WAREHOUSE

STEEL WAREHOUSE BUILDINGS

Name: Summit Steel Buildings
Address: 22420 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge, BC, CA
Telephone: 877-417-8335

As Canadian industry continues to grow, businesses are required to invest in expanding their production capacity. Warehousing is one of the most important factors in supply chain management – a lack of which a bottleneck that creates disorganization and delay. Canada’s supply of available warehouse space is at an all-time low. Publications have cited an immediate need for Canadian businesses to expand their inventory footage to address this shortage of space. Summit Steel Buildings has the custom warehousing solutions that can be built quickly and cost effectively to meet your unique business challenges. Read our case study on the construction we've done for FCMP Outdoor. We can provide you with increased operational capacity that will meet your short- and long-term business goals.

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Warehousing Capacity

What we think of as traditional warehousing has been changing due to e-commerce. Companies like Amazon, Shopify and e-Bay, and even traditional retailers like Walmart and Hudson’s Bay, are adapting to the new realities of delivery and convenience with their distribution centres. However, the need for wholesale and industrial warehousing space is greater than ever. According to Statistics Canada, monthly retails sales are eclipsed by wholesale sales by over 30% ($54.8 billion versus $71.5 billion in April 2021). That’s a lot of material and goods to manufacture, store and ship. Operations require space – lots of protected and climate-controlled space.

Warehouse space is a valuable investment because of the future revenue it creates and due to its real estate value (both size and location). The benefit of building new is that you get the exact structure you need and don’t have to worry about retrofitting or dealing with old structural damage. As well, going with an older building may not give you the layout you need or may not be able to accommodate your equipment or layout.

Whether you are a growing business requiring additional space or a small business that finds self storage insufficient and a traditional warehouse too big, a flexible arrangement of building both office and warehousing together in one facility is a practical solution. You can customize your steel building space to suit the size and needs of your enterprise.

Summit Steel Buildings will design your warehouse space to include any modern distribution facilities, such as automated storage and retrieval systems and pick pods or conveyors. We can accommodate automated workflow (including your conveyors and robotic systems) and can maximize storage space with stable vertical racking systems.

Although each warehouse and distribution center project will have its own particular set of requirements, Summit Steel Buildings builds custom pre-engineered structures to meet a variety of needs:

Flex warehouses: Single-story buildings that can be used as both warehouse and as an office.
General warehouses (heated or unheated): A distribution center that typically includes rack and bin storage, bulk storage, aisle spacing, packing space and loading docks for non-perishable goods.
Refrigerated warehouses: Facilities is to preserve perishable products, including chill-and-freeze space, a processing area and mechanical zones.
Controlled-humidity warehouses: Similar to general warehouses but used to store goods that are sensitive to high or low levels of humidity. Construction generally involves vapor barriers and are equipped with HVAC systems, which can maintain humidity at a required level.