Meantime Brewery

The Challenge

To build a level mezzanine floor on a sloping floor that could be removed once its feet had been  cemented in to bunded slab.

With the business constantly growing, 2012 saw greater expansion by expanding the brewery  operation to the recently acquired unit next door needing a mezzanine floor for production and storage.

The challenge was to relocate the bottle and keg filling lines within a tight and agreed timescale to not delay the brewing process. Together with the floor needing to be level on a purposely designed base (to enable liquid drainage).
The mezzanine floor installation had to be built first on a level floor with a sloping floor laid over the feet, to add to the complex design the floor in parts need to be dismantled after this process allowing new vessels into another area.

The Solution

To carefully plan the project and divide it into time critical phases to coincide with the arrival of movement of large brewing vessels.

STS set about working with the Meantime Brewery project manager together with the flooring and brewing equipment supplier to understand the critical timelines and complexities. Consideration was made to overlaying the mezzanine floor design around the various machinery, with a focus to cut around areas where routine access was necessary.

Due to timing the mezzanine floor needed to be built and then partially removed to allow a large vessels to be installed, the issue was that the sloping floor was to be built afterwards, effectively concreting the legs in situ. STS Storage Systems came up with a sleeved solution. This allowed the column to slot in and out of its baseplate location to allow brewing equipment to flow freely.

How We Achieved It !

Mezzanine Floor

• Mezzanine floor built to BRE 437
• Removable mezzanine columns
• P5 Moisture resistant flooring
• Cut outs for equipment access
• Washable fire rated ceiling

Warehouse Lighting

• New high bay lighting
• Sealed IP65 lighting under mezzanine
• Works completed to NIC EIC standard

Drive IN Racking

• 25 Lanes wide x 12 pallets deep
• 8 metre Stow Drive IN system
• Floor guidance to lanes
• 4 Levels of storage