Systems have  just completed another Q-Dek Mezzanine floor installation for one of our distributors in Glasgow.

It's not often we get a clear unit to work in so this ensured installation was completed in double quick time, this photograph was taken mid afternoon on the second day on site.

This gives the new tenant a place to put all their storage items when the move into the unit.

For more information contact us through our website www.albasystems.co.uk

Can I put a mezzanine floor in an upstairs office?

Alba Systems were called into investigate if  it was possible to install a mezzanine floor into a 150 year old grain store in Edinburgh that had been converted into an office building.

The customer occupied the first floor and needed to expand, the building had a high vaulted ceiling but the floor was not load bearing enough to take a mezzanine structure.
After Alba engineers visited site we came up with a unique solution.

Stuart Torrance of Alba Systems: "The customer required additional office space within the existing room. Normally mezzanine floors are free standing and bolted to the floor slab but in this situation the floor wasn't capable of supporting the point loads. We decided to use the existing 150 year old cast iron columns as support on the front edge where there wasn't any walls to attach to.
This then though up the problem that something like this could be brittle to drill into or even weld.
We decided on circular column clamps to attached to these as you see in the picture. The other end of the structure was bolted back into the hidden limestone wall using chemical anchors.

The installation of this was carried out at a weekend when the staff weren't in , we also used a crane to lift the steelwork through a first floor window.

This again demonstrates the flexibility of Alba to carry out projects that don't fall under the standard modular mezzanine you buy from most manufacturers. We also designed the structural element in-house and applied and obtained the building warrant within two weeks from Edinburgh City Council"

For more information on mezzanine floors from the unusual to the more standard, large or small visit our website  or give us a call and get one of our team to pay you a visit to discuss your requirements.