SBB Intervention Centre Biasca (CI) – Automated folding doors

Client

Consorzio PMQ

(Piazzarotti SA, Mancini & Marti SA and Giovanni Quadri SA)

End client

Swiss Federal Railways

Design and site management

Swiss Federal Railways

Consorzio PMQ

(Piazzarotti SA, Mancini & Marti SA and Giovanni Quadri SA)

Construction techniques

MAG welding

Pantograph cutting, laser cutting

Bending

Description of the work

The Biasca CI was designed by SBB to house all the services needed for emergency response in the event of breakdowns or accidents, and for the maintenance related to the commissioning of the new railway line through the Gotthard Base Tunnel.

Start and end of works

2015

Role of JODA Metalcostruzioni

Our company handled the supply and installation of automated and manual folding doors providing access to the buildings for trains as well as for motor vehicles, other work vehicles and people (service doors integrated into the folding doors).

Technical features and descriptions

17 automated glazed folding doors with integrated service door

Dimensions of the smallest door: Height 4730 x Width 3520 mm

Maximum door dimensions: Height 6150 mm x Width 5720 mm

1 manual folding door

Dimensions: Height 2860 mm x Width 2870 mm

for a total of approx. 367 square metres of doors installed.

Small canopies were installed above each door to protect the motors and the related opening/closing transmission levers from the weather.

To fix each individual door to the prefabricated building, it was necessary to build structural steel portal frames made of UPE sections joined by welding and mechanically fixed to the external load-bearing walls of the building, through the intermediate insulation, and to the internal walls with threaded rods and spacers.