Miami Intermodal Center

Metro Rail & Bus Canopy at the Miami Intermodal Center

A massive project in Miami Dade County, Florida was completed in 2012 as part of the transit program for coming and going to Miami International Airport. The project gives air travelers several options to connect their journey to their mode of transportation, including car rental, bus, and train transit. The architects Perez & Perez worked with Zahner engineers, fabricators, and installers, alongside Odebrecht of Brazil to produce this extensive project, substantially completed in 2012.

Zahner is involved in several areas of the project, the most visible being the curvinlinear train canopy with window slits glaze-in throughout the whole.  The multi-million dollar contract required much of the Zahner fabrication facility, pictured below during the production of hundreds of ZEPPS™ Panels for nearly a year.

Zahner Shop floor during the production of Miami Intermodal Center

These surfaces use the latest generation of the ZEPPS™ Process, a series of systems developed for the production of complex curves and geometries. The ZEPPS™ Process also streamlines and maximizes efficiency for the construction of these curves. The Main Canopy is composed of 156 ZEPPS™ Panels, each over forty feet long, totaling nearly five-hundred feet in length.

The ZEPPS™ Panel Design was tested and re-tested in a wind-tunnel at 150PSF to withstand 250MPH winds, or nearly twice that of a category five hurricane.  The Miami Intermodal Center is situated just a mile from the airport, which is less than ten miles from the Atlantic ocean, so the potential for a hurricane is real possibility. After the panels were tested, each of the subsequent panels produced were designed and built using these specifications.

Each ZEPPS™ Panel serves as the base for the Angel Hair™ Stainless steel skin which will smoothly cover the surface of these canopies.

Zahner field operators install the ZEPPS™ Assemblies on the adjacent bus canopy.

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