Over the past few years, a growing share of our work at Archdeck Associates has moved into logistics warehouses and industrial cold storage – buildings that look simple from the outside but carry a very different design brief from a typical commercial or residential project.

Take our logistics warehouse and cold storage facility for JWR Logistics in Farukhnagar, Haryana. The brief called for 2.00 lakh sq. ft. of covered space, with 90,000 sq. ft. of that converted into cold storage held at -24 degrees C and sized for 28,000 pallet positions. Getting the insulation, floor loading, dock layout and refrigeration coordination right, while still completing the project in 11.5 months, meant designing the building around the cold chain from day one, not retrofitting it later.

The same thinking shaped our work for Alliance Agri Tech in Sonipat, where we expanded an existing industrial and cold storage facility and took its storage capacity from 976 tonnes to 5,500 tonnes at 5 degrees C. And at Bhaproda in Rohtak, our 6.86 lakh sq. ft. warehouse for AKNB Infracon was planned as a single box with roughly 46 loading docks, provision for 25 more, and dedicated standby truck parking – the kind of detail that only shows up as a problem once a facility is already operating at capacity.

What we’ve learned across these projects is that warehouse and cold storage design is really about sequencing: dock positions have to match the truck movement plan, column spacing has to match the racking system, and insulation and vapour barriers have to be designed before the shell, not added afterward. It’s less glamorous than a lobby or a facade, but it’s where a logistics building either works on day one or spends its first year being patched.

If you’re planning a warehouse, cold storage facility, or industrial shed and want it designed around how it will actually be used, that’s the kind of project our team works on every day.