Textile and metallic parking canopies
Textile and metallic parking canopies

Textile and metallic parking canopies

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Europa Prefabri Group, specialised in construction, design, manufacture and install of textile and metallic parking canopies for cars and other uses, has 30 years of experience in this sector. Today, we will give you some information about textile canopies.

Modular and flexible structures

All our structures have been designed, manufactured and installed according to the demands of our customers, for different sectors and even for houses.

Textile and metallic parking canopies are known for their great modularity, this means, the canopy modules can be added depending on the free space, with which there is a guarantee of perfect esthetic harmony and a better cost optimisation.

These structures can include the customers’ logo as well as institutional information and it’s possible to paint them.

Maximum quality

Textile and metallic parking canopies have steel structures made from different alloys of great quality, they can be galvanised and lacquered after with the colour the customer wants. B2 concrete foundries differ depending on the structure needed and they are fixed to the metal-textile structures with fastenings that guarantee the needed stability.

The parking canopies structures’ roofs are resistant, covered in PVC and lacquered. The lacquering process ensures a maximum impermeability, UV ray protection, thermal isolation, they are easy to clean and have non-stick properties (against particles, snow, etc.).

Uses of textile and metallic parking canopies

  • Parking canopies: available in different versions, simple or double.
  • Bars and restaurants.
  • Playground areas.
  • Gas station
Solar energy charging stations
Solar energy charging stations
Solar energy charging stations

Solar energy charging stations: solar carports for electric cars

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Europa Prefabri group, specialized in modular construction and in the design, manufacturing and installation of metal parking canopies, and Sendekia, an enterprise that works in the renewable energy sector and develops products that allow projects to adapt to sector changes, collaborate to offer a sustainable energetic solution for electric cars charging station: Solar energy charging stations.

What are the solar energy charging stations?

They are a part of the stabilizing elements of the electrical vehicles charging infrastructure. This allows to minimize consumption peaks through the production of photovoltaic energy during the daytime. They produce the energy needed to recharge cars  and they also minimize the electric bill of the enterprise or household where the station is installed.

How do solar energy charging stations work?

funcionamiento de las fotolineras

  • During the hours of sun, the station produces energy enough to charge the electric vehicle and the energy left is transferred to the internal net or to the electricity grid.
  • On cloudy days, when climate conditions are not the best, this stations keep on generating energy but on a lower degree. At this point, the demand is fulfilled using the grid (with the energy previously produced).
  • At night, the station can’t produce any energy, so it uses the grid to provide energy (the electricity grid keeps the energy produced during the hours of sun).

Recharge points for solar carports

fotolineras diferentes tipos de recarga

There are two different ways of charging station depending on their functioning:

  • Smart: used on public streets, public and private parkings. All the events of the recharge point are register with an RFID card user and allows to monitor actions through an Internet management platform.
  • Without access card to validate the user. They are normally used in houses.

Different charge points offered:

  • Basic and slow.
  • Basic and fast.
  • Smart and slow.
  • Smart and fast.

Type of conexion to the vehicle or AC Power

  • Monophasic (230V)
  • Triphasic (400V)

Advantages of solar energy charging stations:

ventajas de las fotolineras

  • Susteinability: solar energy is a clean energy source, it doesn’t produce emissions of CO2, improving the reduction of greenhouse effect and climate change.
  • Protection: protects cars from sun while charging them.
  • Advertising: enterprises can use the structure as an advertising area, as they are usually in crowded places.
  • Usability: we use an automatic self-service system to plug the car and leave it parked while it’s charging, so the owner can do something else. Solar charging stations are prepared for slow or fast charge, so they can adapt to the evolution and improvements of these cars.
  • Affordability: easy to install, its maintenance is not difficult nor demanding. The car charging in these solar carports means spending five times less than with fossile fuels and they translate into great savings in the electrical bill.

 

Solar carports
Solar carports

Special solar carports: eco-friendly and innovative solutions

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Solar energy comes from the exploitation of the electromagnetic radiation that comes from the Sun. Today there are many technologies that allow to use this radiation, where the most extended is the photovoltaic solar energy, the energy used by our solar carports, that you can check here.

Spain is the country of Europe with more hours of sun per day, due to its extraordinary geographical location. Nevertheless, Germany, with four hours of sun per day less than Spain, is the greatest solar energy producer in Europe.

 

During the last six months in 2016, the electric bill in Spain has increased its price on a 25% approximately. Something that is hard to explain, as Spain has a surplus of energy production and three of the greatest Spanish electric companies have produced a benefit of more than 4 billions in the first nine months of 2016.

Experts explained that this happens because there is no free competition due to the restrictive policies that State has applied to the sector during the last years, penalizing renewable energies.

 

Spain passed from being one of the countries with more facilities of solar power, to be exceeded by countries with less profitable climate conditions, such as France, Germany and the UK.

Renewable energies are a decisive factor in the economic stability of the country, as they contribute to balance our deficit in the balance of payments, reducing imports of fossil fuels, helping this way to reduce the CPI.

Currently, these policies are reverting, making it easier to have access to subventions and regional financing to favour self-supply, that are perfectly applicable to our solar carports.

Solar carportsMarquesinas de parking solar

Europa Prefabri is committed to a sustainable future. That is why this enterprise has acquired more than 30 years of experience in parking canopies and metal structures, with the technical knowledge of ASIF (Photovoltai Industry Association), that became the UNEF (Spanish Photovoltaic Union), after its’ fusion with AEF and APPA Fotovoltaica, to design and calculate the perfect height and inclination of the parking canopies to install solar panels, without losing its functionality as a conventional parking. This way the square meters used for obtaining solar energy are optimised.

Without any doubts, this is a step further to achieve the environmental goals in our country.

 

Control cabins
Control cabins
Control cabins

Control Cabins and security guard cabins for the recycling plant of Madrid Community

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We have manufactured and supplied new control cabins. These security guard cabins where manufactured for recycling plants located on a clean recycling point in Madrid.

These guard cabins are built by assembling different prefabricated modules, custom-designed, with glazed walls taking into account our customer’s demands of visibility and security.

Our customer once again trusted us, as we had previously worked on this clean spot:

 

Parking canopiesTechos para aparcamiento de coches en punto limpio

Manufacturing and installation of parking canopies A model, with a simple distribution of eleven and ten parking spaces, painted in blue.

Control cabins for recycling facilities

Cabinas de vigilancia para plantas de reciclaje

Three security guard and control cabins, are created by assembling prefabricated construction modules.

Europa Prefabri manufactures any kind of modules, adapting them to the needs of our customer.

 

Modular construction

Security guard and control cabins are another of the different uses of modular constructions. Modular constructions have endless uses:

  • Portable cabins.
  • Prefabricated schools.
  • Dressing rooms and dining rooms.
  • Guard cabins.
  • Labs and control space.
  • Industrial facilities.
  • Prefabricated labour camps.
  • Prefabricated houses.
  • Special modules, perfect for advertising stands, cafes, customer service, kiosks, real state promotion…

Advantages of modular construction

In between the advantages of modular constructions, we can find the rapidness on the manufacturing and delivering, low costs, low resources-consumption as it is eco-friendly and with a less generation of waste. If you want to know more, visit the article “Advantages of modular construction“.

Prefabricated houses in Panama, Prefabri Steel

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Prefabricated houses made with the construction system “Steel Frame Light Concrete Plus”

Prefabri Steel keeps on working on its international projection of industrialized households, in this case on a prefabricated houses new project in South America.

Industrialised construction is more environmentally friendly, efficient and with a lower cost than traditional construction. If you need to know more, visit the advantages of industrialised construction in the following link.

Our last project was assembling the first industrialised house at La Chorrera, a residential area on expansion close to Panamá City (Republic of Panamá).

We have manufactured it with the construction system Panel 1 “Steel Frame Light Concret Plus“.

This system is approved by the Technical Board of Engineering and Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works, Government of Panamá, since 2013.

The structure assembling of the house took 2 days:

  • First day: for all the industrialised panels made of lightweight concrete with polystyrene.
  • Second day: assembling of trusses, straps and roof.
  • The house was completely finished in 7 days.

 

Special offer for industrialised households

This special offer includes 225 industrialised households, which have:

  • A 72 m2
  • 3 bedrooms
  • 2 full bathrooms.
  • Kitchen, living room and dining room
  • External laundry room.
  • Covered parking for 2 cars
  • All of it in 200 m2

This special offer includes 225 industrialised households, which have:

  • A 72 m2
  • 3 bedrooms
  • 2 full bathrooms.
  • Kitchen, living room and dining room
  • External laundry room.
  • Covered parking for 2 cars
  • All of it in 200 m2

Assembly of modular prefabricated houses

The assembly has been made by Panamanian workers, supervised by an architect sent from Prefabri Steel to collaborate and coordinate work with our customer, who had already prepared the foundation slabs before panels and other construction elements had arrived. Local participation is a must in all our international projects.

 

Modular isolated warehouse for skis at Benasque, Huesca

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We show you our prefabricated modular isolated warehouse, with mountain bungalow design with a two slopes sandwich panel over-roof cover established at the Aragon Pyrenees, specifically at the skiing station of Cerler, in Benasque’s Valley (Huesca).

Technical features for the prefabricated modular isolated warehouse

The isolated warehouse consists of a bright customized portacabin building or cabin of 6.00 x 4.80 meters.

This kind of modular construction is perfect for places with extreme climate, because of its good isolation with rockwool panels of 100mm sandwich panels.

The over roof has been manufactured with detachable sheets to make easier its transportation and installation, completely portable building.

This is another example of the uses of our portacabins, that can be installed in all kinds of places, from beaches to high mountains, in extreme conditions.

 

 

Customized shipping containers | Prefabri

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We show you new examples of transformations, making customized shipping containers containers for different uses, you can see some examples here:

  • Prefabricated dressing rooms.
  • Fabrication of new prefab
  • Prefabricated
  • Portacabins
  • Modular cabins, such as sea containers for the installation of access control points.
  • Hubs for telecommunications and shelters
  • Portable Bars and kiosks
  • Portacabin
  • Advertising spaces.

All of them executed by modular architecture and/or industrialised construction.

Hard, safe and with a distinctive design.

Prefabricated offices in Toulouse, France | Prefabri

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Prefabricated offices building in Toulouse, France

We have finished the assembling of this building, prefabricated offices for one of our customers at Toulouse (France).

This is an office building of 300 m2, composed by 20 modules in two stages, with inside stairs.

The structure is hidden by an external panel of 100 mm sándwich polyurethane panelthat allows us to meet the requirements of the French legislation RT2012 regarding the thermal isolation demanded.

We include an external covering structure, as voice and data installation.

It has a double false roof, 80×80, on rock wool sandwich panel. The windows glasses have dimensions of 4-12-4 and include blinders.

All this meets the requirements of the demanding french code for thermal and acoustic isolation, that intents to:

  • Reduce energy consumption and emission of greenhouse gases.
  • Promote the development of new technologies.
  • Energetic Efficiency in buildings (with a consumption of 50 kWh/m2/year).

Minimum comfort in the summer, without a need of having an air conditioning system.

Our most important works in France were:

  • Design, manufacture, transport and assembling of parking canopies for E. Leclerc supermarkets in Norbonne, France. There, we installed hot galvanised parking canopies with a special high for vehicles with roof rack and caravans.
  • The design, manufacture, transport and assembling of three assemblings of modular offices for construction works in Reims, that include:
    • First ensemble: 3 modules of 6×2.40 m, one of them with a bathroom.
    • Second ensemble: 5 modules of 6×2.40 m, one of them with a bathroom.
    • Third ensemble: 15 modules of 6×2.40 m, in two heights, with external stairs. In this ensemble, there are 3 full bathrooms.
  • Design, manufacture, transport and assembling of special modules at Perpignan, France. This project consisted of a restaurant located by the beach that has been constructed out of prefabricated modules and cabins with special technical specifications for its use as a restaurant.

International Transport

For this construction works, our modules can be completely dismantled and we transport them using the KIT/FLAT-PACK system, designed to optimize the available space and reduce logistics costs, making easier at the same time the assembling at destination.

International presence

We want to promote the internationalisation of our enterprise, for instance, taking part in the French international event Batimat. We went as exhibitors in its last two editions (2013 and 2015) and we hope to be there in 2017 edition too.