Benefits of Mezzanines and Equipment Platforms

A retail shop is having trouble storing overstocked merchandise. Fortunately, the store owner decided to have a mezzanine floor built into the structure. Now, when products start to pile up, they’re carried up to that intermediate level and safely stored until needed. Equipment platforms carry out a similar duty. Assembled out of steel beams and lattice-worked steel floor panels, this time the intermediate flooring holds equipment, not shop merchandise.

Solving Equipment Accessibility Issues 

So a building’s primary plant room is filled with heavy equipment. The gear cools or heats or somehow conditions the air and water that’s distributed on all floors and in all rooms. Consider the size of the equipment supporting a larger than average structure. Massive air handling units and ducting conduits are running off to the left and right. Above and below the ducts, hot water pipes are exiting heat exchangers and colossal boilers. All that HVAC gear, it reaches to the ceiling of this high-vaulted room. Mezzanines and equipment platforms hold the heavy gear and allow maintenance workers to access the uppermost sections of these labyrinthine systems. A ladder here, a terraced steel frame section there, the solid framework performs like a scaffolding tower, except this structure is permanent. Planted in concrete and fastened to every nearby wall, the equipment platforms are there for the long haul.

Supporting Exterior Equipment Platforms 

Structurally reliable, a mezzanine level is stretching across a large area above a chemical processing plant. The floor grating is easily holding the equipment, plus any maintenance workers and safety rails. Up here, the optimized space is mounted with processing vessels and tanks. Pipes and venting stacks are rising from the metal decking. Meanwhile, perhaps in a nearby warehouse, space optimizing mezzanine levels are there to support exceptionally tall storage shelves. The bins are loaded with product, and only a climb up a staircase, then a passage across a nearby catwalk can grant access to the required bin number.

In a plant room, control panels and power systems are on the floor. Equipment racks are then mounted on platforms above those control stations. Similarly, equipment decking, furnished with mesh steel flooring and safety rails, is framing the towers and large equipment assemblies on some large-scale chemical processing facility. To put it another way, these intermediate levels, built from durable steel, are performing an essential duty. They’re making it possible for equipment assemblies to move in three dimensions. Up and out, the ground level carries control devices and commonly sold products. Meanwhile, on the various equipment platforms, additional equipment bases are installed securely on these mezzanine levels.

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