BUILDING AN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING IN MOROCCO: 7 RULES FOR SUCCESS
Designing the architecture of an industrial building in Morocco is quite a job. Whether it is a production line, storage areas, logistics, offices, workshops, finished products or spaces dedicated to orders, the industrial building must meet exactly the functions for which it is designed.
Facilitating the organization of work in an industrial environment, a task in which Arpio Architects has been a part of for several years, aims to meet complex and specialized requests, following a quality approach for each industrial building project in Morocco.
Experience and know-how are at the service of industrial architecture, designed and optimized for a rewarding human and technical impact, here are the 7 rules of success for building an industrial building in Morocco according to Arpio Architects.
1. CHOOSE YOUR INDUSTRIAL PATRIMONY
With the invaluable help of a specialist, preferably an architect expert in industrial building in Morocco, your land assets will meet your needs, situation, land area, orientation, future development and architectural regulations.
2. PROGRAM YOUR NEEDS
Start by clearly defining your needs for production areas, offices, storage of raw materials and finished products. Also consider the possible expansion, reconstruction, renovation and modification of a building. The architect strives to precisely define the needs of his client before designing, within the available budget, a building that will best solve the "solidity, function and aesthetics" equation.
Always in consultation with industrial building specialists in Morocco, Arpio Architects has often been the basis of this program before moving on to the architectural design stage.
3. CHOOSE THE ARCHITECT WELL
While it is mandatory to use an architect to design buildings, it is always relevant to use an architect upstream of the project. He is the best qualified professional to support his clients in the implementation of a quality architectural project, whether it is a construction, transformation or renovation. Like a real conductor, he remains the basis of any successful project in general and particularly in the context of the construction of an industrial building.
This versatile professional is skilled at many other tasks. Upstream of the construction project, it is used to develop a program and conduct studies. After the design work, he can intervene to prepare the tender documents and determine the terms of the construction contract. Finally, on the site, he can supervise the work, an essential step in obtaining a product that complies with the plans and specifications. At all times, the architect is also the professional indicated to obtain advice or an opinion.
In addition to construction projects, the architect's intervention encompasses the expansion, reconstruction, renovation and modification of buildings. Its expertise can benefit all aspects of the built environment, the quality of which is thus improved and the final financial cost optimized and controlled.
WHAT ARCHITECTS BRING TO INDUSTRIALS
Few manufacturers turn to architects to build their factories. However, these offer the company, in addition to functional and organizational responses, a suitable working environment, a reinforced identity and a clean brand image. The case of VITRA whose slogan was: “everything for the image” which has bet on the aesthetics of its industrial architecture since 1981 is edifying, by calling on the great architects to build its brand image: Nicholas Grimshaw, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha M. Hadid, Tadao Ando and Alvaro Siza.
The architect will therefore intervene on the industrial process, working conditions and of course, the company's brand image. First, it analyzes all production systems. While it cannot modify the very heart of the process, it can however intervene at the periphery and predict changes.
All citizens live and work in buildings: architecture is an integral part of our personal and professional life. It goes without saying that the quality of the built environment contributes to improving our daily life and automatically to better productivity. The architectural studies will take into consideration the impact of quality, industrial profitability and the brand image of the company.
Arpio Architects is committed to a quality approach for any building project in Morocco, and its teams work for the design and implementation of industrial projects and industrial campuses, combining performance, aesthetic, energy and functional quality.
4. SPECIFY INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
What is the main challenge for the architecture of industrial sites? Design spaces adapted to their function and the type of activity that will be carried out there.
As a result, each industrial building in Morocco must be designed according to its use and includes buildings designed according to their use where each space is built according to manufacturing methods and evolving and communicating spaces which must make it possible to optimize the organization of tasks. They must therefore be functional, which obviously does not exclude the aesthetic dimension specific to each architectural achievement.
The architecture must indeed fit into the geometric shape of the land, and all volumes to be built must comply not only with safety regulations, but also with the quality of life sought for employees and managers. This quality architecture must meet a series of technical constraints: flexibility of the site, concrete framework and easy maintenance.
You work best in a pleasant space, and it is therefore to the quality of life at work as much as to the rationalization of tasks that Arpio Architects is committed to. In keeping with industrial aesthetics, Arpio Architects designs buildings with sober lines, designed for efficiency, and to last. The renovation and redevelopment of old sites are also offered.
Arpio Architects designs, among other things, storage spaces, open or closed, with or without docks. Among the achievements are also high-rise logistics warehouses. The agency's team of architects in Casablanca pays particular attention to studying the expectations and needs of its clients, for example when it comes to designing spaces rationally. Many companies today operate according to the principles of lean management, eliminating all sources of waste from the design of the building (inside and outside the process) and this approach is obviously facilitated by an intelligent design of the premises, workshops, offices, logistics spaces.
A major challenge for the architecture of industrial sites is to design spaces adapted to their function and to the type of activity that will be carried out there for an optimal and functional organization of tasks. Each building is a tailor-made product that must be well integrated into the surrounding environment. Organizing space is becoming an essential factor and more and more manufacturers are feeling the need for quality architecture. But still few of them buy forms and aesthetics, at the same time as they demand more flexibility from the building, especially in the organization of space. Architects can provide solutions.
"Architecture not only accompanies industrial revolutions, but changes the working conditions of employees. "
Denis Valode
5. STUDY FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY
Productivity also depends on the aesthetic dimension which takes on its full extent in the context of industrial projects. We work better in a pleasant space, several studies have shown that a healthy and pleasant work environment and well-designed premises increase productivity and it is therefore for the quality of life at work as well as for the rationalization of tasks. that Arpio Architects employs. The industrial building must have all the functions essential to its proper functioning and its development, it must also respond, through its aesthetic side, to the wishes of the industrialist, to faithfully reflect the industrial quality of the company. A brand image that each industrial group wants to convey to its employees, but also to all visitors to the site, especially these future customers.
However, such a great and noble ambition to build an industrial project in Morocco also comes at a substantial cost. Arpio Architects, through its long experience in Morocco which has enabled it to support many industrialists in the realization of their buildings, allows it to optimize financial costs at all levels of the project, from its design to its completion.
6. EFFECTIVELY OVERSEE THE ACHIEVEMENT
The construction stage corresponds to the inauguration of the site. The bids obtained made it possible to proceed with the choice of the manufacturer. The architect can advise and support you during the contractor selection process as well as in negotiations with the contractor and its suppliers.
Throughout the project, the architect ensures that the work provided by the contractor and his various subcontractors (plumbers, electricians, cabinet makers, etc.) is in all respects in accordance with the construction plans and specifications. In this sense, the architect performs automatic quality control for you and optimizes your investment and its profitability calculated over time. This check can be carried out in the office or on the construction site.
In this sense, the architect coordinates the activities of all the professionals involved in the realization of the project. He evaluates the progress of the work according to the budget and the schedule, and he ensures the drafting of the minutes of the site meetings. A true conductor, his main objective is to optimize and protect your investment; he protects the manufacturer from any technical and administrative surprises.
The architect is also responsible for the management of construction contracts. He then ensures that agreements, payment requests and work completion certificates are in good order. Finally, it assesses the complaints presented by the contractor relating to the work.
7. MASTER FINANCING
Several studies have shown that a healthy and pleasant work environment and well-designed premises increase employee productivity and reduce absenteeism. According to the Association of Institutional Real Estate Managers (AGPI) in Quebec, a "green" building would increase productivity by 6 to 16% and decrease absenteeism by 15%.
The design efforts made in terms of sustainable development can lead to considerable savings in management and in the energy cost of production. Orientation remains a major asset in this sense, domes on the roof allow natural lighting of the premises, a system for collecting and managing rainwater to be integrated into the structure.
Specializing in industrial buildings, Arpio Architects uses all the parameters to achieve the objective of the BEP (positive energy building). Its Architects are also taking into account the possibility of a future extension of the factory by installing a composite floor.
The financial impact of an industrial building project is often the result of all the aesthetic and technical constraints, as well as the choice of structural concept (concrete, prestressed, steel, mixed, etc.). Certain solutions can be adapted to suit specific investments:
The modular factory: since 95% of products and manufacturing methods change before we've completed the work, the design must provide for a factory with total modularity.
The all-purpose umbrella: in certain development zones or industrial estates that are springing up all over the kingdom, local authorities or developers build industrial buildings before they even know who is going to occupy them.
The exportable structure: setting up a factory abroad for an industrialist from outside the country poses a number of problems, including construction difficulties, the cost of transporting equipment, unfamiliarity with administrative regulations, and the non-adaptation of the proposed kit factory's materials to the climate. In this case, the manufacturer is playing "double or nothing". The structure of the building itself can be an asset in reducing the risk of failure.
« Manufacturers have yet to realize the contribution of architecture. At Hermès, she has tremendously strengthened the culture of the company, which has become clearer to everyone. A plus that is not costly when it comes to the employee's environment. It is our duty to provide a pleasant living environment for staff. The condition for creating enthusiasm and skills. »
Jean-Louis Dumas, CEO Hermès.
