Penny’s Bay and Kai Tak Community Isolation Facility (CIF) are quarantine units managed by the Hong Kong government’s Security Bureau (SB)’s anti-epidemic task force in response to an increase in COVID-19 patients in 2022.

The quarantine units are a four-story building made of containers with Fortec+ couplers for each module connection. They will be dismantled when the COVID-19 situation improves.

Fortec+ is a parallel threaded mechanical splicing system that comes with a set of four rebar preparation machines: cutting, cold forging, threading, and thread quality testing.

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.

With a total height of 829.8 m and a roof height of 828 m, the Burj Khalifa is currently the tallest building in the World, and it has held this record since its topping out in 2009.

The building was originally named Burj Dubai but was renamed in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

This iconic skyscraper immediately became the symbol of the government of Dubai’s plan to transform the city into a touristic hub and to gain international recognition.

The tower’s structural system consists of reinforced concrete construction from foundation to Level 156; above Level 156 is predominantly a spire, consisting of a structural steel braced frame system. It used 330,000 m3 of concrete and 55,000 tons of steel rebar.

The foundation system is a piled raft: a 3.7 m thick raft supported by 1.5 m diameter bored piles with a diameter of 1.5 m each, extending 50 m below the raft base.

Numerous pile load tests were carried out on the piles of the tower. Crosshole Sonic logging (CSL) testing was also carried out for integrity testing of concrete foundation on a number of works piles, using 20km of Dextra Sonitec tubes.

Sonitec is a simple, fast, and reliable tube solution used for the CSL testing. The system is compliant with ASTM D6760, the standard method for integrity testing by ultrasonic cross-hole testing.

Moreover, more than 100,000 Bartec couplers were supplied for piled-raft extension and reinforcement.