Cold store
Short definitionA large warehouse made up of several cold rooms, an anteroom and a dispatch area, worked with forklifts and racking.
It differs from a single room in scale and in how it operates: product arrives on pallets, goes into racking and is loaded onto vehicles through the dock doors. So the design covers more than refrigeration. Rack layout, aisle width and vehicle docking have to be solved too.
The rooms usually sit side by side with shared walls, with an anteroom in front of them. Rooms at different temperatures next to each other directly affect panel selection and heat load.