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Cartagena Viaducto Del Manglar

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Cartagena Viaducto Del Manglar

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

The viaduct, scheduled to open in 2018, is part of a longer highway project linking Cartagena with Barranquilla.

For this project in Colombia, Dextra has been supplying contractor Rizzani de Eccher with Rolltec® rebar couplers and Headed Bars. Rebar preparation operations have been carried out by Dextra’s distributor in Colombia.

Headed Bars were used in precast caissons, installed beneath the bridge girders, to reduce steel congestion in the heavily reinforced steel cages.

For more information about Dextra solutions in Colombia, please contact our regional Latin America office.

Copyright pictures: Consesion Costera

Mandovi River Cable Stayed Bridge

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Mandovi River Cable Stayed Bridge

The third bridge over the Mandovi River in Goa is an iconic structure that connects Panaji in Tiswadi Taluka and Porvorim in Bardez Taluka. Positioned between the two existing bridges, it was designed to ease traffic congestion along this route. The bridge was officially inaugurated on January 27, 2019.

As one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in India, the four-lane, 21m-wide, 620m-long continuous span Mandovi River Cable-Stayed Bridge adds architectural beauty to Panaji. Standing 70m above sea level, its central concrete pylons are spaced at 150m and are supported by 88 cables arranged in a single-plane harp-type configuration.

Dextra supplied 1,170 sets of fully-threaded post-tensioning bar systems in diameters of 25, 32, 40, 50, and 75mm, with a grade of 830/1030, for various applications, including:

  • Hanger bars
  • Vertical prestressing
  • Horizontal prestressing bars
  • Lifting bars
  • Anchoring the pier head segment to the pier cap
  • Anchoring the front support to the pier cap
  • Anchoring the front cantilever support to the pier cap
  • Anchoring the middle, rear, and auxiliary supports

New Champlain Bridge

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New Champlain Bridge

The New Champlain Bridge is a 3 km-long bridge spanning the Saint Lawrence River at the southeastern entrance of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As one of the busiest bridges in Canada, it plays a crucial economic role for the city, serving as a key route to the United States, located 60 km south.

 

Replacing the Older Champlain Bridge

The New Champlain Bridge is replacing the existing Champlain Bridge, which was commissioned in June 1962. The older structure began showing signs of corrosion in 1994. After several temporary safety measures were implemented to keep the bridge operational, a replacement project was initiated in 2007. For a time, both bridges will stand side by side until the older structure is fully dismantled, with most of its materials planned for recycling.

 

A Focus on Corrosion Resistance

The New Champlain Bridge is designed to last at least 125 years and accommodate 50 million vehicle crossings per year. Given the corrosive environment caused by frequent road de-icing, corrosion resistance was a top priority. Duplex stainless steel rebar was installed in critical areas to enhance durability.

For this project, Dextra recommended using Duplex Stainless Steel Rolltec couplers and anchors. This specialized version of our Rolltec® system replaces standard couplers and anchors with an improved duplex steel alternative, offering superior corrosion resistance.

The Rolltec® solution is well-suited to the Canadian market and is approved by the Quebec Ministry of Transport. With a single-operator threading machine and 30-second threading cycles, it provides high productivity, making it ideal for high-labor-cost markets like Canada.

More than 10,000 Stainless Rolltec® couplers were supplied for this project, primarily for bridge spans. These couplers were used to splice large-diameter reinforcement bars, ranging from 35M (#11) to 55M (#18)—the largest size available in our Rolltec® range.

Additionally, about 10,000 Rolltec® stainless steel end anchors were delivered for sizes up to 55M (#18). Rolltec® Headed Bars use the same threading system as the couplers, simplifying production and installation.

Mumbai Trans Harbour Link

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Mumbai Trans Harbour Link

The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) is a 22 km-long road bridge in India, connecting the Mumbai Metropolitan Region with its satellite city, Navi Mumbai.

Also known as the Sewri-Nhava Sheva Trans Harbour Link, the bridge begins in Sewri, South Mumbai, crosses the Thane Creek via a 16.5 km-long bridge, and terminates in Chirle village, near Nhava Sheva.

This colossal project features a 6-lane highway, 27 meters wide, along with two emergency exit lanes. Designed to accommodate approximately 70,000 vehicles per day, the bridge is expected to significantly reduce the notorious traffic congestion in the Greater Mumbai area.

Originally envisioned more than 35 years ago, actual construction only began in 2018. Once completed, it will be India’s longest sea bridge.

 

Dextra’s Contribution

Dextra played a key role in this project by supplying over 30,000 Sonitec sonic tubes. These tubes facilitate Cross Sonic Logging (CSL) testing, a method used to assess the structural integrity and homogeneity of concrete within barrette piles.

With a conveniently enlarged bell-mouth design, Sonitec tubes enable the seamless connection of two tubes, making installation quick and efficient within reinforcement cages.

 

Valenciennes Bowstring

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Valenciennes Bowstring

The Valenciennes Bowstring is a 2-kilometer-long bridge construction project that will connect the Saint-Saulve roundabout with the Bruay-sur-l’Escaut roundabout (North). It features a 76-meter-long bowstring bridge, a double-girder engineering structure, a pedestrian footbridge, and a wildlife passage.

Dextra, in collaboration with its local partner, Freyssinet, supplied a tension rod system as a hanger for the bowstring arch bridge on the bypass, ensuring the structure’s stability.

The tension rod system is renowned not only for its high performance but also for its customizable parameters, including design load, surface finish, and corrosion resistance, to meet all technical and aesthetic project requirements.

 

Pelješac Bridge

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Pelješac Bridge

The Pelješac Bridge construction aimed to connect the mainland to the Pelješac Peninsula, eliminating the need for ferry services and significantly reducing travel time between these regions. Dextra’s Fortec couplers played a pivotal role in connecting the pile reinforcement cages, ensuring the bridge’s structural stability.

A total of 85,000 Fortec couplers, in sizes ranging from 16-50 mm, and in Types A, B, and C, were used in the construction of the Pelješac Bridge. These couplers securely connected the pile reinforcement cages, ensuring the long-term stability and safety of this critical infrastructure.

Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX), colossal bridge in the Philippines

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Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX), a colossal bridge in the Philippines

Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway is one of the biggest infrastructure projects being undertaken in the Philippines. The project features a combination of a causeway, a gigantic cable-stayed bridge that will cross the navigable zone of the Cebu Strait, two viaducts, and four low-height bridges, as well as roadways and pedestrian walkways. The CCLEX Project aims to provide better transport facilities while reducing traffic congestion in the region, as well as to improve connectivity within Cebu City. It is also intended to support Cordova’s economic growth, as the expressway will position the city as the gateway for island tourism. Also known as the Third Mandaue–Mactan Bridge, the official groundbreaking of the toll bridge was in 2017, with the completion being scheduled for 2022.

Cable-stayed bridge to connect Cebu and Mactan Island

After its completion, the Cebu-Cordova Expressway will link the Cebu mainland and Mactan Island through Cordova town. The 8.5 km-long toll bridge will feature two lanes that will serve up to 40,000 vehicles a day. The main bridge will be built with a 400-meter cable-stayed main span, with 60-meter navigation clearance, allowing ships to easily navigate through the expressway. The main bridge of the expressway will connect the Guadalupe River to Shell Island in Cordova, while its colossal viaducts will link it to the causeway and road networks to Mactan.

Dextra Bartec, reinforcing solutions for the construction of the Cebu-Cordova Bridge

The design and the construction of this megaproject are undertaken by the Cebu Link Joint Venture (CLJV). The CLJV is a joint-venture partnership between the Spain-based Acciona Construccion S.A. and the Philippines-based First Balfour Inc. and D.M. Consunji Inc. For the reinforcement of the colossal expressway’s foundations, the contractor has chosen Dextra’s well-known rebar splicing solution Bartec. More than 35,000 units of Standard, Bridging, and Transition splices of steel grade 75, both in diameters 40 and 50, have been applied to the foundations’ piling cages as of July 2018. Moreover, to provide better end anchorages in congested areas, the CLJV opted for Dextra Bartec headed bars, which are also known as end anchors. Bartec end anchors are a convenient alternative to hooked bars, traditionally used for anchoring. For more information about rebar coupler availability in the Philippines, please contact our Bangkok office.

West Gate Tunnel

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West Gate Tunnel

The West Gate Tunnel Project will deliver a vital alternative to the West Gate Bridge, providing a much needed second river crossing, quicker and safer journeys, and remove thousands of trucks from residential streets.

The project will link the West Gate Freeway at Yarraville to the Port of Melbourne and CityLink at the Docklands via twin tunnels beneath Yarraville and an elevated Footscray Road.

The elevated road includes 300 piles of variable height. The piles have been precast in multiple segments, close to the site. Vertical post-tensioning bars assembly together all the segments of each pile.

This construction method of piles is more and more common but requires an impeccable preparation, both in terms of method statement and products definition. Each detail is fundamental for the success of the installation.

Dextra supplied Freyssinet with more than 1,000 tons of Freyssibar+ systems, grade 930/1080 MPa, with nominal diameters of 72mm and 55mm, and 7,500 anchorages for vertical permanent application.

With a close cooperation between DEXTRA, Freyssinet back-office (Technical Department and Freyssinet products company) and the job site staff (Freyssinet Major Project and Freyssinet Australia), the post-tensioning system has been perfectly adapted to the needs of the project.

The bar diameters, steel grade and the design of the anchorages have been validated through qualification tests according to Australian Standards, demonstrating the performance of the system.

This bar system can be used for post tensioning, prestressed ground anchors and any application involving temporary or permanent tie-rods, lifting, suspension, prestressed splices, etc.

Major project construction started in January 2018.

Bar-Boljare highway – Four viaducts

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Bar-Boljare highway – Four viaducts

The Bar-Boljare Highway Project is a key infrastructure project led by the Ministry of Transportation and Maritime Affairs of Montenegro. It aims at improving the connections within the country and also between Montenegro and the rest of Europe to boost the country’s economy and tourism.

The project, built by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), embodies a new successful example of the cooperation between China and Eastern Europe. The new 2×2-way highway spans over 40 km. It is built in challenging terrains and yet satisfies both EU & Montenegro standards of road infrastructure. Its schedule is ambitious too: both roads and viaducts should be built in under 4 years. For the Bar-Boljare Highway Project, Dextra supplied its Bartec rebar coupler solution, used for the splicing of rebar in the piles of the four viaducts. Dextra Bartec splicing solution was chosen on that project for its compliance with ISO 15835 S2, which defines rebar couplers and reinforcements to be resistant to violent earthquake conditions. A total of 230,000 Bartec rebar couplers have been supplied to CRBC.

Doha Link (Jaber Causeway)

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Doha Link (Jaber Causeway)

 
Doha Link is a marine bridge project currently being built west of Kuwait City. It will ultimately be connected to the Main Causeway Across Kuwait Bay, another sea link project north of Kuwait City, which will make the Jaber Causeway sea link, one of the largest civil engineering projects ever built in the Middle East. The Doha Link stretches west of Kuwait City. It will ultimately solve traffic congestion and offer a direct itinerary thanks to a 7.7 km bridge structure built on shallow waters across the Kuwait Bay.  

Rebar splicing solution

Dextra has been involved in the early stage of the construction project to provide a technical solution for the splicing of the very large rebar cages making the onshore and offshore foundation piles. Rolltec® couplers for large diameter rebar (32, 36, and 40mm) were used for the connection of cages and piers. Two grades of rebar are used across the project: ASTM Grade 60 and Grade 80. Rolltec is compatible by design with the higher ASTM Grade 80; the same couplers may be used on all applications, simplifying stock keeping. In addition, smaller diameter couplers for rebar 12mm and 16mm were used for the superstructure and the footing of light poles. One of the main advantages of Rolltec for remote projects is its very light machine setup. Rolltec is supported by a single one-man machine, offering a high level of productivity. Because the equipment is relatively small and the rebar preparation efforts were taking place simultaneously on both sides of the sea link construction, Dextra dispatched up to 4 machines on each side of the project to support the piling efforts.  

Sonitec tube solution

With large piles of 2.5m diameter and 60m depth on average, it was compulsory for GS E&C to conduct sonic logging tests to examine the integrity of concrete piles, requiring the installation of 8 tubes in each cage. To achieve very long tube length and optimize cage preparation output, Dextra Sonitec was the preferred choice of the contractor. Thanks to its lightweight and unique Push-Fit® connection feature. Sonitec provides enough flexibility during the cage construction, lifting, and assembly of the cage and removes the need for additional time-consuming welding operations.