
If your manufacturing facility or warehouse doesn’t have the space to comfortably hold every piece of equipment on the ground floor or needs to keep the area free of obstructions, consider raising your equipment off the ground. Porta-King’s equipment platforms are a structurally reliable option that keep equipment safe, accessible, and out of the way of general operations.
Optimize Space for Added Efficiency
An equipment platform is a freestanding structure, often used for additional storage or to provide access points to equipment or systems. These differ from mezzanines since they are not considered a permanent part of the building, such as a balcony in a theater.
Equipment platforms optimize the space in your facility by letting you build up rather than out, so you won’t spend extra money constructing a whole new area to store equipment. These equipment platforms allow you to use the space under and around your workspace for additional storage.
Decrease Equipment Damage & Increase Worker Safety
By elevating equipment on a stable platform, you can protect equipment from day-to-day traffic or in case of a natural disaster like flooding or earthquakes. All of Porta-King’s equipment platforms are constructed to fit your needs and are IBC compliant. Equipment platforms are all constructed with:
- Guard railings to prevent accidental falls during day-to-day operations or maintenance, increasing worker safety.
- Gates to facilitate safe transfer of material to and from the equipment platform during maintenance or other manufacturing processes.
- Customized structural design to ensure that the structure will be able to safely bear the load of your equipment.
- Seismic-Resistant Design to improve the structures stability during seismic events to ensure heavy equipment stays in place.
Our professional team of engineers will work with you to design your ideal equipment platform. For a more detailed rundown, browse our construction options page for all mezzanines.
Case Studies
These are some of our mezzanine case studies that showcase the expert work we have done for our clients.
- A Vertical Solution for a Distribution Center in Need of Office Space - Sometimes the space you need isn't horizontal, it's vertical. That's no problem for Porta-King! We… ...
- A Porta-King Mezzanine Adds Functional Space and Helps Create Jobs for the Automotive Industry - Workers in the Detroit area got a big boost recently when a major automotive seat… ...
- Porta-King Provides Space Solutions for State 48 Rock House - At Porta-King, we design construction solutions for a range of industries. Recently, we helped State… ...
- Porta-King Designs New Work Environment for Scott AFB - Porta-King has designed new office space for Scott Air Force Base (SAFB) to merge an… ...
- Porta-King’s Rooftop Catwalk at St. Francis Hospital Improves Safety - St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield, Illinois was concerned that only a ladder was being used… ...
- Porta-King’s Thunderdome Mezzanine to Survive San Andreas Fault - In our last blog, we discussed how building modular mezzanines for seismic-heavy areas is an… ...
- Mezzanine Structures from Porta-King Turn Unused Ceiling Square Footage into Usable, Organized Space - Companies needing to expand and organize their usable work space are “looking up” rather than… ...
- Modular Office and Mezzanine Create Solution in Airport Hangar Remodel – A Case Study - The Company FBO Air is a company that sells and repairs aircraft for individual and… ...