Board members of the upscale One Powers Street Condominiums in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY had a challenge.  Their building was designed with many amenities, including a fitness room, but at the end of construction the owners had only one small space of 400 square feet available for shared storage.  With 28 owners in the building, there clearly was not enough room to store - let alone separate - personal belongings in such a tight space.

One Power St Storage Area - Before

The One Powers St Board worked with local representatives of SpaceGuard Products to layout and optimize their storage space.  The goal was equitable storage space for each owner.  The result was an optimized space using SpaceGuard's stacked wire mesh lockers.  Unlike solid units, SpaceGuard wire mesh condo lockers allow for unrestricted circulation of light, air and fire suppression systems which proves to be a challenge in restricted space.

SpaceGuard double tier locker doors are a pre-fabricated panel with an upper and lower door welded to the frame.  The upper and lower tenant locker units are then separated by a full depth shelf, in this case constructed of sheet metal, to fully divide the contents of each unit.  Instead of 215 square feet of storage, the second tier doubled the secured storage space to 430 square feet of total area.

One Power St Storage Area - After

When asked how the owners felt about the final installation, Board President Juan E. responded, "They love it.  (It) offers so much more space than before." 

Contact SpaceGuard Products today to turn even the smallest amount of space into a secure storage area for your Cooperative or Apartment building.  The affordable yet quality apartment lockers also make a profitable investment for Property Managers who rent out the space to their tenants.

Shea Electric & Communications LLC of Oshkosh has been providing Intrusion Detection solutions, including access control and camera surveillance, to Wisconsin customers for over 25 years.  So it’s only natural for Shea Electric to add physical security to its arsenal of services. 

SpaceGuard Products is proud to announce that it has partnered with Shea Electric as an authorized reseller and installer of SpaceGuard’s versatile selection of secure storage and safe guarding products.   

As a provider of full commercial electrical contracting, Shea Electric serves a wide array of industries across North/Southeast and Central Wisconsin.  The industries served by Shea Electric pair nicely with the wide array of products manufactured by SpaceGuard:

Industrial/Warehousing:  Shea intrusion detection and SpaceGuard man trap or driver entrance cages

Education/Institutional: Shea audio/visual services and SpaceGuard equipment storage cages

Food Processsing/Services: Shea specialized lighting and wiring services and SpaceGuard safe guarding with a factory-applied Plascoat finish approved for non-fatty food environments

Health Care: Shea CCTV surveillance for Assisted Living Homes and SpaceGuard residential storage lockers

And the list goes on…Retail, Office, Financial Institutions, Government, and Energy customers all have some level of physical and electrical security needs that the Shea Electric-SpaceGuard partnership can address.

Shea Electric services both construction and commercial projects in Wisconsin’s Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, and surrounding areas.  Contact Shea Electric or SpaceGuard to learn more about how our partnership can benefit your next project.

Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) announces the formation of the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA). ProGMA will join the 18 other Industry Groups operating under the umbrella of MHIA. ProGMA members are the Industry’s leading suppliers of fixed protective guarding products designed to protect personnel, equipment, and inventory in industrial facilities.

Protective Guarding items range from fixed objects installed around articulating equipment, machinery, or material storage areas such as safety fence, netting, guard rail, and bollards to specialized switches designed to stop machine operation as well as safeguarding through visual or auditory aids. They are used in manufacturing, distribution and other industrial facilities to protect personnel, equipment, and inventory from workplace hazards.

ProGMA will work to enhance workplace safety by increasing awareness and developing standards for design and performance of protective guarding products. “ProGMA will provide end users with easy access to leading manufacturers of protective guarding products helping them find effective solutions for their operations,”  says Ray Niemeyer, Educational Services Director and ProGMA Managing Executive.

According to ProGMA Chairman, Eddie Murphy of SpaceGuard Products, Inc., "the positioning of the protective guarding industry as an Industry Group within MHIA presents substantial benefit to MHIA and ProGMA members." 

For more information and to see a list of inaugural members, click here.

(exerpt from article first featured in MHIA News)