People are spending more and more money doing online shopping and real estate developers Together with this phenomenon, they are beginning to invest record figures in the construction of spaces for increasingly larger, taller warehouses that meet the infrastructure expectations of an e-commerce, as well as the robots that usually help them.
Construction companies in the United States have spent 2700 billion dollars on warehouse construction, only in the month of October, the highest figure ever recorded. The average space of the warehouses that were built this year is 50 thousand square meters, which is twice the space of what was built in 2001. Even the ceilings are 21% higher than they were in the previous period.
The sellers With 30 items in their stores, they may find themselves selling 10 times that number of items in their online sales. The greater the provision of items to customers, the greater the warehouse space per square meter must be, as well as the higher its ceilings to allow them to accommodate more levels and allow operators to handle a greater number of racks within the building.
For all this it was also necessary that the industrial buildings will build much thicker concrete floors to allow heavy machinery to handle their processes safely and properly.
These are changes that have never been witnessed before, that the e-commerce is forcing the construction of warehouses larger is a sign that current trading processes are evolving, mainly in the electronic marketplace. This growth is likely to continue unabated, until a cut-off point is found in warehouse size. At this point, the use of robotic technology may be completely necessary to achieve greater efficiency in the management of warehouses of this magnitude.