TRADITIONAL OF PREFAB HOMES?

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Until now, when we asked ourselves whether we wanted traditional or prefab homes, the answer was always quick: we preferred traditional ones.

Traditional construction assures security, as the house is built with bricks and concrete; and offers variety of designs and durability over time. However, more and more families are discovering the advantages of prefabricated construction.

Prefab homes arise as a result of the evolution that architecture and engineering have undergone in recent years. This evolution resulted in the application of the highest technology to finishes, designs and construction materials, thus allowing the appearance of a wide variety of prefab homes: steel, wood, concrete… all of them with two characteristics in common: reduced costs and shorter construction time.

Prefab homes have many advantages. Among them we can highlight: construction time, which is reduced by half compared to traditional construction; use of high quality materials, that show high resistance to climate changes and meteorological phenomena; portability, being recoverable by more than 90%; safety, provided by the appropriate assembly technique; variety of designs, with more than a thousand finishes; minimum maintenance needed and, of course, reduced costs.

In Silicon Valley itself, where access to housing is difficult even for engineers from large companies like Amazon and Google, these companies have ordered 300 prefab homes for their employees, saving up to $700 a month.

Former employees of huge companies like Aaron Holm, who worked in product management for Amazon, or Michael Marks, one of Tesla’s first investors, have been quick to create startups dedicated to the manufacture and assembly of prefab homes. The business incubator Y Combinator, cradle of the successful Airbnb, Dropbox or Reddit, has also decided to invest in this future-oriented construction and has gone one step further: it has created a startup, Acre Desingns, which creates prefabricated and energy-efficient homes.

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Manufacture and assembly of site office at Reims (North of France)| Prefabri Africa

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Prefabri Africa has carried out a new modular construction project in France. Last October we have finished the manufacture and assembly of three different site offices at Reims (North of France) for construction project purposes.

Technical features: Site offices at Reims

  • First tranch site offices: composed of 3 portable cabins of 6 x 2,40 m, one of them with a bathroom.
  • Second tranch site offices: composed of 5 portable cabins of 6 x 2,40 m, one of them with a restroom.
  • Third tranch site offices: composed of 15 portable cabins of 6 x 2,40 m, in two heights, with outside stairs. In this ensemble, there are 3 full restrooms.

For transport and logistics, we have manufactured 5 portable bathrooms for the site office completely finished and the other portable cabins have been manufactured and transported on KITS, for its assembly at the construction works.

As you will see in the pictures we attach, the structure is painted in the customer’s corporate colour.

The manufacture of the different site offices has been made with double panel in most of the modules to allow its individual use in the future or with different configurations. As permanent or temporal works infrastructure, portable cabins construction camps are the best option for easy assembly solutions.

The insulation of walls and windows can be adapted in thickness of material to adapt to any climate conditions or fire/sound proof applications in order to always offer the best solution and features to each project.

The spaces created with the different portable cabins and prefabricated modules can be easily adapted to the project needs: offices, dining halls, dressing rooms, bathrooms and sanitary facilities.


ADVANTAGES OF MODULAR CONSTRUCTION


Sustainability and recycling

Prefabri Africa is environmentally engaged, that is why our products are recyclable and can be dismantled. Industrialized construction allows a more efficient use of resources, by reducing toxic emissions and generating less waste.

Quality

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Industrialized construction in factory allows applying different quality controls in the production process, benefiting labour risk prevention by working on safer environments. On the other hand, it allows having a total control on the product manufacturing.

Customisation

Each customer is unique and has specific needs. The versatility of modular construction allows us to adapt our products to each customer, customizing the dimensions, distribution, materials and finishing of the constructions.

Insulation

We use innovative light materials that can have better levels of thermal and acoustic isolation and energy efficiency compared to traditional constructions.

A completely finished steel structure that consists of a floor-structure, a ceiling structure and pillars, each of them with its independent structural elements, compose prefabricated modules.

Dissembling and transportation

All modules can be easily transported, completely assembled in trucks, but also disassembled or in KIT (Flat-Pack system), which allows us to transport several modules in one truck or sea container, reducing transportation costs.

The design of our modules enables to assemble and disassemble them easily, even by personnel without any previous experience, thanks to the instructions and videos we provide.

Prefabricated modular building for Airbus | Prefabri Africa

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Prefabricated dressing rooms for Airbus at Sevilla

We have just finished the assembling of the prefabricated modular building for the Airbus Group at Sevilla.

Airbus Group is the spearheading of aerospace and defence sector in Spain, as it is one of the most important industrial corporations on an international level in the aerospace sector and the first helicopter manufacturer in the world.

The company had its origins in Construcciones Aeronáuticas S.A. (CASA), a pioneer enterprise of Spanish Aviation, created by José Ortiz Echaqüe in 1923. In the year 2000, after the fusion of CASA with Aerospatiale-Matra and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA), they became the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS). In 2014, after reorganizing, they called themselves Airbus Group.

They currently work in Spain and employ more than 11.000 workers.

Our project to them was assembling a prefabricated building for dressing rooms of 955 m2, covered in rockwool sandwich panel of 60 mm with AENOR certificate at Airbus’ factory at Sevilla, south area. The total dimensions of the building were 55,97 x 17,14 meters, assembling 63 modules of 6,62×2,35.

The whole building meets the requirements of the Technical Building Code (CTE), for structural features and thermal and acoustic isolation.

Inside the building we have installed bathroom facilities, electricity and air conditioning.

Applications for a prefabricated modular building:

  • Permanent and temporary prefab Offices
  • Prefabricated schools.
  • Dressing rooms and dining rooms.
  • Portable
  • Cabing guard modules.
  • Portacabins
  • Telecom shelters
  • Control cabins and rooms

Our most important projects in Spain for 2016 were:

  • Preferential carport parking at Málaga’s airport for AENA, with 90 parking spaces OLA model with a “small wave” roof, divided into two simple modules, the first of them with 59 spaces and the second with 31 spaces. They have also provided 3 special parking canopies to cover the barrier for entrance and exit of the parking, and also another special parking canopy to cover the parking paying machines.
  • Málaga Fair: 50 modules for different uses, at the Cortijo de Torres Fairground.
  • DECODE Festival: 50 modules for different uses, such as dressing rooms for artists, production offices, ticket offices, bathrooms…
  • Mutua Madrid Open (Master 1000): ticket office modules painted in the corporation colour for the sports event and office modules for some enterprises that took part in the tournament.
  • Viñarock: supply of all the prefabricated modular building types for offices, ticket offices, dressing rooms and other uses, being a total of 60 modules. Where there were innovative products such as a module for Caja Rural that will be used for ATMs.
  • Service for Fire Prevention: prefabricated modules for security transported to their final destination by using a helicopter.
  • Red Crane Group: office prefabricated modular building. The building is made of 7 modules of different dimensions attached to form the required conditions asked by the customer. The modules have been made with standard technical features and glass frontals with a security glass.
  • Barajas airport parking: we have replaced the old carports, dismantling more than 1.200 spaces, we have cleaned up the area and manufactured and assembled 1.300 new parking spaces custom-designed by our customers, under AENA’s supervision. The works were done in 4 phases, to avoid the closure of the parking facilities.

BATIMAT 2015

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Dear friends,

We are glad to announce that we are exhibitors once more at the international fair BATIMAT 2015 that takes place this week in Paris. We would like to invite all our friends and clients to come to visit us and thank the ones who already came.

BATIMAT is the most important faire in the construction sector in France and one of the most important worldwide. Every year, thousands of exhibitors show their brand new products to an international public. http://www.batimat.com

During all the week, we will present our products directed to export and mostly our new innovative system of industrialized construction for housing, hospitals, shopping centres, industrial buildings…

We are waiting for you at: Hall 5A – Stand D16.

 

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PREFABRICATED LOCKER ROOMS

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Here is one of our constructions realized last month. It deals with a modular building of locker room for workers installed in Madrid. Our client FCC trusted in us to complete successfully their project of construction. Modules have been installed on a metallic structure to optimize the use of the whole building space, to stock some tools. Indeed, the area available is really small. This project has been realized with standard prefabricated modules, but we added a “overcovering” with two slopes to secure the impermeability of the building and to increase the heating insulation. The degree of the inclination of the “overcovering” is due to the installation of the air conditioning equipments, those ones being protected by this “overcovering”. Other characteristic of this project: in the sanitary modules the standard floor (wood + vinyl tiled) has been replaced by a specific floor, made up of trapezoidal flooring, on which has been poured the concrete. The finishing touch : ceramic floor.

JUVENTUS SOCCER SCHOOL SPAIN

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We show some photographs from the prefabricated classrooms installed in Guadalajara, that will be used to give soccer classes at the school created by the Italian team Juventus Football Team of Turin in this Spanish town.

In this case, all the modules meet the technical special requirements requested by the client and, like the rest of our modular construction, they have been designed to provide a space solution over a short period of time and special attention to finishes.