NESTO Warehouse Selective Pallet Racking Project
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Challenges during the project & their remedies

1. One of the biggest challenges of this racking project was we were asked to do racking while the client’s other civil & electrical work was going on in the same warehouse. Also, the warehouse was constructed but the civil work for docking & door was pending. So material entry was most challenging. We used a boom loader to enter the materials inside the warehouse & most of the items were moved manually into the main warehouse saloon.
2. Synchronizing with another contractor whose work was simultaneously going on, was a herculean task. Before starting the work for every single day, we had meetings with other contractors at the site & used to decide which part of the warehouse we would like to work. Due to this proper communication all contractors were doing their job simultaneously without any hassle.
3. Although the client’s warehouse was built in a professional manner, the floor was not flat thought‐out. The difference of floor was large at some points in the warehouse. We have had the shim plates to level the floors but due to the large difference in the floor leveling we had to bring almost double the shim plates than the initially available ones.
4. The roof lights were installed at a later time & hence at some point the lights were coming above pallet racks. We suggested that the roof light needs to be kept in between the aisle for better effect. We adjusted some racks accordingly & the racks were perfectly aligned.