IABSE Award 2023

Our project “Ponte sull’Adige” has been selected among the finalists for the “IABSE Award 2023” (https://www.iabse.org/IABSEAwards) in the “Small Road and Rail Bridges” category.

There are a total of 5 finalist projects in the aforementioned category: in addition to ours, there are 4 bridges, built respectively in India, China, Canada and Sweden. ( Click here to see all the shortlisted projects in the various categories ).

We just have to wait for the final award ceremony, which will be held in Zurich on November 8th!

25 July 2023 News

“Costruzioni metalliche” 02/2023: “Acciaierie d’Italia” factory in Taranto

OMO Park

Coverage of the OMO of Taranto was also included in issue 02/2023 of the magazine Costruzioni in Acciaio.

The safe confinement steel structure for the OMO (raw materials) park in Taranto has plan dimensions of 110 x 385m and is made up of 63 trussed arches, spaced by 6.20 m and with a maximum height of approximately 42m

On our YouTube channel there is an interesting Timelapse that shows the assembly phases in detail.

We refer to the magazine and to the Collegio Tecnici Acciaio website for further details.

6 July 2023 News

G.E.R.Dam Project (Ethiopia)

The main hydroelectric plant in Africa

Our sheds for the Power House and Erection Bay for the new electrical system of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance DAM ( G.E.R.DAM ) built in Ethiopia are illustrated in the Costruzioni Metalliche magazine 2/2023.
An enormous plant which, with an annual electricity production capacity of almost 16,000 gigawatts, will be the largest hydroelectric plant in Africa.

The sheds covering the Power Units of the new hydroelectric plant on the Blue Nile consist of two types of statically independent metal structures: two Erection Bay blocks and eight Power Houses on the right bank while on the left bank there are five Power Units and a single Erection Bay block. Each structural unit covers an area of approximately 4400 square meters, with a total longitudinal length of 52-60 m and a width of approximately 27 m.

For further details, see the Costruzioni Metalliche magazine.

Click HERE for the reference article on the website www.collogiotecniciacciaio.it .

30 June 2023 News

Braila suspension bridge

Today we virtually take you to Romania to talk to you about a work that will surely be much talked about, once completed: the suspension bridge over the Danube, in Braila. It is a suspension bridge characterized by 3 spans, whose central span is 1120 m and whose overall development is 1974.30 m.
For this bridge, on behalf of Fincantieri Infrastructure S.p.A., we took care of the executive design of the assembly and transport equipment of the deck macro-segments having dimensions of approximately 30×40 m. In addition to the sizing of all the equipment necessary for the development of the assembly activities of the single macro-segment, the task entrusted to us included the structural analysis of the ashlars of the deck caisson, both in the survey phase (position on 4 supports), handling ( 4 or 8 supports) and storage. In particular for the survey phases, in addition to defining the appropriate reinforcements to the lower orthotropic slab of the segments in the provisional support areas, the deformed configurations during the stationing phase on 4 supports were evaluated for each type of macro-segment envisaged in the project (preliminary the geometric relief of the segment and the subsequent trimming of the sheets) and in the lifting phase in the final position for the evaluation of the geometric congruence of the segments before the execution of the definitive welded joints between segment and segment.
Ample space was dedicated to the suspension bridge of Braila in the paper magazine “Costruzioni Metalliche”, published in the February 2022 edition.
To find out more about this bridge, which is expected to be completed in 2022, please refer to an article published by Steel Technical College, which you can view at this link: https://www.collegiotecniciacciaio.it/2022/04/28/il-ponte-sospeso-sul-danubio-a-braila-progetto-e-stato-attualecostruzioni-metalliche-n-2-2022/

12 July 2022 News