Optimizing Storage Space: A Case for High Density Mobile Storage

By Montel, Inc.

For designers, space planners, architects, and facility managers, space conservation has become an important issue—not only for financial reasons, but also due to environmental considerations.

Sustainability, energy savings and low site disturbance call for new ways of designing, renovating and constructing buildings.

High-density storage systems are part of the solution by their very own green nature. By removing the multiple aisles between shelves, one can double the storage capacity or reduce the storage area by half—therefore reducing the footprint storage occupies in a facility or eliminating the need to lease, purchase or build a new facility.

More than effectively and intelligently optimizing space, high-density storage systems ultimately reduce the size of buildings, the amount of materials required for construction, the amount of energy required to heat or cool a building, and the energy required to retrieve items stored of-site. High-density storage has even helped to preserve existing buildings after renovations or adaptive building improvements for the disabled.

The possibilities are endless. High-density storage can accommodate books, paintings, files, cabinets, furniture, racks, and much more. Mobile carriages can support anything from bookshelves, heavy-duty shelving, cabinets, media storage, and museum racks to warehouse shelving.

Case Study

• A large corporate, academic or institutional library in a major metropolitan area
• Approximately 5,000 linear feet of books to store
• An average rent of $100 per square foot per year*

A high-density storage system can help this library save at least 1,125 square feet of floor space, or even better—$69,750 each year—compared to open stationary shelving.

Calculate Your Potential Savings

Montel’s Space Optimizer calculates the square feet needed by a mobile system and a stationary system thus estimating the potential savings. A cost of rent of 100$ per square foot is assumed.

High-density storage is the cost-effective solution for modern workspace environments.

*CB Richard Ellis: Global Market Rents November 2006

Established in 1924, Montel pioneered high density mobile storage systems in North America providing cost-efficient storage solutions using less space. As we now manufacture all our mobile and stationary shelving units, filing systems, industrial mobile carriages, art racks, moveable pull-out storage panels, accessories and cabinets for multimedia storage, museum storage and much more, we have a perfect control on our products and we will help you finding the right solution for your specific storage needs. www.montel.com