Storage

NPS® pillars are designed to be assembled directly from the transport vehicle. If storage is the option, they can be stacked horizontally up to 4 levels and 3 meters high, resting on wooden planks.

For long-term storage, steel structures must be covered.

Each NPS® column is marked with an identification tag that shows the code as shown in the drawing.

For technical storage requirements, please refer to Tecnostrutture’s product assembly and installation booklet.

Installation

• Normally, from lifting to fixing, a multi-storey NPS® column is installed in 8 minutes with a team of three workers and a crane operator.
• Before installing the columns, prepare the anchor bolts fixed to the support surface, laid using the templates supplied according to the axes and dimensions of the project.
• Screw the lower nuts with the washers on them up to the required height.
• Lift the column with the crane and position it by inserting it on the anchor bolts placed at the base of the project support surface.
• With the lifting device in traction, tighten all nuts, preceded by their washers.
• Once the fixing to the base is assured and the base verticality is guaranteed, loosen the device.
• Pull the release lanyard until the pin is completely out of the hole or window in the column.
• At this point the final plumbing is completed.
• The pillar base is then fastened with anti-shrinkage pourable mortar. The thickness is given by the distance between the laying surface and the base plate of the pillar itself.
• We then move on to the integrative casting of the column.