A new tunnel formwork system from Pilosio reduces the time needed for assembly. Made from standard components, this can be used for a wide range of geometries.
Liebherr has introduced innovative new concrete equipment for production and transport. The firm has developed a new compact plant as well as an efficient, low emission mixer truck for the industry.
The Voest Bridge over the Danube River is part of the A7 Mühlkreis Autobahn through Linz, Austria, is 40 years. Two bypass bridges are being constructed alongside the existing cable-stayed bridge as part of the client ASFINAG’s strategy to boost traffic capacity - around 100,000 vehicles cross the old bridge each day.
PERI says that its new VST heavy-duty shoring tower serves as load-bearing scaffold for the large bridge and civil engineering projects. Each leg on the VST (VARIOKIT Shoring Tower) system can carry a load of around 600kN (the weight of about 60 VW Golf cars or one Leopard-2 tank), and the extremely flexible modular system can be assembled as segmental sections, towers or shoring tower frames for heights up to 40m.
Navtech Radar will be showcasing the safety and economic benefits of using longer-range radar systems for Automated Incident Detection (AID) and enforcement at Intertraffic 2012. The company’s ClearWay sensor technology is currently deployed in live tunnel and above-ground environments in Northern Europe and has been further developed to provide count and classification capabilities as well as an effective counter to illegal tailgating and unsafe lane-change manoeuvres.
