The International Commerce Centre is a landmark skyscraper in Hong Kong, located in West Kownloon. Thecommercial building is 484 meters high and features 108 floors. It is still to date the tallest building in Hong Kong and among the 10 tallest buildings in the world.

Vertical reinforcement is by definition a key feature for buildings of that height. Consultant ARUP and contractor Sanfield picked Dextra for the splicing of reinforcement across the building. It is to be noted that both stakeholders had already work with Dextra on the similar Two IFC project, another famous 400m+ skyscraper, which was completed a few years earlier.

For this project, Dextra supplied more than 800,000 rebar couplers. Those were used to perform most vertical connections on the structure, in particular all columns.

Rebar couplers also provided connection points for second phase rebar reconnection. Typically between columns and slabs, and between columns and beams. To do so the rebar coupler are aligned horizontally and cast in concrete. Reconnection is only performed at a later stage by screwing in second stage rebar.

Bartec is the preferred reinforcement splicing solution of contractors in Hong Kong as the solutionis recommended in the Hong Kong Building Material List.Dextra also operates its own rebar threading workshop in Hong Kong, providing the rebar preparation service for its customers.