CSIRO National Soil Archive

The National Soil Archive at Black Mountain holds samples that must stay at a stable moisture content for decades. CSIRO tendered for design, man­u­fac­ture, in­stal­la­tion and com­mis­sion­ing of a rolling storage system for Building 208.

The answer was a combined system: a mobile rolling basement for aisle com­pres­sion, and Boscotek high-density drawers for the bottles them­selves. The drawers were the part of the brief that needed a 120 kg and 200 kg UDL rating and a cycle life measured in the hundreds of thousands of op­er­a­tions. Man­u­fac­ture was Aus­tralian, by Wilson & Gilkes.