Streamline Solution Delivery with Flat-Packed Shipping

Have you ever tried to bring a dining room set home from the store in a sedan? Fully assembled, there's no way to achieve that without violating some traffic ordinances. But with the convenience of flat-packed furniture, you can bring the whole set home safely and assemble it in place. Those same benefits are amplified when applied to prefabrication and flat-packed shipping for secondary support structures.

Prefabrication and Flat-Packed Shipping

Prefabrication can be leveraged for nearly any secondary support solution, from pipe supports to volumetric multi-trade racks. The process starts with the Unistrut Midwest team designing your customized solution and beginning the construction process in our warehouse. By building secondary support systems off-site and then delivering a completed – or nearly completed – solution, your building or other on-site construction can occur in parallel. Installing pre-assembled portions of a module saves shop and field labor time and increases safety conditions.

A prefabrication build can be fully built as a completed rack with electrical, HVAC, and plumbing components installed, but to optimize logistics and delivery, we recommend creating sub-assemblies of the racks and shipping them to the site as a flat-packed solution.

Applications and Benefits of Flat-Packed Shipping

For those new to prefabricated solutions, logistics can rightfully be a concern. How will your solution be efficiently shipped to the site and installed without damage? This is where flat-packed delivery shines.

With Unistrut Midwest's prefabrication process, the delivery and installation logistics are considered from the very beginning, not just when it's time to ship the completed structure. Our team designs solutions that balance ease of installation with efficient transportation and delivery. This means considering any logistical challenges on site like tight corridors or doorways as well as how to best assemble kitted pieces to make deliveries as dense as possible. Shipping air is a waste of space and money, so solutions are designed to lay flat and stack, allowing more pieces onto a single truck than if the solution was delivered completely assembled.

Our team recently prefabricated riser racks for a healthcare construction project, and the clients opted to receive their racks as partially assembled kits in order to streamline shipping. This allowed their solution to ship using fewer trucks, saving the client anywhere from 5x to 30x on delivery costs depending on the width and length of the assemblies and full modules. And while this client opted to complete the assembly on-site themselves, our team is always available for installation or training your team on the assembly using provided detailed instructions.

In addition to shipping more efficiently, flat-packed solutions are much easier to store on-site than a fully assembled solution. This allows you to order your build as soon as you have the specifications and then keep it on-site until needed. That way, when your primary construction is completed you can begin installing your secondary support solution, keeping your project on track.

The time and cost-saving benefits of prefabrication go beyond the initial build. With proper planning, an experienced team, and streamlined shipping via flat-packed assemblies, you can maximize your timeline and budget.