Drive-through for efficiency

racks, along with a high ceiling, allow a lumber yard to store "up" instead of "out." This means that a smaller building can be built, and less real estate utilized to stor€ a given amount of material. Often, he maintains, racks can pay for themselves througb construction and real estate savings. Mezzanines, either free-standing or supported by the racks, can add more feet to support the rafters or trusses. Tbese buildings can be engineered for virtually any loads or seisnic r€quirements. As an added advantage, Damell notes, racks can generally be depreciated as equipment, even though they form prt of the structue. If a building products dealer is considering remodeling m building a new facility utilizing the drivethrough concept, he can turo to several places for planning assistance. The obvious choice would be an architect in his rea, bowerrcr they often have licle undentanding of a lumber yard's requiremens. The planning department in his buying group is a better place to start. Anotber source is an independent planner or cqnultant specializing in yard design. squarc footage of stmage space.

A dealer can also wort directly with a storage system srryplior specializing in serving the building products industry. Drive-through lumber yards are often designed around the racks. A building's form follows its function, so a racking supplier with howledge of the industry can offer useful design suggestions for tbe structure. He can evaluate Oe advantages of a rack supported building as well as fumish and install the actual rack systems.

Rack systems also minimize unnecessary labor and material handling, thus increasing labor efficiency and reducing man hours, Darnell adds. Since lift trucks can load most racks, hand storage of most bulky and heavy materials is eliminated. With materials more accessible and better organized less time is spent straightening and cleaning up, orders can be pulled faster and more customers can help themselves.

In many building designs, steel racks can be used to economically support the roof and/or walls. In this type of construction, racks which would have been in the building anyway are merely extended up a few

For most building material retailers, the drive-througb lumber yard concept is worth considering. Even though it rcquires a substantial investment, designed propedy, it can more than pay for itself through increased business and reduoed operating coss.

Story at a Glance

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Building Products Digest and its sister publication Zie Merchant Magazine are co-sponsors for the Material Handling, Storage & Delivery Show which will share space in the Dallas Convention Center with the Home Center Show's Building, Remodeling & Decor Products Expo Feb. 13-15. This show-withina-show will address the equipment selection needs of lumber and building product dealers attending the show. "Dealer members on the show advisory board argued very persuasively for the addition of this new material handling, storage and delivery equipment show," said John Berry, vice president and director of the Trade Show Division of show producer Vance Publishing. "For the past 18 years, the Home Center Show has been limited to the exhibition only of products and services suitable for resale to retail customers."

The addition of the equipment event is in keeping with the new focus and name for the show. More emphasis will be placed on retail dealers' increased interest in serving the needs of professional builder and remodeler customers in addition to do-it-yourself customers.

The Material Handling, Slorage & Delivery Show will include exhibits of forklifts, industrial saws and tools, wood waste recycling systems, strapping and banding equipment, delivery truck boom and crane systems, floor trucks, yard/warehouse racking and shelving and computer software relating to yard and store operation.

Information on attending the show is available from (8OO) &2-7469 or for exhibiting, (800) 545-5859.

Georgia-Pacific Buys Arrowood Plant

Georgia-Pacific Corp., Atlanta Ga., has purchased for an undisclosed amount Fibreboard Technologies Corp.'s engineered lumber manufacturing facility in Roxboro, N.C. Closed since July 1991, the plant should be fully operational by late spring or early summer 1994, following several million dollars in plant modifications and upgrades to equipment. The plant will resume production of Arrowood engineered composite structural lumber, though likely will drop the Arrowood name, according to Georgia-Pacific.

Currently, G-P's limited engineered wood product involvement is a residential beam and floor joist plant in Ocala, Fl. The Roxboro facility's annual manufacturing capacity of 25 million linear ft. is five times that of the Ocalaplant.

After the sale, parent Fibreboard Corp., Standard, Ca., dissolved Fibreboard Technologies, the subsidiary it created when it acquired the Arrowood plant in 1989.

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