The Cape Town Stadium, also known as the new Green Point Stadium, is a football and multipurpose sport venue located in Cape Town, South Africa. The stadium was built to replace the older Green Point Stadium, which had a capacity of 18,000 seats, and offer a larger arena with a capacity of 55,000 seats in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup hosted by South Africa. The older arena was demolished in 2007, followed by the construction of the new venue which was completed in time in December 2009, a few months before the first world cup match.

For this large stadium project, Dextra supplied its Bartec rebar coupler solution, which is the main rebar coupler solution offered by Dextra in South Africa. Dextra’s offer included 70,000 high-performance rebar couplers, highly productive rebar preparation equipment, as well as a training/aftersales service during all the construction phase in order to guarantee production levels and schedule.

Bartec couplers were used to splice bars in the foundations and columns of the stadium, as vertical connectors.

For more information about rebar coupler availability in South Africa, please consult our Paris office

The Bangkok Arena is a multisport indoor arena located in the Nong Chok district East of Bangkok. The arena was commissioned to host futsal tournaments, an indoor version of football. Nowadays the arena also hosts volleyball and basketball event as well as concerts. The arena can sit up to 12,000 people.

For this project, Dextra engineered and supplied in 2012 the Tension Bars suspending the roof of the building.

The long architectural bar systems are anchored onto concrete pylons and act as suspenders to hold the building roofing’s structrure.

For this project Tension Bars were supplied in Grade 700, the highest in our range. Highest grade allow a better performance/steel ratio and therefore make it possible to pick smaller diameter. This results in a thinner structure and overall better aesthetics. Moreover, diameter bars and lighter elements also ease handling and installation operations at site.

Each segment of bar is spliced to the next one by the use of coupler (no length adjustment) or turnbuckle (length adjustment and tensioning possible).

Connection to the concrete structure is performed thanks to fork ends set up onto steel gusset plates.

In total, those are more than 129 tons of Tension Bars which are anchoring the roof structure, with tendons exceeding 30 meters.

Ras Abu Aboud Stadium is an under-construction football stadium in Doha, Qatar, with a capacity of 40,000 spectators.

This project has been specifically designed to accommodate the FIFA World Cup tournament in 2022: the stadium will have a modular design, using recycled shipping containers, removable seats and other modular building blocks that will be entirely dismantled and repurposed after the event.

Dextra supplied more than 600 sets of carbon steel tension rods for the cross-bracing of the roofing and bowl structures, as well as staircase, catwalk and ramps. The tension rods are ranging from bar thread size M20 (dia. 19 mm) to M72 (dia. 70 mm).

Upon its expected completion in 2020, the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium will set a new standard in sustainable construction design.

The National Stadium of Khaosiung is a large open air stadium located in the Zuoying district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It was formerly known as the World Games Stadium or Takao Stadium. This is a multi-purpose stadium and currently the largest sport facility of Taiwan in term of capacity: 55,000 seats.

The arena was built in 2007 in anticipation of the 2009 World Games. Its main purpose now is to host football / soccer events, although its particular non circular shape also make it suitable venue to host baseball events.

For this project, Dextra supplied carbon steel Tension Bars used as cross-bracing incorporated into the secondary trusses of this complex steel structure, revealing the “nest-shaped” architecture of the stadium.

The Brasilia Stadium, also called Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha or National Stadium of Brasilia, is a football and multipurpose arena which was rebuilt between 2010 and 2013 in preparation of the 2014 FIFA Worldcup in Brazil.

The 2013 version of the stadium can sit up to 72,000 people, making it the second largest stadium in Brasil in capacity.

For this project, Dextra Do Brasil delivered to contractor Grupovia & Andrade Gutierrez its Rolltec rebar coupler solution as well as Rolltec Headed Bars.

Rolltec is the most popular rebar slicing solution in Brazil, providing a competitive alternative to lap splices and more importantly allowing advanced applications simplifying project management and operations.

For the called Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, rebar couplers were used as a way to connect rebar cages which have been previously prefabricated on the ground.

Rolltec allow a swift rebar cage reconnection by simply pulling the coupler by hand from the top cage to the bottom cage. In total, more than 57,000 Rolltec couplers were used the columns of the stadium.

6,000 Rolltec Headed Bars were also used on this project as a replacement to hook bars in congested parts of the reinforcement. Rolltec Headed Bars use the same standard thread profile as coupler, simplifying rebar production.

The Rollltec solution was supported by a Rolltec machine installed at the stadium construction site. The commissioning and maintenance of the machine was done by Dextra do Brasil local engineers, ensuring the training of operators and guaranteeing high productivity of the equipment.

The São Paulo Arena Corinthians is a football and multipurpose stadium which was built between 2011 and 2013 in preparation of the 2014 FIFA Worldcup in Brazil.

The stadium has a capacity of 49,000 people, making it the fifth largest stadium in Brazil in term of capacity.

For the construction of the stadium, 80% of the structural elements were made thanks to precast techniques, of which 40% were produced directly on the precast plant set up on site.

For this project, Dextra Do Brasil delivered to contractor Odebrecht, main contractor on this project, its Rolltec rebar coupler solution.

On the São Paulo Arena Corinthians project, Rolltec rebar couplers were used inside the precast elements to provide connections between slabs, beams and columns.

To allow the use of a coupler in the precast element, a rebar ended with a A-type thread is cast into the precast element, with ist thread being protected by a pocket former.

Once set up at its final location, the pocket former is removed and the space around the thread allows to conveniently screw a Rolltec coupler from the opposing rebar (B-type thread). More than 45,000 Rolltec couplers were used for the rebar connections on the Arena Corinthians. The coupler solution was supported by a Rolltec rebar preparation equipment, installed on site, and Dextra team of engineered in charge of training operators and rolling out preventive maintenance to ensure the equipment was used as its maximum capacity.

The Al Haffar Abu Dhabi Training Facility is a project by the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Interior. Dextra has been involved on the construction of the tribune facing a police shooting training area. The project is lead by contractor Express Facility Management.

For the construction of the seating area, Dextra supplied its Groutec precast connection solution to local precaster Techno Cast Precast to anchor the footing of large precast “L-shaped” cantilever elements, which ultimately will span over the tribunes.

At the bottom of each pile, 18 Groutec sleeves were installed, fitting on Ø32mm rebar (Bartec threaded rebar is widely available in the UAE through Dextra network of distributors).

For more information about Dextra precast solutions available in the United Arab Emirates, please contact our Dubai office.