DUBAI-based Face Middle East has completed the region’s first fully-compliant DM1 (defined movement 1) floor at the new facility of Redington Gulf, a leading IT distributor in the Middle East, at Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai.

Face Middle East is a part of the CoGri Group of companies, a consortium of international industrial floor solution specialists with more than 20 years global experience in the design, construction and upgrading of industrial concrete floors.

The floor was tested and certified by Face Consultants, a United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)-accredited organisation for flatness comp-liance testing.

Face Middle East said its team was invited by the main contractor to review the approved design for the floor slab.
Following this review, its engineering team supervised the commencement of the floor slab construction.

In total, 21 very narrow aisle (VNA) slabs were surveyed by Face Consultants and certified as fully compliant with DM1, it added.

Chidambaram, general manager SCM (supply chain management), Redington Gulf, said: “The major objective to insist on DM1 flooring was to increase efficiency, better throughput, speed and safety for all our material handling equipment. We wanted to achieve the best possible result for our flooring surface.”

“Floor surface regularity is the most important aspect for a VNA racking facility especially when the racking has a top beam height of 15 m,” he added.