Workspace must evolve to keep pace with the needs of its users. Be it people, machinery, stock, or processes, business leaders are often faced with the challenge of maximising existing assets. In a world of shrinking budgets and increasing costs, it makes sense to make the most of what you’ve got. One of the most cost-effective methods is to use industrial partitions.
Here, we share our top 5 tips to repurpose existing workspace, using different types of industrial partitions.
1. Segregate Air and Noise Pollution
Keeping workers safe and preventing contamination are easily achieved with industrial partition walls. Single skin industrial steel partitions protect employees from air pollution. Double skin steel partitions reduce noise pollution in industrial environments and support compliance with workplace regulations, such as Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005.
Steel partitioning is demountable and can be relocated as required. Windows and doors can be incorporated for monitoring purposes, where processes and people always remain in full view.
For food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industry suppliers, factory partitions are a fully flexible system to meet GMP, Good Manufacturing Practices. Lightweight and adaptable, factory partitions are used to create a controlled production area. To enter stringently controlled supply chains, manufacturers must maintain high-quality, contamination-free production processes and materials.
2. Secure Storage of High-Value Goods
Whether you are a chocolatier storing champagne or a PCB manufacturer storing precious metals, you are likely to need a secure storage area for high-value stocks. Steel partitions fitted with a secure entry door control access to valuable goods to discourage theft and prevent damage. Industrial partitions are fast to install with minimal disruption, offering short lead times. A solid, flat surface to anchor the structure is all that is required to accommodate a secure storage area.
3. Install a Control Room or Laboratory
Businesses undertaking hazardous or sensitive processes may expect the installation a laboratory to be too great an expense. Comparing market opportunities against the cost of compliance often forms a barrier to growth. However, industrial partitions can be used to create control rooms and laboratories, complete with monitoring windows and airlocks.
Control room design, governed by ISO 11064, must take ergonomic principles into consideration. Steel partitioning might sound like the last material to use in the creation of a user-centric workspace, but it is one of the most popular methods to install a low-cost control room. Double skin steel partitions provide the opportunity to include insulation, such as rockwool, and meet fire-rating requirements. Double skin industrial partitioning offers enhanced performance while remaining highly cost effective.
4. New Office and Meeting Spaces
If you are struggling to accommodate a growing workforce or don’t have space to conduct meetings in private, industrial office partitions are the ideal solution. With the option to add insulation, windows, doors, and heating, businesses can create warm and comfortable offices and meeting rooms.
Look for an industrial partitions installer with a comprehensive range of services, including M&E (mechanical and electrical), furniture and storage, plumbing and heating, and floors and ceilings. This ensures the job can be completed quickly by a single contractor.
5. Improve Staff Facilities
Need a staff canteen or breakout space? Perhaps a bigger locker or first aid room? Industrial partitions are cost-effective and fast to install. Add windows for a brighter staff space, or just a door for privacy purposes. Choose a double skin steel partition to benefit from insulation and sound pollution reduction.
For the shortest lead times, pick a supplier offering the full scope of installation and finishing services. This ensures you only have to deal with just one contractor who will quickly deliver a ready-to-use space.
For all your industrial partition needs, get a quote from Prodek. With a comprehensive range of industrial partitions, including steel partitions, factory partitions, and stylish glass office partitions. The benefit of working with Prodek is our one-stop-contractor offering. Not only do Prodek offer a full survey, design, and industrial partition installation service, we also provide a full fit-out service including:
✔️ Floors and ceilings
✔️ M&E (mechanical and electrical)
✔️ Plumbing and heating
✔️ Office furniture and storage
