City Furniture s New Mezzanines with ResinDek Flooring Expands Product Storage and Creates Employee Training Center
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CINCINNATI, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ With no room to expand its 940,000-square-foot Tamarac, Florida headquarters horizontally, City Furniture s (cityfurniture.com) Managing Director of Facilities Ian Peshel was tasked with figuring out how to create additional space for both employee training and inventory storage. Working with Billy Lindler Jr., President of United Steel Storage Inc. (USSI) (ussipartners.com), the pair decided to build two new mezzanines in separate areas of the 750,000-square-foot main warehouse.
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Although Peshel initially considered concrete construction for both mezzanines, he discovered that a concrete slab floor required costly foundations, footings, and support. That s when USSI recommended ResinDek as an alternative, he said.
After assessing the options, Peshel determined that ResinDek® engineered wood flooring panels from Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products, LLC® (resindek.com) were both lighter and less expensive than concrete. For both mezzanines City Furniture selected ResinDek LD with the Gray Diamond Seal® 2 finish, a cost-effective engineered composite wood flooring that supports dynamic and static pallet jack loads up to 2,000 pounds. One of the real benefits of ResinDek on the cost side was not only was it cheaper than using concrete, but it also greatly reduced the weight and the structural load that the columns would have to carry. That reduced the size of the columns and the size of the footings, which was a substantial cost savings, he said.