APPAREL

Women’s Athletic Apparel: fulfillment / storage / operations / retail. The mixture of uses led to different occupant loads and code requirements. With clothing storage the occpancy group was an S-1 as the apparel is considered combustible. Fire protection ratings increased, requiring additional separation, and different means of egress. Civil’s stormwater management was graded toward the northwesr corner, making the loading dock slab about 3 risers below interior slab. The solution was re-grading so the loading and interior slabs were the same. Industrial grade, fixed, pneumatic, rotating lifts were shopped. These allowed the product to be hoisted up to the truck bed, and operations were able to keep relatively the same timing. Designer, while with Phoenix Associ. of SW Fl.

CONCEPTUAL