High-Bay Shelving
Spacesaver’s High-Bay Shelving efficiently utilizes vertical space, leaving your floor area uncluttered and dramatically increasing storage capacity to create space for community rooms, coffee shops, lounges, and more. Offering a range of shelving options, our High-Bay Shelving can be customized to suit the precise requirements of your facility and materials. High-Bay Shelving provides new ways for organizations with limited footprints to get more use out of less space to store evidence, archives, collections, and more.
Benefits of High-Bay Shelving
- Increase storage capacity by using a facility's vertical space.
- Frees up floor space for other applications within the facility it is stored and beyond.
- Protects and preserves current collections while creating space to accommodate future growth.
High-Bay Shelving Features
Strength and Durability
- One-piece, welded upright frames designed to support 18,000 lbs.
- Box-formed, cold rolled steel shelf construction
- Patented side-shelf support system
Flexibility and Configurability
- Shelves are easily adjusted on vertical increments of 1-1⁄64” (25.8mm) for all shelving positions
- No tools are required to relocate shelves
- Systems can range in height from 6' to 34'
Greater Storage Density
- Shelves sized specifically for efficiently storing book trays and standard archival boxes
- Custom sizes are also available to accommodate media of different sizes to maximize density
Why Off-Site Storage?
Prestigious Institutions, Public Safety Departments, Museums, and many more industries have chosen high-bay for their off-site locations for many reasons. In urban settings, limited space prevents expansion, while adjacent lots might be costly. Institutions situated in historic or architectural buildings choose off-site options to avoid compromising their aesthetic charm. Learn how off-site storage facilities can provide a comprehensive, long-term solution to your institution’s storage concerns.
Real Life Situations – Education
The Western Michigan University Archive Storage is a prime example.
"Having all of the collections under one roof seemed to make a great deal of sense. It also made a great deal of economic sense for the university, because they were maintaining some very outdated buildings.”
-Sharon Carlson, Archives and Regional History Collections Western Michigan University
A new Collections Center was built like nothing the campus has seen before; no wood-paneled shelves, no green-shaded lamps, and no rolling ladders. Documents now can be stacked as high as three stories in high-bay systems, with shelves stretching from floor to ceiling. This new high-bay storage solution allows Western Michigan University to work with researchers and provide quick, easy access to materials in a well-organized shelving structure.
Real Life Cases – Public Safety
Evidence accumulates year after year which leads to unnecessary storage problems. Volusia County Sheriff’s Office Evidence Facility typically takes on 20,000 evidentiary items EVERY year.
Knowing Spacesaver is the industry leader in high-bay shelving, the project planning team called on their local Spacesaver consultant for assistance. They worked together for the next four years to design a high-bay shelving system, along with a variety of other solutions, to help keep evidence organized and secure.
The result is an end-to-end evidence storage and retrieval system that helps ensure that evidence is secure, and justice is served. The fully optimized storage facility also has plenty of room to grow in the future, and the Sheriff’s Office has maintained its CALEA accreditation.
Real Life Cases – Library
When the time came to consider expanding its off-site facility, The University of Calgary arrived at a new approach. The design team wanted to push beyond the concept of a typical off-site “warehouse” model to consolidate vital services and better integrate with on-campus services.
To achieve these goals, the University of Calgary added to its original high-bay facility. One addition featured Spacesaver XTend® Mobile High-Bay Storage Systems to keep materials organized and protected, and the other featured office space and work areas.
In the end, the expanded facility shows how a modern university can care for and share its collections in a way that best serves the academic community now and into the future.
High-Bay Shelving FAQs
- What materials can be stored in a high-bay system?
- Spacesaver High-Bay Shelving can be configured to efficiently store totes, Bankers Boxes, artwork, microfilm, books, and more.
- What are the benefits of off-site storage with High-Bay Shelving?
- High-Bay Shelving allows users to securely store more materials within their off-site facility and free up space for additional use cases, saving time, reducing construction costs, and maximizing budgets.
- Is High-Bay Shelving customizable?
- High-Bay Shelving can be customized to precisely accommodate a wide array of materials and is designed to be adjusted as needs change.
- How does High-Bay Shelving improve organization and retrieval?
- allowing more like materials to be stored in the same space, High-Bay Shelving allows for increased organizational capacity and quicker retrieval of both slow and quick-moving items.
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With high-bay solutions able to extend up to thirty-five feet high to meet the peak of the vertical space in your facility, you too will be able to reach new heights. See how our off-site storage solutions work by requesting a quote!
