2005 - Putzmeister

Large construction site
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Numerous concrete pumps
at Germany's largest
construction site
Since September 2004, the new Stuttgart
Trade Fair Centre has been under construction
at spellbinding speed, south of
the regional capital of Baden-Württemberg
between the A8 motorway, the B 27 main
road and the airport. Several concrete
pump service providers use their machines
here almost every day. In order to ensure
that concrete placement proceeds as
smoothly as possible, the use of the many
concrete pumps is scheduled centrally.
motorway with direct access roads and
Stuttgart International Airport, which is
within sight of the complex.
The contract for construction of the trade
fair halls, the congress centre and the
underground car park was awarded to the
Rohbau Landesmesse consortium, consisting
of MAX BÖGL and LEONHARD
WEISS. The two partners have also joined
forces to create a civil engineering consortium,
which will construct two bypass tunnels
– one near the airport and one on the
north side of the A8 – as well as a bridge.
The parking decks of the new Stuttgart
Trade Fair Centre stretch across the A8
motorway – here is a model view
(Fig.: Projektgesellschaft Neue Messe)
By its opening in spring 2007, seven standard
halls with an exhibition area of
10,000 m 2 each, a 25,000 m 2 tall building
(headroom of 14 to 24 m), an international
congress centre and a generously proportioned
convention centre will be constructed
here on a total area of 83 hectares.
Optimal transport connections will be
ensured by a planned ICE long distance
and regional train station, an underground
car park beneath the convention centre, the
new multi-storey car park over the A8
Another consortium consisting of WAYSS
& FREYTAG INGENIEURBAU,
BARESEL and DONGES STAHLBAU,
has been awarded the contract for completion
of the new multi-storey car park,
which, at a length of 440 m, spans across
the A8 motorway and a planned new
stretch of ICE track. The total investment
for the new Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre is
estimated at EUR 806 million. The project
is currently considered to be Germany's
biggest construction site.
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A Putzmeister M 52-5 large boom pump during concreting of the foundations
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Photo: AOP aerial photo
Until recently, the fields on which the new trade fair premises are now being constructed,
were intensively farmed for pointed cabbage – a regional speciality
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