DOCUMENT STORAGE WAREHOUSE

Successful management and secure protection of other companies records is one of Iron Mountain’s primary tasks. If you visited the company’s Daganzo de Arriba centre near Madrid, you would encounter aisle upon aisle of pallet racking, brimming with archival boxes and cabinets that stretch out almost as far as the eye can see. The installation’s tailor-made design boasts six mezzanine floors, crisscrossed by two wide central aisles that connect with remaining access lanes which are significantly narrower, so as to optimise every square meter of available space. The resulting facility boasts a storage capacity of close to 500,000 boxes that are completely accessible and managed by a specially-designed software package.

The structure is gradually completed in blocks of approximately 625m² as if it were a Meccano set, since its inauguration. This, however, is always done respecting the six floors and the general design; from above each aisle is in the shape of a cross and measures 2,9m in width, from which the remaining much narrower aisles measuring 0,80m radiate. “The operators move along the wider aisles with pallet trucks loaded with the boxes organized on pallets: these are later passed over the lightweight in trolleys to gain access to the remaining aisles”, says Nicolás Sánchez. In this way, “every square meter is used”, he points out. Another significant point is that the frames which support the floors of the wide aisles withstand a weight of 1,200kg/m² while those of the narrow aisles supports 250kg/m².

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

Surface Area Occupied by the Racking as of February 2004: 3,000m²
Warehouse Height: 16m
No of Floors: 6
No of Load Levels per Floor: 2
No of Hoists: 1
Capacity in February 2004: 458,000 Boxes