Clad rack cold storage
Single envelope cold store construction specialist, ISD Solutions, has completed a €1.8m frozen and chilled storage facility for leading Spanish pharmaceutical and healthcare giant, Grifols, in Grange Castle, Dublin.
The 12 month project has involved the design and construction of two temperature controlled clad-rack structures to provide centralised storage and distribution for blood plasma products. The supporting structure comprises a Jungheinrich high-rack storage system, with cranes and conveyors, enveloped by high performance insulated panels to form a thermally efficient single envelope skin for each of the two buildings. In total 9,000m2 of PIR insulated panels were used in the construction.
ISD Solutions had total responsibility for the insulated envelope and door design, creating both a high bay frozen chamber supporting temperatures down to -35 degrees C and an adjacent 35m high chilled storage area. Achieving an efficient air tight structure was crucial and the buildings easily exceed design specifications with test measurements of 0.4m3 / m2 at 50 Pascals for both chambers.
