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Project Profile:
TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION FLOOR PROJECT
Project: Toyota Motor Corporation (Parts Distribution Warehouse)
Where: Ontario, California
When: Summer 1996
Size: 600,000 square feet
Engineer: MNB Architects
Concrete Contractor: Snyder Langston
Concrete Supplier: Baker Concrete
Product Used: Komponent® (Shrinkage-Compensating Cement)
While Toyota Motor Corporation's 760,000 square feet parts warehouse cost about 2.5 times more than a basic warehouse, the amenities are expected to save money in the long run by lowering costs for maintenance, operations, and insurance.
Toyota trimmed life-cycle costs in part by minimizing the number of control joints in the floors. The company spends about $100,000 annually on repairing floor joints damaged by forklifts at its 11 other parts centers in the U.S. The floors contain shrinkage-compensating concrete in the areas where forklifts operate. They contain only about 1/10 as many control joints as in a typical warehouse. The super-flat floor is 6” and 8” thick, with a surface deviation of less than 1/10” per 10 feet.
Kelly Kerns, Toyota's facilities project manager in Orange, CA said, “We felt that we optimized the value of the dollars we spent on our warehouse.”
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