Wow, I am sure there are lots of irreplaceable documents. So if you were to
build one, I wonder how to prevent this same problem?
I guess structural engineering needs to presume all the racks are full of
water.
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From: Nate Burke
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 10:36 AM
To: Animal Farm
Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Document Storage
Here in the Chicago suburbs, a 250k sqft document storage warehouse just
burned down. It took them a week to put out the fire. 30' Racks
stacked with banker boxes, when the building sprinklers hit it, the
paper got waterlogged and got too heavy for the racks to support and
came down, taking roof supports and building sprinkler system down with
them. Once the roof was opened up, the fire got lots of air, and just
started raging. With the roof gone, nothing was holding up the precast
walls, etc.etc. Basically there's no more building left.
So what kind of paper documents are stored in warehouses like this? Bank
Documents? Law office contracts? The Panama Papers? I'm just curious
what the market is for industrial scale paper storage like this. I see
a lot of storage places like this around the suburbs. Iron Mountain has
a couple big facilities. I'm guessing you are responsible for your own
redundant copies at multiple storage warehouses? Also seems like if
there are just boxes of papers stacked on a shelf, there's really no
security.
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