Revamping a workshop?
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Call in professionals.
• Managers specifying major alterations of workshops or specifying new ones on greenfields sites can obtain professional advice from Garage Equipment Maintenance (GEMCO).
Architects, even those involved with industrial design, may lack experience to plan adequately for commercial vehicle access roads within a site. But this company, with nine branches throughout the UK, offers a free workshop design service for its customers. Its workshop design operation is at its Northampton hq. Here the film has staff and computer equipment dedicated to workshop planning. The company has tailored architect's computer software to speed workshop design processes.
Managing director Alan Crisp says a comprehensive brief is first taken from the customer. This will include the number and type(s) of vehicle and the repair levels to be undertaken. Design alternatives are produced for the customer.
With a green-fields site the firm works with the architects.