Die Cairo Monorail ist ein zweigleisiges Einschienenbahn-Schnellverkehrssystem in Kairo, Ägypten, das sich derzeit im Bau befindet. Nach Abschluss des Projekts werden die beiden Linien die ersten öffentlichen Verkehrsverbindungen von der neuen Verwaltungshauptstadt und der Stadt des 6. Oktober in die Metropolregion Kairo bieten.

Die 54 Kilometer lange Strecke zwischen der Neuen Verwaltungsstadt und Ost-Kairo wird 60 Minuten dauern, während die 42 Kilometer lange Strecke zwischen der Stadt des 6. Oktober und Gizeh 42 Minuten dauern würde.

Die Anfänge supplied more than 300,000 Bartec standard and bridging couplers for the connection of reinforcement bars. Bartec is simple to install and does not require professional skilled labor, which reduces labor on the job site, formwork costs, and increases job site safety.

Around 400,000 Bartec headed bars were also installed as a replacement for Endhaken in concrete members and connections.

Moreover, the project used Unitec bolted couplers in repair works for the connection of two rebars which have not or cannot be threaded.

Die erste Stufe des Systems wird im Jahr 2022 der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht, gefolgt von einer zweiten Stufe im Jahr 2023.

The Forrestfield Airport Link is a rail infrastructure project lolcated in Perth, Western Australia. The 8.5km line will connect the existing Midland Line to Perth International Airport and further to the eastern suburbs. The project features two twin-tunnels bored with Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) which move up to 26 meter underneath the bed of Swan river, highways and Perth Airport, adding three new stations to the city’s transportation network: Belmont, Airport Central and Forrestfield.

For the tunnel boring packages, Die Anfänge supplied a total of 10 GFK Weiche Augen between 2016 and 2017 (two for Airport Central Station, two in Abernethy, four in Belmont and two in Bayswater) to the contractor JV of Salini Impregilo and NRW Salini Impregilo. Weiche Augen are rebar cages made mostly of Glass-Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GRFP) bars and some steel rebar. Weiche Augen can be cut by the TBMs and allow faster equipment breakthrough, saving precious time while avoiding to damage the TBM heads.

Die Anfänge also supplied a total of 65,000 Griptec connections for the station works. Griptec is distributed in Western Australia by Dextra’s partner InfraBuild Construction Services. They offer the complete service to the contractor: Cutting the rebar, preparing the bar ends with Griptec sleeves and bending them for final installation on site. This allows the contractor to achieve faster cycle times in rebar connection on site .

Sonitec, Dextra’s steel tubes for Crosshole Sonic Logging tests (to check concrete integrity in bored piles) were also supplied.

The Forrestfield-Airport Link will operate in 2022.

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Die Metro Brüssel ist ein Schnellverkehrssystem, das einen großen Teil der belgischen Hauptstadtregion Brüssel bedient. Sie besteht aus 4 konventionellen U-Bahn-Linien und 3 Vor-U-Bahn-Linien.

Line 3 is a tram line that runs through the city center from Churchill in the south to Esplanade in the north, using the North-South Axis tunnel. The total route will be 10.3km long.

An 150m long new tunnel was dug underneath the Brussels North railway station to connect two existing underground tunnels. It was an important component of the new metro link.

Dextra supplied Sonitec, a tube solution that facilitates the integrity testing of foundations using the CSL testing method, to the construction site of Line 3. 13 kilometers of the tubes were installed in the 18m long pile cages.

Der Sonitec system has been designed with the sole purpose of being easy to assemble and install in reinforcement cages.

The Cairo Metro is a rapid transit system in Greater Cairo, Egypt. It was the first of three fully-fledged metro systems built in Africa, as well as the first in the Arab world. It began service in 1987 as Line 1 between Helwan and Ramsis Square, covering a distance of 29 kilometers.

The Cairo Metro currently has 74 stations, 3 of which are transfer stations, with a total length of 89.4 kilometers as of August 2020. There are three operating lines in the system.

The new line, line 4, will run from Makram Ebeid Station to Police Academy Station near the Ring Road, with bored tunnels following Doctor Hassan El-Sherif Street and Ahmed El-Zomor Street. It will be 24 kilometers in total length.

Construction began in Q3 2019 and is expected to be completed in 2024.

Dextra has supplied 450,000 Bartec+ couplers and 42 GFK soft-eyes for the Bewehrung of the Schlitzwände.

Bartec+ is a mechanical splicing system with parallel threads for connecting concrete reinforcement bars with diameters ranging from 12 to 50 mm (ASTM #4 to #18). The threaded rebars are tensile tested at 90% of the rebar yield strength.

Dextra’s GFK soft-eyes solution is an integrated turn-key solution that uses cut-able Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFK) Bewehrung as an alternative to traditional steel rebars, allowing the penetration of Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) to pass through Schlitzwände with ease.

The Lucknow Metro project is built to serve the growing population of Uttar Pradesh, North India, as well as to serve the areas that are not connected by the existing rail system. The 35km rail system comprises 22 stations, of which 19 will be elevated.

The first phase of the project consists construction of 2 rail lines (North- South and East-West corridor), connecting the four corners of Lucknow by running through the heart of the city. Being implemented by Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC), the Phase 1 comprises the construction of 22.8km long North-South corridor.

The priority section is the 8.5 kilometers linking Transport Nagar to Charbagh.
Once operational, the Lucknow Metro will help ease the traffic in the city, and will also reduce commuters’ travel time.

The Lima Metro is a rapid transit system in Peru, currently linking Villa El Salvador district in the south of Lima with San Juan de Lurigancho, in the northeast area of the city. The Metro Line 1 started its operation in 2011 with 26 stations, making a total of 34.6 kilometers, the longest metro line in the Americas.

Die Anfänge is proud to contribute to the construction of Metro Line 2 and the initial phase of Line 4, both of which commenced simultaneously in 2016. Line 2, a 27-kilometer fully underground transit route, will seamlessly connect Lima’s Ate district with the Callao region. Meanwhile, the first 8-kilometer segment of Line 4 will serve as a crucial link between Line 2 and the Jorge Chávez International Airport station, enhancing connectivity for commuters and travelers alike.

More than 160,000 Rolltec rebar couplers have been supplied to the Metro construction site to avoid rebar congestion of the traditional overlapping method.

Several types of Rolltec couplers were installed in various parts of the stations’ structures, including standard couplers size #8, #11 and #14, and transition couplers size #8 and #11.

The full line will be operational in 2024.

Etihad Rail is a 1,200-kilometer railway project that will be the first national freight and passenger railway network in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), connecting the seven emirates and promoting trade and social development in the country and across the GCC countries.

Das Eisenbahnprojekt soll eine nachhaltige Alternative für den Güter- und Personentransport in den städtischen und ländlichen Gebieten des Emirats sein. Es wird erwartet, dass etwa 16 Millionen Passagiere und 50 Millionen Tonnen Fracht befördert werden. Es wird einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Reduzierung der Emissionen im Straßenverkehr leisten.

Das Etihad Rail-Netzwerk reicht im Westen bis an die Grenzen von Katar und Saudi-Arabien. Der westliche Abschnitt ist über Ghweifat mit Saudi-Arabien verbunden, während der östliche Abschnitt über Al Ain mit Oman verbunden ist. Die Eisenbahnlinie verbindet Abu Dhabi, Sharjah und Dubai und verläuft quer durch das Emirat. Anschließend geht es weiter in die nördlichen Emirate und nach Fujairah.

Der Ausbau des Schienennetzes erfolgt in 3 Etappen. Die erste Phase des 2016 eröffneten Eisenbahnnetzes ist eine 266 Kilometer lange westliche Strecke zwischen Al Ruwais und Shah. Es verbindet Ruwais und Habshan und dann Habshan und Shah.

Die zweite Phase verbindet Abu Dhabi mit Dubai. Es ist auch mit den Häfen Jebel Ali, Musaffah und Khalifa verbunden. In der dritten Phase geht es um die Anbindung der nördlichen Emirate. Die Fertigstellung der zweiten und dritten Phase ist für 2024 geplant.

Dextra liefert derzeit verschiedene technische Lösungen für die zweite Phase des Schienennetzbaus, zu der der Bau einer 200 km langen Hauptstrecke in Abu Dhabi und einer 40 km langen Nebenstrecke zum Hafen Khalifa, einer 78 km langen Hauptstrecke in Dubai und einer 20 km langen Nebenstrecke nach Jebel gehört Ali-Hafen, eine 98 km lange Hauptstrecke von Sharjah nach Fujairah und eine 29 km lange Nebenstrecke nach Tawyeen sowie zugehörige Einrichtungen.

Diese Lösungen wurden auf die Baustelle des Eisenbahntunnels geliefert.

• 110,000 Bartec couplers for concrete structure reinforcement.
• 32,000 Sonitec tubes for the CSL (crosshole sonic logging) testing of foundation piles.
• 69,000 steel rock-bolts for stabilizing rock excavations.
• 400 GFRP (Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer) rock-bolts.
• 660 umbrella pipes for stabilizing tunnel headings.

Quelle des oberen Bildes: https://filipinotimes.net/news/2019/12/19/coming-soon-rail-network-linking-dubai-fujairah-khorffakan-ports/

The 37km-long Light Rail Transit Line 3 (LRT3) is a light rail line under development in Malaysia. It includes a 35km viaduct and a 2km underground tunnel which will link Bandar Utama with Johan Setia in Klang.

Developed in line with the Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley (GKL/KV) Land Public Transport Masterplan, LRT3 will play a strategic part in extending rail connectivity to the Western Corridor of GKL/KV.

Dextra provided cuttable Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) soft-eye solutions, installed in diaphragm walls of escape shafts, in order to facilitate the underground tunnel breakthrough by the Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM).

The LRT3 project is expected to serve 2-million people across the alignment by improving connectivity, alleviating traffic congestion and stimulating economic growth along the Western Corridor of Klang Valley, from Klang to Petaling Jaya.

The construction is scheduled for completion by February 2024.

Panama Metro Line 3 is a 34km-long monorail line being developed as part of the Panama metro project. It will be the largest project in the country since the expansion of the Panama Canal.

The line will establish a connection between the province of Panama Oeste and the province of Panama, reducing the average travel time by half, from 90 minutes to 45 minutes. The monorail system will be the first to use Japanese technology in the Americas.

Dextra supplied 260,000 Bartec couplers for the elevated monorail structure’s piling column and precast beam connection.

Sonitec tubes were also used to examine the concrete integrity of bore-piles using the crosshole sonic logging testing method.

Expected to begin operations in mid-2025, the line will benefit more than 500,000 residents of the Panama Oeste province.

Image credit: Línea 3 del Metro de Panamá YouTube Channel, www.elmetrodepanama.com

The Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works Relocation project was aimed to relocate the Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works (STW) in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, which is currently located at the mouth of the Shing Mun River, to the cavern site at Nui Po Shan of A Kung Kok on the opposite bank, freeing up the existing site for uses beneficial to people’s livelihood and improving the local living environment.

The future Sha Tin Cavern STW will be the largest of its kind in Hong Kong, occupying 14 hectares of land. It will have the same treatment capacity as the current site, but will use advanced sewage treatment technology to meet local population demands and improve services for residents.

For the tunneling works, Dextra has supplied around 800 pieces of GEOTEC™ GFRP rock-bolts for the tunnel’s temporary supporting.

GEOTEC™ GFRP rock-bolts are made of cut-able glass fiber reinforced polymers, making them perfect for face bolting or any other tunneling and mining application where further excavation is required.

Source of images: https://ststwincaverns.hk/