Presentation

Identity

Founded : 1979
Staff : 10 people
CEO : Jacques Prat
Turnover 2002 : 700k Euros
Export : 50% (the Mediterranean rim)
Research & Development : 10%

Activity

PRAT SA, Special Structure Engineering is 24 years old

Study and design of high tech structures for public works and civil engineering :
Textile, metal-textile
Structural glass
Suspension structures, tensile structures, free-standing structures, etc.

Diversification

Several patents permitted in different fields : Textile structures, Fixings, Mechanics.

RoDo Dôme : a high-tech process for IMAX cinemas : mechanical system which consists in combining in one theater a flat screen and a dome screen (www.itfit.com).
AutoShade : a modular shelter to produce shade at the industrial level (details of the system on http://www.easystructures.com).
TridiTex : a three-dimensional roofing for all types of wide span technical or industrial constructions.

Certification

OPQIBI certification :

B 211
Prevalent metal frames without specific stability or strain problems and which do not require particular precautions with respect to assembly.
B 221
Metal frames of all spans or very high, requiring particular studies on flexibility or straining as well as particular precautions with respect to assembly, three-dimensional structures, or other specific layered two-dimensional structures.
B 224
Sophisticated metal frames requiring special technology (high power bridge crane, frames exposed to earthquakes ...)
B 226
Other frames with precise indication of specialty (cable structures, air-supported structures, wooden shell structures, spiral stairs, particular mobile structures ...)