iSpace: The Sustainable Powered Warehouse
June 2022
BridgePort is redesigning the way warehouses can impact the community around them by designing a new, innovative, and sustainable warehouse solution. This will positively impact the community by providing jobs and affordable housing to the local neighborhood. James Murrow, Director of Operations at BridgePort, is the primary mastermind behind the iSpace warehouse, a cold storage advanced technology warehouse. According to Murrow, “industry drives sustainability.” He and his team at BridgePort have done extensive research to design a new warehouse in Cleveland that will positively benefit the community by becoming an asset that provides jobs and sustainable, affordable housing.
During BridgePort’s research on the community, they asked Cleveland citizens what their biggest concerns were regarding the new warehouse. Like most communities, there is a concern for employment available to those of the surrounding community and attainable housing that positively impacts the neighborhood without raising rates. Next to the Warehouse BridgePort is also installing a 100 unit attainable & sustainable housing structure to address most people’s concern with the rise in utility bills. BridgePort found a way to cut costs by redirecting excess heat from the refrigeration of the warehouse to the housing units. By generating electricity from solar panels located on the warehouse and housing units and the redirection of heat the tenants will have minimal utility costs.
Additional sustainability efforts will be used through refrigerated, electric vehicles to deliver pharmaceutical products to and from customers at this state-of-the-art supply technology warehouse. Customers will be proud to support a company with strong sustainability values. BridgePort displays their values through reducing their carbon footprint and providing technological advances to the supply chain industry as well as to the community.
BridgePort plans to be an asset to the community through innovative technology by using solar panels and electric vehicles; but that's not where sustainability ends for the company. BridgePort plans to use drones and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the iSpace warehouse to be more energy efficient; such as, having robots that will be able to withstand cold temperatures. By limiting the refrigeration door being opened will allow the room to stay at the required temperature reducing the amount of energy used within the warehouse and ensuring temperatures are maintained for quality control. BridgePort continually is trying to find ways to reduce their carbon footprint in the community, in the world and overall improve the standard of supply chain, logistics and warehouse technology.
Written by Kye Harrell, June 2022