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E B Creasy Factory Complex

This is one of the very first buildings done By Satra. The requirement from the Client was to do a structural design and develop a building to utilize as factory premises in the E.B. Creasy Factory Site at Padukka. The Building was done within budget and time frame. The building spanned 14,000 Square Feet.

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E. B. Creasy utilizes this factory for the production of Ninja mosquito coils. And the speciality was that this was constructed half block wall and half wall clad. The span of the factory building is 24 meters without center columns. The eve height is 6 meters panel with block wall 3 meters and then steel cladding. Span between columns, i.e. bay width of 6 meters. The monitor roof is an additional element of the building.

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M.S. Capital Maharaja Factory Complex

This is the roofing of the S-Lon Lanka Pipe Extrusion Factroy Complex. Satra was involved to do the roof of this site within a minimum time frame. The three roofs were a steel structures with a rafter span of 28.5 meters each. The unique feature of this construction is the storm water drainage system in the valley of two bays.

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The Eve heights of this building complex change from 20 feet to 40 feet. Also it should be noted that the roof three 28.5 spanned roofs connected to each other supported on concrete columns with corbel on the top. The construction also included a gabel between 40 feet eve and 20 feet eve are cladded with the supportive structure resting on the two edge rafters.

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Barefoot Factory Complex

This is article includes the two buildings done for the Barefoot Factory Complex. Namely they are the Weaving Centre and the Dye Plant. This factory complex was constructed in a different landscape, an architectural terrain on a mountainous jungle area in Meepe. The architectural view of the building is given with engineering brick wall clad.

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Here the steel structure is independent of the walls. The shape of the roof is unique where is is a symmetrical square. The roof facilitate a gutter right around the building with no center wall or columns in the building. This could be named as an Eco-friendly construction with minimal damage to the environment.

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Paradise Toys Factory Complex

The Paradise Toys Factory Complex was a construction project with multiple constructions done for Paradise Toys in its site in Madurankuliya. The construction involved two Factory Buildings, a Canteen block, a water tank complex, and a Generator and Switch-gear Room.

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The building was done with a complex foundation on a very loose soil. The building floor was elevated to 4 feet to prevent flooding and rain water during the monsoon season. Wall foundation is independent of column structure and floor is rested on to the wall foundation making it independent of the super structure.

The super structure is with no center columns with a span of 24 meters and bay length on 7.5 meter intervals. The factories are two identical buildings adjoining each other connected with intermittent bridges.

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The canteen block is a 12 meter span with 60 meter in length. The water tank complex capable of withstanding 16,000 liters. And the Generator and Switch-gear room and diesel tank with a 1,200 liters capacity.

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CIC Factory, Stores Complex Panagoda

Satra Engineering was also involved in the project of building one of the major investments of CIC Holdings. Namely the CIC Panagoda Factory and Stores Area. Here Satra conducted  5 main constructions. They are the Raw Material Stores, Finished Goods Store, Re-Packing Building, Passage area, and the Retaining wall for earth filling.

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Construction of warehouse complex was unique as the building was to be built on a rocky terrain. Major Part of the building foundations were to be laid on a rocky terrain. The Raw Material stores building was constructed on a slope with a retaining wall that was needed to hold and support the soil beneath the structure.

Raw Material Store is 27 meters in span with no center columns. The eve height is 6 meters and the bays are of 7.5 meter intervals, which make the whole building of 55 meters in length.

The finished goods store is 18 meters in span with no center columns. It too is 6 meters eve height. Bay width is 7.5 meters. The length of the building is 75 meters.

The Re-Packing store is with 16 meter span with no center columns. The height is 4 meters and has a length of 120 meters with bay intervals of 7.5 meters.

Both Finished Goods Store and Re-Packing stores are connected with a Passage area by extending the roofs of the both buildings with a span of 18 meters. Here the two buildings are at two elevations with height difference of 6 feet.

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The storm water of both eves of the covered areas has a unique draining facility connected with minimum down pipes to prevent water collection inside both buildings.