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Article: FLOORING: Tesco floors it in Malaysia.
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- Logistics Manager
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Supermarket giant Tesco enlisted newly formed CoGri Malaysia to construct a special floor slab at its largest purpose built distribution centre in south east Asia.
The 50,000 sq m warehouse, sited just north of Kuala Lumpur, is built on a 25-acre plot, which includes 24,000 sq m for expansion.
The main hub features 169 loading docks and 54,000 pallet spaces in 11m high selective racking.
Face Consultants designed and specified the floor flatness as FM2 Special from the UK Concrete Society's Technical Report No 34.
The consultancy specified 2.4m x 2.6m pile grid, 900 diameter pile heads, 200mm thick sub base, 210mm thick slab with ...