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BBC Archive Centre Perivale, United Kingdom
The BBC’s purpose-built media Archive in Perivale, London, opened in 2011. The BBC archive is a rich historical resource that can track the evolution of broadcasting in documents, radio, television, photos, sheet music and vinyl collections. It really is one of the largest broadcast archives in the world. The archive contains a total of 3.7 million items.
Climate controlled archive
The BBC Archive held on multiple tape, film and sound formats and it needs to be housed in appropriate climate-controlled vaults to prevent the tape and film stock degrading over time. The new BBC archive centre has nine climate-controlled vaults which can be individually adjusted for temperature and relative humidity. It is fitted with a series high-density archive storage system to house the Corporation’s precious stock of archive material.
A mobile storage system
Having undertaken the complete operation, including the installation of 3.9-metre-high mezzanine floors, more than 5km of rails for the high-density mobile storage systems, together with 4500 sq.m of infill-flooring on the ground-floor, and a similar quantity of steel mesh decking on the mezzanine level, we were able to provide the BBC Archive Centre Perivale with more than 85.000 shelves. The building now provides 100km of linear shelf capacity. Consisting of shelving units mounted on mobile carriages that run on floor rails, it reduces the footprint of a storage system by having only one “floating” aisle instead of a series of fixed aisles.
