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To facilitate the design of your project on AutoDesk Revit 2017 and later versions, Dextra has recently released its Tension Bar product family. Being intuitive and easy-to-use tools, designers and drafters will easily get a clear view of their final design.

By adding Dextra Tension Bar to your working space, get access to all Dextra’s sizes and steel grades. All attributes can be downloaded directly from our BIM download section.
Speed up the design of your structure on Revit, opt fore Dextra’s Tension Bar family!

Tutorial video: Add Dextra’s Tension Bar tools to your design on Revit 2017

How to get started?

1. Download and install the palette on your computer >> Download Tension bar tools for Revit 2017 (registration required)
2. Have a glance at your Dextra tools’ “Readme” in your .zip file and follow our step-by-step guideline
3. Extract your .zip file to any desired folder on your computer
4. Insert your Tension Bar family to your workspace
5. Enjoy your Dextra’s intuitive Tension Bar tools.

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Save the date! Dextra will be exhibiting at the World Tunnel Congress Dubai 2018, the main annual event of the tunneling industry. The event will take place at the Dubai World Trade Center from the 21st to the 26th of April 2018. For this edition, Dextra will be located booth #104. Expect to see all of Dextra’s latest ground engineering projects and innovations related to:

• Soft Eye technology to accelerate tunnel TBMs breakthroughs in shafts and stations.
• ASTEC Active Anchors, with cut-able GFRP tendons, alternative to removable anchors
• Post-tensioned Double Corrosion Protection active anchors for excavations.
• Steel rockbolts for all types of soil conditions
• Benefits of GFRP rockbolts in the context of caverns and urban environment
• Sonitec, easy-to-assemble testing tubes for CSL foundation testing
• Micropiling

To schedule a meeting during the event with our Ground Engineering specialists, please get in touch with our Dubai office:

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Dextra Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is the main manufacturing entity of Dextra Group which operates two main production facilities located in Prawet district, Bangkok. This industrial complex, strategically located with convenient access to both airport and deep sea port, is specialized in the production and export of high performance steel products for the construction industry worldwide.

In January 2018, Dextra Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has been certified by Thai Revenue Department as a “Good exporter”.
This governmental certification rewards the efforts of Dextra teams in Thailand and acknowledges the compliance of the company with a list of strict financial criteria, including:

• a sound and healthy financial situation
• the importance of exports in to the company’s total turnover
• an impeccable tax track records

The Board of Directors of Dextra Group is confident this governmental certification will highlight once more to worldwide potential business partners the good financial health of Dextra as a construction solution manufacturer, proving Dextra is trustworthy business partner able to supply on some of the world’s most ambitious construction project.

Time flies and construction projects are going strong in the United Arab Emirates. This February 2018, Dextra is celebrating 15 years of operations in Dubai, our Middle East regional hub that started Dextra expansion in the region. This is a true success story embedded in the concrete of the most famous landmarks in the Middle East!

Dextra Midde East, Dextra first entity in the Gulf, has grown to become a leading provider of technical solutions for the construction sector in the region, participating to most of challenging infrastructure and supertower projects. We would like to thank to all the customers, users, prescriptors which have been using Dextra products across the years.

Leader in reinforcement splice and equipment in the Middle East

Our concrete reinforcement solutions in the Middle East are distributed through a strong network of cut & bend distributors located across 6 countries. We would like to give them a very special “Thank you” as our success in the Gulf is also theirs!

Dubai Airport, UAE	Mecqua Mataf Expansion, KSA	Mega Reservoirs, Qatar
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Made-to-order systems for large construction projects

For Dextra other two construction business lines, Engineered Bar Systems and Ground Engineering solutions, Dextra distributes directly its taylor-made solutions to local and international contractors in the region.

Our typical projects include infrastructures like ports, oil & gas terminals, airports, bridges and flyovers but also large building such as shopping centers.

Jaber Causeway, Kuwait	Green Duba ISCC, KSA	Aqaba Terminal, Jordan
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As we already prepare the next 15 years, Dextra solutions started embracing the innovations that will make the productive construction industry of tomorrow, including precast and the digital BIM revolution.

All the team across the Middle East is looking forward to meeting you soon to discuss with you the amazing projects that will create the Middle East of the next 15 years!

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Are you familiar with the Groutec sleeve system? Groutec is Dextra main precast connection solution. It consists of a sleeve fixed onto the reinforcement inside the precast element thanks to a threaded connection.

At the construction site, connection between two precast elements is achieved by injecting non-proprietary grout in the coupler’s cavity, removing all need for an in-situ wet joint between.

Dextra Groutec AutoCAD tool

How to get started ?

1. Download and install AutoCAD palette .zip >> Download (registration required)
2. Download and open Groutec datasheet >> Download (registration required)
3. Gather precast element dimensions and reinforcement detail.
4. In AutoCAD, insert couplers and/or positioning accessories. Change rebar size by simply clicking on blue arrow..
5. After insertion, product order codes can be retrieved by double clicking on coupler.

Headed Bars are anchorages made of a rebar prepared with a thread on which is fixed an end anchor (the head). They generally act as a substitute to hooks in congested reinforcement areas.
Headed Bars are a way for designers to reduce steel congestion. Contractors also appreciate Headed Bars as they improve concrete flow and are easy/fast to install (double heads especially can be locked by rotating the anchor).

Headed Bars are fully compatible with Dextra threaded systems. On Bartec, Fortec, Rolltec, the end anchor is fixed on an A-type threaded rebar. For Griptec, the anchors fit onto a male sleeve. No extra equipment is required.

For more information about technical uses for Headed Bars, please visit the dedicated page:

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Duba ISCC Green Power Plant 1 is a large power infrastructure project taking place in the North West of Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea. The project, based on the ISCC technology (Integretad Solar Combined Cycle) is a combined Gas (500 MW) and Solar (additional 50MW) power generation plant.

For Duba Green Power Plant, Dextra supplied its Geotec Double Corrosion Protection (DCP) Permanent Steel ground anchors to prevent soil movement in the perimeter of the excavation.

For this project, Dextra provided a “factory grouting” service, meaning that the anchors arrived at the site as pre-grouted 12-meters segments, ready to re-connect via couplers and to install.

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The Viaducto del Manglar project is a 5.3 km bridge project spanning over the Ciénaga de la Virgen (swamp), north of the City of Cartagena, Colombia. The project aims to reduce traffic congestion when exiting the city in the Zona Norte (North Area).

For this project, Dextra supplied its Headed Bar systems, used into large prefabricated caissons, in order to reduce the reinforcement congestion. That application allow designers to lower the steel/concrete ratio in eleemnts. Headed Bars are also much easier to install, as they fit on straight bar that can be inserted in the case easily.

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Louvre Abu Dhabi museum opened its door on the 11th of November! For that landmark project in the UAE, Dextra supplied between 2013 and 2014 more than 110,000 Bartec connections , easing the reinforcement connection for raft and columns, and allowing the creation of temporary openings for the passage of men and equipment.

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Dextra has recently opened a new logistics center in Newport, UK. The facility will be used as Dextra’s spare parts inventory for the European market and offer a better overall experience to our customers.

Newport will also serve as a base for our European after-sales team which maintains all Dextra equipment at distributor yards and construction sites all over Europe.

Get in touch with Dextra team in the UK