Steel sheds in the Dominican Republic: from open cover to closed shed

In practice, a galpón and a nave are the same thing: a structure of steel frames, purlins and roof. People tend to say galpón for simple uses, such as a materials store, a workshop, an equipment park, a drying shed or a farm store, and nave when it carries more installations. They are built and calculated the same way.

The open shed, roof only, is the quickest and the cheapest to run: it gives shade, keeps off the rain and lets the air through, and suits parking, loading areas and drying. The half-closed one has sheet walls at half height or on three sides. The closed one protects goods and machinery, with roll-up or sliding doors and skylights for daylight.

Wind changes a lot depending on how many sides stay open, so the engineer is told from the start: an open shed behaves differently from a closed one.

We roof with aluzinc sheets, in conventional or tile profile, each cut to the exact length of its slope so there are no mid-slope laps. We measure the roof with digital equipment before fabricating. If the shed is near the sea, we ask about salt air from the first conversation.

A shed can be lengthened with one more frame, given a mezzanine or closed in later. Say so when you ask for a quote and the design allows for it: thinking about it before fabrication costs less than opening a structure that is already erected.

We cut with the laser, weld and paint in our plant on Av. Barceló, and our own crew erects on your plot, in Bávaro, Santo Domingo, Santiago or wherever your job is. If the shed needs lighting, pumps or equipment, we assemble the panels on our electrical line so structure and power arrive together.