PREFAB BUILDINGS

AFFORDABLE, EFFICIENT PREFAB BUILDINGS FOR SALE OR HIRE

Ufudu provides a comprehensive range of affordable, efficient and low-maintenance prefab buildings for sale or hire, to meet your home, office or storage requirement.Whatever your particular home, office or other space needs in Southern Africa, and irrespective of the applicable scale, time frames and end uses, we provide a comprehensive range of affordable, efficient and low-maintenance prefab buildings for sale and hire.

Whether you need a mini-store for a micro-business, a classroom for 20 to 40 schoolchildren, or a full mining or construction village for hundreds of workers, complete with homes, offices and storage facilities, Ufudu is your smart choice.

Our custom-made prefab buildings, comprising modular prefab panels, can be delivered to site, erected and then maintained and refurbished by Ufudu as required. These are ideal for urgent prefab applications, when a simple, reliable and affordable building solution is needed for:

  • sites offices
  • kitchens and canteens
  • mobile homes
  • classrooms
  • dormitories
  • ablution facilities
  • shows stands and other event facilities.

All prefab units can be supplied for short- and/or long-term requirements.

FAST AND EFFICIENT PREFAB SOLUTIONS FOR HOMES, OFFICES AND MORE

In many instances, we are able to design, configure, supply and install a complete prefab accommodation solution within a week or two. At all times our goal is to supply the customer’s prefab building needs as swiftly and efficiently as possible.

Once prefab building units are delivered on site, and all the required fittings have been installed and tested, we work diligently to ensure all services – including water and electricity supply and plumbing – are functioning fully to specification. Working in partnership with our reputable suppliers, we strive to ensure stringent quality assurance management at all times.

OPTION TO PURCHASE OR HIRE UFUDU'S PREFAB BUILDINGS

Available for sale or short- and long-term hire, the respected Ufudu range of prefab buildings comes with all the required fixtures and fittings.

We also offer a wide range of customisation options to ensure that our customers have whatever features and facilities they need in a prefab home, office or other mobile unit, where, when and how they need them.

The prefab buildings are for sale or hire, and come pre-assembled or in prefabricated panels, which can be erected on site to the customer’s design requirements, on either a concrete slab foundation or a factory-manufactured, suspended floor.

PREFAB BUILDING SPECIFICATIONS

General construction

Units that are 6, 9 and 12 m in length:
Full-length, full-width structurally welded steel chassis with two 175 x 50 mm lipped-channel, longitudinal beams. Outriggers and cross-members are of 75 x 38 mm channel.

Units that are 15 and 18 m in length:
Full-length, full-width structurally welded steel chassis with two 250 x 75 mm lipped-channel, longitudinal beams. Outriggers and cross-members are of 75 x 38 mm channel.

The complete assembly is sandblasted and coated with self-etch red oxide primer. For added protection, the chassis is coated with a waterproof, malleable compound called Plaswax or similar which forms a tenacious wax-like surfacing.

Floor construction

Treated timber floorboards, 18mm thick, are glued and screwed to cross-members and covered in 2 mm industrial vinyl welded at joints. Carpet covering optional extra.

Roof and ceiling construction

The roof is a pitched roof construction consisting of the following:

Roof exterior is galvanised sheeting
Ceiling insulation is 40 mm thick high-density foam sandwiched between 0,5mm white chromadek sheeting
Ceiling finish is 0,5 mm white chromadek ceiling.

Sidewall construction

The standard exterior and interior finish is 0,5 mm Chromadek, which is a galvanised, prepainted (frost-white) finish. The perimeter and internal walls are fully insulated with 40 mm thick high-density foam. As an optional extra, chromadek sheeting with a decorative woodlike finish can be used for internal wall finishes.

Plumbing

Copper, stainless steel, or Polycop piping is used for water supply, and PVC fittings for sewerage and wastewater.

Sidewall construction

The standard exterior and interior finish is 0,5 mm Chromadek, which is a galvanised, prepainted (frost-white) finish. The perimeter and internal walls are fully insulated with 40 mm thick high-density foam. As an optional extra, chromadek sheeting with a decorative woodlike finish can be used for internal wall finishes.

PARTITION WALLS

  • Thickness: 60 mm
  • Insulation: 50 mm mineral wool (120 kg/m³)
  • Cladding (both sides): 0,5 mm galvanised steel sheet

WINDOWS

All window frames are aluminium, top-hung and fitted with 4 mm thick glass. The area of the windows is equal to or greater than 10% of the gross floor area of each habitable room.

Electrics

Units are wired for connecting to 220 volt supply, in accordance with SABS 0142:1987, and are fitted with earth-leakage protection and distribution board. Lights, plugs, geyser and interior electrical fittings are installed as shown on the layout diagrams.

Transport and handling

It is extremely important that the following points are taken into consideration before delivery can be effected:

Site should be level and compacted. It should not slope more than 200 mm over the length and 100 mm over the width of the unit.
Site must be accessible for an abnormally large load. All trees and/or other obstacles that may be in the way must be removed beforehand to allow easy access.
Gates into property must be a minimum of 4 m wide, and truck must have a straight runup of at least 25 m, to allow bigger units (9 m and upwards) to be offloaded into position, and allow trucks to drive out from under unit after having lifted it.
Unit will be dropped onto trestles and levelled in order to allow doors to open freely. Final levelling must be done by client unless siting is done and charged for by Speedspace.
A site inspection prior to delivery can be arranged.
All equipment used for loading and off-loading of units is certified and load tested.

OPTIONAL EXTRAS

  • Exterior skirting
  • Carpets
  • Burglar bars
  • Flyscreens for both windows and doors
  • Curtains or blinds
  • Air conditioner
  • Three-phase electrics
  • Geysers (gas or electric)
  • Kitchen appliances (gas or electric)
  • Carports
  • Floor insulation
  • Other fittings/applications as per customer request.