VSL-Intrafor News 2003 N°1

EARTH WALLS IN HONG KONG
Castle Peak Road Improvement.
VSL Hong Kong was awarded
Phases 1 and 2 to upgrade a
winding, two-lane highway along
the coast. When the project was
originally announced early in
2002, it consisted mainly of
bridges to span the wide gaps
below the road. VSL worked with
the main contractors to develop
an alternative scheme in which
the bridges would be replaced by
reinforced earth walls wherever
this was possible.
Sakata Mirai Bridge. A major Japanese
precasting company, Maeta, awarded
Taisei and VSL Japan the design and
construction of the Sakata Mirai
Footbridge. Compared to the Ductal ®
footbridge that VSL built in Korea, which
has a single arch span, the Sakata Mirai
Footbridge is a single, 51-m-long span
with a hollow beam. Prefabricated and
Ductal ® -FM elements were assembled
by external prestressing. This is the
first application of the UHP concrete
Ductal ® in Japan. Because of its special
features and added value, this new
material represents a major
technological leap forward, allowing
attractive structures and buildings
to be constructed.
VSoL ® solutions prooved to be an
efficient diversification activity
for VSL-Intrafor in Hong Kong in
the last few years.
DUCTAL ® IN JAPAN
FORMWORK IN
THE PHILIPPINES
C5/Ortigas Avenue Extension
Interchange in Metro Manil.
For a 696-m long flyover over
the existing Ortigas flyover,
VSL Philippines, Inc. is
precasting and supplying
112 AASHTO precast girders
and is using the VSL launching
truss. VSL introduced the
main contractor to pre-cast
planks as a composite deck
slab formwork, offering an
alternative to the conventional
forming, and received the
contract: the pre-casting and
installation of 3,864 PC planks
including the left turn section
of the interchange.
Installation is to be completed
end of June 2003.
On this project, VSL also won its
first contract in the Philippines
for 1,150 m 2 of MSE wall.
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