SOCAR Tower is an office tower located on the way to the city center of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It is the tallest building in Azerbaijan and the entire Caucasus region. The building serves as the headquarters of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR).

The tower features 42 floors and reaches a height of 202 meters. Completed in 2016, it is now one of the most recognizable landmarks in Baku.

For this project, Dextra was involved in the concrete works between 2011 and 2014, supplying the Bartec rebar coupler solution for all rebar connections. The project was supported by Bartec bar-end preparation equipment sets, installed directly on-site and maintained by Dextra’s European after-sales team.

Dextra rebar couplers were supplied to contractor Tekfen for:

• Vertical bar-to-bar connections in columns.
• Horizontal rebar connections in slabs.
• Wall-to-beam connections, where the coupler was cast flush with the formwork in the first phase of concreting. After formwork removal, the connecting rebar was simply screwed into the Bartec coupler.

To enable splicing at locations where rebar had not been prepared with a thread, RepairGrip sleeves and hydraulic equipment were also supplied for precise applications. RepairGrip allows for the convenient splicing of rebar where the protruding length is insufficient for a safe overlap.

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