Most drawing offices tend to go down the route of plan holder systems as jobs can be grouped together into a single plan hanger. This is doubly useful for site offices where plans are readily needed on a building site.
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Showing posts with label drawing storage. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Keeping your office in shape
When it comes to plan filing choosing the right option can quite often be a minefield. Do you need horizontal paper storage or vertical paper storage? Do you need a lockable plan chest or a plan hanger stand? Metal or wooden? Bright and colourful or brown and beige straight from the 80's?
Despite the dreams of most architects to impose the perfect paperless office on us all, the reality is that most offices cannot escape it. Certainly large format plans and blueprints need to exist in a drawing office and so also need storing safely and neatly.
Most drawing offices tend to go down the route of plan holder systems as jobs can be grouped together into a single plan hanger. This is doubly useful for site offices where plans are readily needed on a building site.
Most drawing offices tend to go down the route of plan holder systems as jobs can be grouped together into a single plan hanger. This is doubly useful for site offices where plans are readily needed on a building site.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Paper weight
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So instead I had a look at what options were available to manage paper in an office. Depending on how you use your paper there are many options to look at.
Large metal cabinets which work like a large lever-arch file. For A0 or A1 paper you stick self adhesive plan strips onto the drawings.
You can get up to 1000 drawings into a single cabinet and are ideal for archiving and large capacity storage. You can have them with an anti-tilt mechanism so they stand alone and they're also great for storing drawing in plan wallets.
Planhorse make an excellent range of storage solutions for A0, A1, B1 and A2 CAD paper. Drawings are held in clamps with each clamp capable of holding up to 100 drawings. You can mix A0 and A1 drawings up on the same trolley because they all load from one end.
This type of system is ideal for site offices or project offices where its useful to group drawings into projects and have them quickly to hand.
For that hearty traditional feel there's always the Traditional wooden plan chest. A set of either 6, 9 or 12 drawers with a choice of wood finishes. Perfect for design / art studios they provide an in-keeping way to store A0 or A1 paper.
Constructed to withstand even the most care-free art students they'll stay together, looking good just as long as a metal plan chests.
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