Small industrial spaces often present big challenges. When your business activities grow, but your footprint can’t expand to match, you need smart solutions that make every square metre count.
Fortunately, modern workspace design offers a few ingenious strategies for multiplying your usable space without moving premises.
Read on as we explore highly effective, practical methods for maximising every inch of your industrial space.
The goal? Unlocking your building’s hidden potential without breaking the bank.
Looking Up: The Power of Vertical Space
Most industrial units have one vastly underutilised asset – the space above their heads.
While ground floor space often reaches capacity quickly, vertical space remains unused. A warehouse mezzanine creates an entirely new floor within your existing building, offering a practical solution to space constraints without the need for relocation.
Installing warehouse mezzanine floors demands careful planning, but in many cases, it’s transformative. You’ll free up valuable ground-floor space and can offload appropriate activities and/or storage to the mezzanine level.
Smarter Storage Solutions
To optimise space, you’ll first need to thoroughly rethink your current storage methods.
For many workspaces, modern storage can dramatically increase capacity while improving business workflows, accessibility, and stock management.
Consider the following:
- Narrow Aisle Racking: High shelves placed closer together to increase storage capacity. Designed for use with specialised forklifts to maintain accessibility.
- Mobile Shelving: Shelving units that slide along tracks, removing the need for fixed aisles and making better use of space.
- Multi-Tier Storage: Shelving built on multiple levels, using vertical space efficiently for easier stock access.
By combining these solutions, businesses can significantly increase storage without expanding their footprint – turning wasted space into extra capacity.
Optimising Business Workflows
A warehouse fit-out doesn’t merely contribute storage to your space – it’s about fundamentally improving workflows, productivity, and employee wellbeing.
That starts with a detailed analysis of how your space is used, revealing opportunities to:
- Create efficient picking routes: Minimising unnecessary movement so staff can locate and retrieve items faster.
- Organise packing areas: Ensuring packing stations are positioned logically with easy access to materials, reducing delays.
- Improve loading bay flow: Designing clear entry and exit points to prevent bottlenecks and speed up dispatch.
- Separate fast and slow-moving stock: Placing high-demand items in accessible locations to reduce handling time.
By approaching your workflows with a strategic mindset, you can significantly boost warehouse performance without total overhaul.
Ready to Maximise Your Workspace?
Compact industrial spaces can still support business growth without the need to relocate or extend. From installing mezzanines to reorganising workflows, where there’s a will, there’s a way!
Of course, working with experts matters. At Spaceway, our team of specialists can help you identify the best opportunities in your current space, whether through better storage solutions, smarter workflows, or mezzanine installations that add valuable extra floor space.
We’ll kick things off with a thorough space assessment to understand your challenges and identify opportunities. Then we’ll create a practical plan to help you get more from every square metre.
To get started, contact us today for a free survey.