CASE SDUTY：BBC Archive Centre Perivale，UK
The BBC’s purpose-builtmedia Archive in Perivale, London, opened in 2011. The BBC archive is a rich historical resource that can track the evolution of broadcasting in documents, radio programmes, television programmes, photos, sheet music and vinyl collections. It really is one of the largest broadcast archives in the world. It is held on multiple tape/film/sound formats and it needs to be housed in appropriate climate controlled vaults in order to prevent the tape and film stock degrading over time. The new BBC archive centre has nine climate controlled vaults which can be individually adjusted for temperature and relative humidity. It is fitted witha series high-densityarchive storagesystems tohouse theCorporation’s precious stock of archive material. The archive contains a total of 3.7 millionitems.
The solution
Having undertaken the complete operation, including the installation of 3.9metre-high mezzanine floors, more than 5 km of rails for the high density mobile storage systems,together with 4500 sq.m of infill-flooring on the ground-floor, and a similar quantity of steelmesh decking on the mezzanine level, we were able to provide the BBC Archive Centre Perivale with more than 85,000 shelves. The buildingnow provides 100km of linear shelf capacity. Consisting of shelving units mounted on mobile carriages that run on floor rails, it reducesthe footprint of a storage system by having only one “floating” aisle instead of a series offixed aisles.
CASE SDUTY：BBC Scotland Archive,Pacific Quay，England
Bruynzeelsupplied mobile shelving forBBC ScotlandArchive to store itsdigital tapes of television programmes when the corporation moved itsdigital broadcasting centreto new premises at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. Designed byDavid Chipperfield architects, the BBC’s HQ was one of the new buildings around which Glasgow’s‘Digital Quarter’ has developed, on the banks of the River Clyde.
The BBC’s Information and Archives Vault is situated on the second floor in the heart of the building. Although budget was a consideration the client also wanted a solution that was aesthetically pleasing. The safety of the vault users was also paramount.
The solution
Bruynzeel offered a Compactus®archive storagesolution for BBC Scotland. The provision of safety aisle locks and torque limiters (slipping clutch) throughout provides excellent user safety.
For aesthetic purposes the client requested that the system guide rails be installed into the existing computer floor as well as glass end panels from the selection of finishes offered.The complete system provides BBC Scotland Archive with over 8,000 linear metres of storage in eight blocks.
CASE SDUTY：Borthwick Institute for Archives, UK
Byinstalling an electronic mobile storage system in its archive repository,the Bothwick Institute for Archivesset a precedent, becomingthe first public records office in the UK to adoptthe latest generation of electronic mobile systems for storage.
The Borthwick Institutewas founded by York Minster in 1953. Its core collection remains the Archibishop of York’s archive, which dates back to the 13th Century. Since then the collection has expanded to fill some 30,000 fully indexed archive boxes holding, amongst other things, archive documents from chocolate manufacturers Terry’s and Rowntree’s, Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s personal archive – plus nearly every will in the north of England from 1300 to the 19th Century.
For 50 yearsthe collection was housed in a the medieval wing of St Anthony’s Hall complex. Even in the early 1950s, the accomodation was not ideal for an archive. Thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant, the Institute was able to build a new, dedicated building in 2004 and approached Bruynzeel to supply archive storagesolutionsfor its 10 climate-controlled strongrooms. The archive’s new 21st Century home opened to the public in 2005
The Solution
Chris Webb, Head of Archives at the Borthwick considered variousstorage options for the archive’snew repository. However, standards atthe time for historical archives and public records were based around the useof manually operated systems. “With the nature of the material we hold, wehave to take account of The National Archives’ regulations,” Chris explains.
After providing information about Bruynzeel’s system and examples ofnational archives using electronic mobiles in other countries, the Borthwickgave the go-ahead to install electronic mobile shelving as its preferredsystem.Bruynzeel installed 57 mobile carriages in the repository. The system has integrallighting, air circulation parking and the capacity to link operation with thearchive’sdatabase. The Bothwick’s architects, Leach Rhodes Walker, had originally specified conventionallighting for the repository that required over 300 fluorescent tubes. Howeverthe client eventually opted for the mobile shelving integral lighting, cutting thenumber of tubes to under 200. This also provides much better illuminationand saves on power costs.
After more than a decade inoperation, Chris Webb says the Borthwick was rightto install an electronic system , with benefits in terms of ease of access, savings on power cost, and simplicity of use.
“We’ve got a dual responsibility to ensure the preservation of material and makerecords accessible,” said Chris Webb. “We felt this system would be a big help on both counts.The benefits for preservation and access we were hoping to see are working out in practice.”
Results
- First electronic storage system of its kind installed by a public archive
- Integral lighting
- ElegantJacob Jensen designed Shadefront panels
- Space for over 30,000 indexed archive boxes
- Cantilever shelving for large items and rolled map storage
CASE SDUTY：Groninger Audio Visual Archive, Netherlands
Groninger AudioVisual Archives(GAVA) preserves audiovisual material as a historical source for reference or for use in creative productions. The extensive collection contains many different media formats such as VCR, U-matic, Betamax, VHS, Video 2000, and audio cassette tapes.
The solution
To increase storage capacity, the existing static racks were transformed into mobile shelving by mounting them onCompactus® Dynamic Pro XTRcarriages. This maximised the storage capacity for GAVA. To provide the best protection for the historic media collection, the system includes ventilation control and an energy saving Stand-by mode. Thanks to the ‘Soft start – Soft stop’ system, all media remains safely in place.
CASE SDUTY：IMPULS-Leasing, Romania
IMPULS-Leasing Romaniais one of five national subsidiaries of the Swiss group IMPULS-Leasing International AG, a multinational vehicle hire firm. Due to continued expansion, the company wanted to increase its maximum archive storage capacity.
The solution
Bruynzeel’s sestion was for IMPULS-Leasing to get rid of its outdated static archive system and replace it with amobile storage system. The firm chose a manual, hand-cranked system, specified with pull-out rails for hanging files. In the process, the company halved the amount of space required to store its archive, significantly increasing capacity without requiring additional floor area.
CASE SDUTY：Johnson Controls VB, Germany
Johnson Controlsis a global diversified company in the building and automotive industries. It serves these markets through three business units: building efficiency, Automotive Experience and Power Solutions. Johnson Controls create quality products, services and solutions to optimise energy and operational efficiencies of buildings; lead-acid automotive batteries and advanced batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles; and interior systems for vehicles.In the course of the renovation of the main administrative department, the firm Johnson Controls VB in Hannover (formerly Varta Automotive) established a new archive to meet the increased need for storage space.
The solution
To make daily work easier, Johnson chose Bruynzeel’s mobile shelving system.The system has the possibility of securely storing confidential information by assigning different aisles to specific users or departments. The lighting system in shelving units, featuring low power mode, was integrated into the low-energy lighting system for the whole building, resulting in significant energy savings.
CASE SDUTY：Labour Movement Library and Archive, Denmark
Since1909, theLabour Movement Library and Archive(ABA) has collected material produced by the political, trades union, cultural, and cooperative organisations of the Danish Labour Movement.The archive contains material from national and l organisations as well as personal archives. Today the collection includes 2,500 organisational archives and 275 personal archives.The library is a scholarly research centre for Danish and international literature on the Labour Movement and on working-class history and culture. The library and archive combined required a modern archive storage system, with additional capacity to grow.
The solution
Bruynzeel installed a compact storage solution utilising its market-leadingdouble decker mobile shelvingsystem, featuring integral mezzanine floor. The system includes mobile shelving on two levels, with six banks of static archiveshelving.The installation also includes 32 mobile shelving units with steel racking which provide a total capacity of 13,266 linear metres of shelving.
CASE SDUTY：National Archive, Liechtenstein
The National Archive of Liechtensteinrequired a mobile archive storage solution for its new building, housing the country’s central archive. The national archive is made up of private archives as well as documentation and collections of national interest. The archive has been a government department since 1961.
The solution
Across five floors, Compactus®mobile archive systems were installed with a capacity of 15,000 linear metres. A different colour was used on each floor and drawer cabinets were integrated into the mobile cabinets, to increase ease of access for staff and improve the working environment.
CASE SDUTY：Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UK
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland(PRONI) stores a vast collection of historical, social and cultural records. With the public search room ted on the first floor, the most popular records were stored at this level, and PRONI required fast and easy access to these files.
The solution
Safe, low-voltage electronic mobile archive shelvingwas specified throughout the first floor to ensure speedy access to every document. Electronic mobile shelving was also installed on part of the second floor repository for sensitive and restricted-access documents. The advanced security of the electronic shelving system allows access only to those with correctly coded transponder keys. And to provide storage for the framed artwork and pictures stored at PRONI, The ArteStorepicture rackingsystem is mounted onto mobile storage system and integrated into the main repository.
CASE SDUTY：Regional Archives, Funen, Denmark
The Regional Archives of Funen,situated in the city of Odense,are part of the Danish State Archives, which consist of a total of seven archival institutions scattered across the country. The Regional Archives collect and store valuable historical archive records and make them available to the public. The Archives accept archival material from state authorities, l authorities and individuals within the island of Funenand the surrounding archipelago. Records of special interest transferred from private individuals include an abundant number from the various landed estates in Funen. The Archives hold approximately 20km of records.
The Solution
The Bruynzeel 2-Tier Double Decker mobile shelvingcomprises two levels of electronic mobile shelving in Jacob Jensen designwith a thin steel grid floor between the two levels. A staircase to the steel grid floor provides access to the first floor level shelving. Existing static shelving was emptied in stages, dismantled and reused in the new double deckersystem, together with additional new shelving bays. The resulting storage solution has maximised storage capacity in the available space. The Bruynzeel Double Decker system has increased storage capacity in the archive by 400% over the equivalent floor space occupied by static bays
CASE SDUTY：Securitas Netherlands
Securitasisprimarily known for its security work. The firm also provides archive processing, storage and management for third parties. Many hospitals, oil companies, banks, aviation and aerospace firms rely on Securitas to provide safe and sustainable storage of documents, tapes, CDs,DVDs, microfilms and historical archives.Following an increase in requests for support, Securitas needed to expand its on-site storage capacity.
The solution
An increase of over 8km linear shelving brought the total at Securitas Netherlands, to nearly 60km. By using high mobile storage systemsfor the new installation,Bruynzeel achieved significantly more storage in the available space.
CASE SDUTY：The Keep Brighton, UK
The KeepBrightonis a world-class centre for archives that opens up access to all the collections of the East Sus Record Office, the Royal Pavilion and Museums Local History Collections and the internationally significant University of Sus Special Collections, including the uniqueMass ObservationArchive. It is also a centre of excellence for conservation and preservation and represents a new generation of modern archive buildings in the UK.
The Keep gives access to historical material for scholars and specialist researchers, universities, colleges and schools, members of the publicand business users. The Keep staff also work with under-represented groups and people with disabilities, including people with impaired hearing and vision.
The solution
The Keep required a modern, flexible storage system to meet all its requirements. Bruynzeel provided a range of mobile archive shelvingover the three floors with shelving runs greater than 12m in length featuring more than 30 different bay configurations, offering maximum flexibility with areas of expansion as the collection grows. The ground floor archive, for example, was chosen as the storage tion for oversize materials such as tithe mapsand plans. To optimize the available space for oversize media, 220 specialist plan chests were supplied, which not only housed the plans but accommodated the rolled maps in the shelving above. Each bank of the mobile systems on each floor are colour coded and allowed the user to move 35 tonnes of stored items with the minimum of effort, using Bruynzeel’s smooth-running hand cranked system. The total amount of shelving supplied to The Keep measures more than 14,000 linear metres.
CASE SDUTY：Underground archive, Sweden
Wartime caverns converted into a modern archive repository in Karlstad
Imagine if your workday began by entering a mountain. For archivists at the Värmlandsakiv(Varmland regional archive) in Karlstad, this is their reality. A few times every week, the staff go underground at Zakrisdal to carry out their work.
Buried deep in the bedrock 30 metres below the surface, in a former munitions factory dating from the 1940s, you will discover the equivalent of an archivist’s gold mine. With space at a premium above ground, it was difficult to find enough floor space for large archives in existing buildings, while the cost of constructing new repositories wasprohibitively expensive. Zakrisdal offered a unique and cost-effective opportunity to solve Varmland Archive’s capacity issues, by creating an underground archive in converted cavernsat the disused factory. Specially adapted ‘capsules’ fitted with Bruynzeel’s Double Decker mobile shelving have been built in the caverns as storage rooms for archiving, artefacts and files.
30metres below the surface
once inside the light-filled storage areas, it’s hard to image you’re 30m below the surface. The material stored in caverns at Zakrisdal is varied – everything from old church books and court records to company archives and confidential government documents. More often than not it is older materials, documents that are infrequently requested, that are stored in the cavern archives. Items that are requested more than two times a week are removed from the cavern and returned to Varmland Archives in central Karlstad.
The cavern is also home to glass plate negatives and microfilm stored in carefully monitored temperature-controlled spaces set at optimum humidity. Varmland Archives’ main stores in Karlstad has subsequently invested in research labs that are a popular destination for university researchers and genealogists, utilising the space freed up by moving their archive to the deep store at Zakrisdal.
Walkway linksDouble Decker shelving in separate caverns
To optimize storage space in the cavern, Bruynzeel installedDouble Decker mobile shelvingwith an interconnected walkway linking the caverns, which makes navigating the space easier for staff. The mezzanine floor in the Double Decker allows the storage of a much larger amount of material at an accessible height, providing over 28,000 linear metres of archival storage in total. The need for more storage is constantly increasing, and plans are already in place to expand.
Bruynzeel Storage Systems is the proud partner and supplier for Varmland Archive. It has been a great challenge to work together with Varmland archivists to find the most optimal solution.
When it comes to storage, thinking outside the box creates exciting results, such as the underground solution for Varmland Archive. With a greater openness to the public, a growing need for storage and ongoing expansion plans, the future of the formerly dark caverns now looks very bright.
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