Promises do not come any bigger than the ProShed 50 initiative from ProLogis. The project management team have learned a lot while constructing some 200 buildings across Europe and many of these lessons have come together with ProShed.
Innovative working practices along with ever-shortening timescales, ProLogis assembled a supply team with the sole purpose to create a new way of building; in short, to build quicker, smarter and more intelligently but without cost implication. Initially the challenge was to question every construction norm and turn the whole process on its head. From this came the innovative Matris Grid Design, a system whereby a customer can have complete flexibility with the size of their building using off-the-shelf plans. This pre-designed approach eliminates lead-in periods ensuring a speedy build. |
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Advances in safety, such as the unique handrail system, now ensure on-site labour can work safely and efficiently in a clean, controlled environment.
An approach more in common with the automotive industry was used to pre-design and fabricate to a JIT approach to warehouse construction. The use of pre-fabricated parts manufactured in a controlled environment ensures high quality and on-time delivery, eliminating unnecessary on-site labour.
The result is a revolution in project delivery with lower costs, increased quality and construction times slashed, as result which not only benefits ProLogis customers, but the project management teams and the construction industry as a whole.
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