Leeds based Avanta UK Ltd successfully tendered for a large fire rated mezzanine floor installation in Bradford for a leading packaging company. The new mezzanine floor measures 254 square metres (21 x 12.1m) with a finished floor level of some 5.133 metres to match an existing floor. The client required the minimum number of columns and therefore we designed the floor with a central column which gave a clear span in one direction of 11.2m. The wide span column grid offers a loading of 7.4K/n per m/2 (750Kgs pallets) classed as medium use. The works also included boxing in columns and fitting a suspended ceiling to the under side of the mezzanine to give the client a 1 hour fire protection as staff are to be working on the floor and one edge measured in excess of 20m. The mezzanine deck wa

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