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PORTAL BIKES WAREHOUSE

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FACTORY
KATHMANDU, NEPAL
2017
4800 SQ FT

Portal is an organization dedicated to fighting poverty, founded in 2013 as Portal Bikes in Kathmandu, Nepal. Their vision is to “see the world set free by the bicycle”. In addition to producing cargo bicycles, they continue to provide Portal Prefab building kits for houses, schools and community centers across Nepal.

For their new workshop, Petram provided site drainage, slope stability, and structural engineering design in back and forth collaboration with Portal who were acting as the architect, steel fabricator, and contractor for the project. The 830 square metre workshop serves as manufacturing and office space for Portal’s operations. The building is a 2 story steel frame, with moment frames in one direction and braced bays in the other. Steel construction is gaining traction in Nepal after the earthquake, and the Portal workshop is an excellent example of what can be done with structural steel as a building material.

STRUCTURE DESIGN
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