Cold Storage buildings
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Ensure high operational efficiency
Cold storage solutions
We have extensive experience in the best configuration for the installation and integration of your chiller room and freezer rooms.
Our experts go through each stage of the process from the initial consultation through to the design and then the finished building. This ensures that the cold room you have specified meets your requirements.
During the development of your project, we welcome the opportunity to work in close cooperation with you, your architects, engineers and process suppliers. Early collaboration in the design process often leads to innovative designs and cost savings.
Do you need a building to optimize your cold storage and improve thermal efficiency?
With Astron pre-engineered steel buildings you can reach significant savings by simplifying construction and improving thermal efficiency.
Whether you need a small pre-cooling chamber or a large blast freezing chamber, Astron's cold storage buildings are flexible with respect to the building dimensions, so your building can always be individually optimised for you.
Advantages
- Free span up to 100 m
- Fast delivery time
- Fixed prices
- Reliable deadlines
We propose reduced thermal bridges, free plenum for optimum technical equipment installation, efficient insulation, and the optimised integration of your cooling systems. To be able to meet the challenges of cold storages, it’s essential for us to provide buildings that are suitable for the integration of all cold chain operations.
Buildings with multiple temperature zones
Specifically designed for fast chilling, temperature, humidity and atmosphere control, with our construction process you can achieve multiple temperature zones in the buildings.
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Cold storage design and construction
Building design and layout for cold storage
Basically, the floor area needed for refrigerated storage can be calculated by determining the maximum amount of product the facility will be expected to handle in units of volume divided by the storage height. Storage height is usually about 2 m, the height of a pallet load. Pallet bins are sometimes stacked to a height of over 3 m. To this area, add space for corridors and space for lift truck movement.
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Airflow solutions
Maintain uniform air temperatures
Adequate airflow is needed to distribute refrigerated air throughout the facility and maintain uniform air temperatures. Airflow maintains adequate temperature uniformity. This can be done by the intermittent operation of fans, or by keeping the fans constantly on but reducing their speed with an electronic speed control system. Slow airspeeds reduce moisture loss from the product. Airflow must be distributed uniformly throughout the cold room to minimize temperature variability.
Airflow can also be important in the technical rooms and plenum for cooling and condensation control.
Refrigeration design
Early collaboration in the design process often leads to innovative designs and cost savings
Cold storage buildings have many different features that make a difference in maintaining the desired temperature and relative humidity (RH). A uniform temperature is maintained by adequate refrigeration capacity, uniform air distribution, minimal temperature difference between the evaporator coil and the air temperature, and a precise temperature control system.
The refrigeration design should also consider the best integration of the cooling installation in parallel with the building design in order to reduce, for instance, the distance between condenser and evaporator and thereby avoid losses.
Controlled atmosphere cold storage
Increase the storage times of your fruit & vegetables
Do you need a controlled atmosphere cold storage system for fresh fruit and vegetable storage?
Your building has many different features that make a difference in controlled atmosphere cold storage with specially adjusted air information. If you need to generate as much storage space as possible on the ground surface that is available, the area and especially the height of the steel building can be used in an optimal way to store goods.
Astron building solutions are designed to integrate optimum insulation and humidification devices, and appropriate humidity sensors meet the strict technical & hygiene requirements for controlled atmosphere cold storage.
Fish cold storage and blast freezing
Ensure high product quality in seafood
To ensure high product quality in seafood, it must be frozen or refrigerated as soon as possible. Our building solutions allow you to meet your cooling needs throughout the fish processing process, from processing to storage, and thereby maximize efficiency.
We have extensive experience in developing intelligent infrastructure for freezing storage, tailor-made for optimum reliability and maximum efficiency.
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Meat and meatfoods storage
Expand the storage periods of meat and meat products
Requirements for meat and meatfoods storage are very specific since various preservation methods are used. Does your building need to integrate pre-cooling chambers, storage rooms, freezing tunnels, spiral freeze etc.? We can offer you a made-to-measure envelope for your cold storage facilities.
Our teams of specialists fully customize your building to match your operational requirements.
Fruit and vegetable storage
Keep them fresh
A perfectly developed fruit and vegetable storage unit with appropriate temperature and humid conditions, made to measure, is your solution to prevent such foods from spoiling and to keep them fresh.
Banana ripening room
Let your fruit ripen to the desired taste & colour
Bananas are kept at certain temperatures, humidity and ethylene values, in special rooms with special ventilation. With a meticulous understanding of your processes, we will maximize your space utilization with a build-to-purpose building.
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Sustainable and functional
Maximize your building performance while minimizing your footprint. This can include a reduced energy use solar concept, green roof, ceiling mounted fans, water saving fixtures and equipment, proper ventilation, optimized natural lighting, etc.
FLEXIBLE
The industrial building that best adapts to your needs
# Ingenious design
Your project should start long before the construction phase. Our team provides you with different variants of building solutions, considering structural optimization, energy efficiency, natural lighting and minimized construction cost, using 3D models and BIM. Our design & build approach is reinforced by our pragmatic approach based on our experience as engineers, manufacturer and assembler in terms of functionalities and cost control. All Astron products are tailor-made, based on proven pre-engineered solutions worked out within the large group of 150 engineers in 8 European design offices.
# Evolving the design
When you start thinking about a new building, you usually have many ideas in your head – dreams, needs, concerns. At Astron we help you to turn your ideas into reality – within a fixed timeframe and a fixed budget. We translate your functional and regulatory requirements into fluid space. You validate each phase and remain the decision-maker for the proposed options: ergonomics, structure, choice of materials.
# Variable shape
Adapt your building to any type of environments. Shape, climatic & atmospheric conditions, soil & seismic characteristics, together we will find the best configuration to contribute to the profitability of your project.
# Future extensions
Your building can be designed to allow for future modifications to best accompany the development of your company, without interrupting your operations: an extension, photovoltaic installation, future cranes …or mutability.
INTELLIGENT
Your industrial building optimized in its design & realization
# Early-stage conception
At Astron we help you to turn your ideas into reality – within a fixed timeframe and a fixed budget. Our team provides you with different variants of building solutions so you can select the one which best suits your needs, the most effective with respect to future usage. It includes energy efficiency, lighting optimization and minimized construction cost. Our expert team focus on analyzing your designed building features, systems, equipment, and material selections in order to achieve essential functions at the lowest life cycle cost, consistent with the required performance, quality, reliability, and safety.
# Consistent high quality at all times
We have full control of the supply chain from purchasing through the engineering study, manufacturing to installation. The result is an increased efficiency of the entire process to ensure the right product is at the right place at the right time.
# Easy and precise assembly
A pre-engineered steel building is the key to a successful assembly. No welding or cutting should be necessary on site. Everything is thought out in advance for a precise and fast assembly of your building. We are a one-stop-shop for all of your large industrial building project needs: having all building components at the right place at the right time, for perfect job site coordination.
# Smart production
Our buildings are produced in our two manufacturing plants. The prefabrication at the plant also ensures a smooth assembly process. Astron uses smart shaped profiles. All products can be packed efficiently. 5 times more compact means 5 times less delivery cost. 1,000 m² building fit on 1 truck.
PROFITABLE
Global cost reasoning on all the items
# Speed of commissioning
The Astron solution is an excellent choice when you have tight construction schedules. Once you have a basis for the design, the systems construction will shorten the manufacturing timetable. Furthermore, the standardized parts and connections will cut building erection time by 20% or more.
# Most sustainable solution
IImagine the operating costs of your building becoming an integral part of the decision-making process in the design and construction stages. At Astron we develop innovative solutions that serve customers not only today, but during the complete lifetime of their buildings. Cost savings from efficiency gains are at the core of our strategy. Our aim is to find the best pragmatic solution for our customers for an overall efficient & sustainable building.
# Reduced operating and maintenance costs
Your building has been designed and fabricated for a low-maintenance service life. The use of high-quality raw materials and high engineering and manufacturing specifications minimize the effects of weather and other environmental factors. Your building has been carefully calculated within the structural and detail design, highest production and quality standard certified by independent certification companies. We have implemented and adhere to systems and methods like Zero-Defect Strategy, 5S, Kanban, continuous improvement system, assembly quality control and continuous maintenance.
ARCHITECTURAL
Freedom at all levels
# Extensive design freedom
Your building represents your company and its style, and serves as a showcase for customer visits.
# Adapted form
From the simplest architecture to the most sophisticated! The shape of your structure can easily be combined with the availability and constraints of your land.
# Perfect integration into the environment
Whatever your direct environment is: downtown, industrial zone, shopping center, respecting urban requirements is a priority for Astron.
# Great freedom
In order to enhance the external aspect of the structure, Astron has a multitude of options concerning the facades. Metal, stone, wood, vegetation are all materials that will perfectly match your architectural wishes.
# BIM solution
Right from the design stage, your industrial building will be imagined and drawn in 3D, ready to integrate BIM functionalities from the very first sketches.
RELIABLE
A fast and efficient process
# Single source supply
Astron helps you to turn your ideas into reality – within a fixed timeframe and a fixed budget. We use a system approach and pre-engineered products that perfectly fit together. Usually it takes 10 – 12 weeks for the complete design and production of your building. Construction is carried out by certified erectors in 4 – 8 weeks, depending on the size and complexity of the project.
One single contact person handles the process from the beginning to the very end, taking care of all the details and bearing the full responsibility until the finalization of the building.
# Building smart
A smart approach to all building components adds up to better quality and durability. Our building systems are engineered precisely to the specifications for a higher-quality building and better building performance.
# Innovative approach
Starting from a blank page, we have the ability to configure the building to best suit your needs. From the planning stage onwards, through production to the final assembly, all our employees are fully committed to customer satisfaction.
# Concept of the large span
For many years, Astron has built its reputation on free spans, without intermediate columns, from 10 to 100 m. Unobstructed, column-free spaces greater up to 100 metres are required for a variety of usages. These include activities where flexibility is key, where visibility is important, such as some manufacturing facilities, and where large movable objects are housed, such as aircraft hangars.
ECOLOGICAL
Energy saving from design to operation
# From A to Z
At Astron we strive to meet all your construction needs with attention to sustainability, providing a simplified and more environmentally friendly way to complete your construction project in every aspect of our business. Astron was one of the first players on the market to provide economical solutions for a «nearly zero-energy building» NZEB for industrial applications.
# Steel promotes sustainability
Because steel building systems start with recycled steel today and can be recycled at the end of their useful lives, systems construction outperforms all other forms of construction for life cycle analysis and least material impact on the environment.
# Certified approach
Astron is assessed by EcoVadis, an international network in the field of sustainability. The assessment focuses on global supply chains, i.e. networks of relationships between production, distribution and procurement. As an example, our optimised use of raw materials and the high recycling rate were rated very positively. The energy optimisation of the Astron buildings and the support of LEED and BREAM certificates were also honoured accordingly. The result is an energy-efficient building that is completed faster, with the highest quality and lowest risks.
