How To Design and Build a Cold Room

How To Design and Build a Cold Room
6 min read
23 November 2022

There are researches that suggest the rate of chemical and biological reactions that cause deterioration slows down when the temperature drops. When temperatures were low, microbial multiplication slows down. Construction of cold rooms from Cold Storage Companies to preserve the insulation of refrigeration and humidity in cold rooms.

Toxins, which are responsible for poisoning, cannot form below a temperature of -10 degrees Celsius. While microorganisms cease to exist below a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius. In this piece, we explain the process by providing an illustration that is simple to grasp.

In order to preserve fresh and unprocessed products, cold rooms are the ideal solution. Here you will find the necessary information to get your project started. Detect failures in cold room construction.

Material For the Construction of Cold Rooms

Cold Storage Companies

Today it is essential in Mexico and the world, the use of refrigeration systems that reduce their environmental impact , these must have total hermeticity to avoid the leakage and / or entry of air currents from the outside.

Whether the dimensions or the refrigerant characteristics depend on each project and the maintenance required, for which we invite you to contact us, at Our Company we have a wide variety of products that serve to Insulate, Protect and Save , and we also advise our clients at no additional cost in order to achieve the best result.

It is a modular panel made up of a self-extinguishing Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) core ; covered on both sides with pre-painted galvanized steel sheet, designed to install as; Roof, interior and exterior walls, soffits, and facades.

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Panel designed to place vertically or horizontally on facades and interior walls or, suspended, fulfilling the functions of a ceiling light.

It has a sheet of 26-gauge galvanized steel type G60 or equivalent. Has two types of joints, Hidden Fix type and Z-Lock type. These configurations provide greater resistance and greater hermeticity in the construction system.

Roof

Roof is a construction system manufactured with the highest technology and quality standards worldwide.

Its novel joint between panels is more waterproof than the joint by flashing, and due to its structural resistance, it is the ideal system for construction on all types of roofs .

It has a sheet of galvanized steel type G60 or equivalent on both sides . For the appearance of the inner face sheet, the Mini Ribs or Mesa profile can request.

Wall And Ceiling

The family includes, which is a panel with the components of, but with the replacement of one of the sheets (interior or bottom) by a polypropylene-based coating; reinforced with a fiberglass-based mesh; that is, foil type coating.

Main Elements for The Construction of Cold Rooms

Generally, the walls of the cold rooms face the outside, this is not optimal in energy terms, the hermeticity is at risk and it can put the rest of the construction at risk. At Our Company, we recommend using soffits and preventing the insulating wall from being in direct contact with the outside.

We have a couple of construction that we share in our article How to build a cold room? Basic elements and insurance will interest you, as well as more details about the construction process that you will see below.

Construction process stages of a cold room in perfect insulation

  1. Insulation of Floors for Cold Rooms

The gravel bed is a very important element, it breaks the tension created by humidity , that is, by the capillarity effect of the soil. The spaces between the gravel pieces are large for the water found in the natural terrain, so it is difficult for it to get up.

When the spaces are small if you can climb up to the concrete and freeze it, causing it to rise; This effect has even seen in 20 cm 300 reinforced concrete at 20 cm with 1 and a half inch rebar.

  1. Installation of Ceiling Lights for Cold Rooms

It is important to eliminate fragments of sheets in the joints of the wall panels and ceilings to avoid generating a thermal bridge, that is, that the hot air from the outside heats the sheet towards the interior and produces humidity.

The secondary structure of the roof of the industrial building must support the panels, to generate a ceiling as mentioned above.

  1. Installation of Walls for Cold Rooms

With the floor ready, place the wall panel on the foil and must fill the gaps or gaps that remain with polyurethane to prevent the passage of moisture. The connections between wall and wall have a vapor barrier. We make it with polyurethane, sealants, or butyl as a cord and while it is fresh it raises to assemble it with the panel that is next to it.

  1. Accessories and Sealing for Cold Rooms

We make it with polyurethane, sealants to ensure proper construction of cold storage rooms to prevent leakage of humidity and refrigeration.

Covering Of Columns

Used 3” material for ease of handling and flexing.

Sanitary Curves

In this case, sanitary curves installed at wall/ceiling, wall/ wall, and wall/column junctions.

Outside Corners

At the wall/wall, wall/ceiling junctions of 10" in cold rooms and 3" in

Plug And Drag Channel

Flashing Moldings

Between the joints of the panels to hide the stainless-steel plates.

Interior Seal of Walls and Ceilings

A polyurethane based sealant.

External Seal in Ceiling Panels

3M sealing tape.

Polyurethane

It must protect the holes made in the panel by passing installations with polyurethane or sealant. At our company, we are experts in construction systems for refrigeration rooms based on Expanded Polystyrene and excellent product quality. We accompany you in your project with a consultative sale that ensures the best use and implementation of our insulating panel. With insulate, protect, save, and construct Precast Boundary Wall for prevention of thermal leaks in cold storage rooms.

 

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