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Successful management trio: (l to r) Godehard
Drees, Christian Walter, Tilo Quink
Dear readers,
The European Union has grown greatly in size as a result of its eastward enlargement. The iron curtain
has thus finally been consigned to history, enabling the peoples of Europe to progress together into the
future. The new markets in the east represent a whole host of opportunities for industry and thus also for
us, ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik. Opportunities which we are already actively exploiting. For example,
by cooperation with our Polish partner ThyssenKrupp Energostal, which is the subject of one of our
reports in this edition of our customer magazine.
It goes without saying that we are also well-positioned in the market as regards our southern and
western European neighbours: our steel sheet piles are not only providing the solid foundation for the
expansion of the successful Vienna Airport, they are also in demand for the extension of the French
motorway network between Le Mans and Tours.
Although we are keeping a close eye on Europe, we are, of course, remaining as committed as ever to
our presence in the German market: whatever form this may take, whether involving the replacement of
the Rhine quay in the port of Duisburg, the construction of a dock for tankers in Emmerich on the Rhine
or the redevelopment of an oil-cracking facility in Stralsund, we of ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik make
use of our experience, our commitment and our powers of innovation so that we are a reliable partner
for our customers. In Germany. For our neighbours in Europe. And everywhere that we are in demand
for our unique expertise.
We would now like to use the following pages to tell you something about all these projects in words
and in pictures.
We hope you enjoy reading about them!
Godehard Drees Christian Walter Tilo Quink

Contents
Vienna Airport development
600 tonnes of steel sheet piles
from ThyssenKrupp are the foundation
for success
That’s why it’s so beautiful
along the Rhine!
226 metre long new embankment
consolidation in the port of Duisburg
Powerful world champion
First construction site use of the MS-62 HV
Better save than sorry
New slide rail demonstrates its strengths
Under lock and key
Oil-cracking facility redeveloped in
the Stralsund industrial park
Tour de France
A 28 autoroute widened between Tours
and Le Mans
The future will have a new name: CT4
Bremerhaven: new container terminal
for Euro 498 million
Current events
News from ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
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Vienna Airport development
600 tonnes of steel sheet piles from ThyssenKrupp are the foundation for success
Vienna Airport (Flughafen Wien AG) has 2,600
employees and is one of the most important stock
market-quoted companies in the country. Its size
makes the airport also responsible for the economic
development of the region. And the curve is rising
rapidly in an upward direction: Vienna Airport is
growing continuously, creating a greater percentage
of workplaces than the remainder of the
Austrian economy as well as being the location for
new companies.
More than 600 tonnes of steel sheet piles from
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik have been positioned
in the Viennese earth to make the foundations
for this location. This is because without
effectively consolidating the three linked construction
site areas by means of sheet piles, it
would hardly have been possible to meet one of
the decisive requirements, namely that of connecting
as quickly as possible the different sections
of the construction site in their various construction
phases.
Consideration for the environment
The consolidation of an open cut for a pedestrian
access level is being carried out, complete with
ThyssenKrupp sheet piles. In Vienna, solely
LARSSEN sections in the following quantities have
been used: 23 twelve-metre, 50 thirteen-metre
and 141 fifteen-metre LARSSEN 607 as well as
189 twelve-metre LARSSEN 606 and, finally, 50
ten-metre LARSSEN 605. This means that this
Takeoff: starting holidays from Vienna Airport.
construction work has involved the use of 453
LARSSEN sections at Vienna Airport, having an
exact total weight of 603.6 tonnes.
And the Viennese have considerable additional
scope for the further expansion for their airport:
this is because the rapid development to date has
brought with it the need to extend capacities to
meet demand, a matter of particular economic
significance. The environment and consideration
for neighbours are top priorities as is the need to
match the improvement in the transport links with
the airport to current and future demand. This is a
challenge which Vienna Airport has always overcome
in the past: it has been able at all times to
provide the necessary capacity for growing air
traffic. The extensions to the facilities and terminals
in the 1960s and 1970s were carried out at
the start of the boom in air traffic. The developments
in the 1980s and 1990s were completed at
a time when there was an increase in traffic with
Underground: steel sheet piles from ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik ...
eastern Europe and in transfer traffic. Double-digit
growth rates over the last few months and the
high growth forecast for the next few years are the
basis for the increasing importance of Vienna Airport
as the major linking airport for central Europe.
So as to handle these expectations of future growth,
there must be available perfect infrastructure and
appropriately expanded capacities.
Vienna Airport is being developed and expanded
with a total investment of Euro 722 million. The

...are indispensable for open cut consolidation. Car park: passengers do not have to walk far.
first stage of the “SkyLink” project involves the
investment of Euro 280 million. It has already
been possible to initiate a number of projects.
These include the Officepark, an office building
having an overall area of 26,000 square metres,
and the 109 metre high air control tower as a new
airport landmark which can be seen for miles
around. In addition, the reconstruction of the
railway station and the settlement of the “Cargo
North” are proceeding apace. Tasks which will
occupy the construction companies at Vienna Airport
for years, if not decades to come.
Arge Klestil-Pfeil-Schmidt-Reuter is involved in the
overall planning for much of this current work,
while, the company carrying out the construction
work is Steiner Bau GmbH of Heiligeneich. Hörlesberger
Grundbau of Amstetten is taking care of
open cut consolidation work. Currently, work
specifically involves the underground pedestrian
access level and the link to the Office Park. The
pedestrian access level is being built as an in-site
concrete structure using the open method of construction.
Base plate and walls are being carried
out as “body-in-white” in service requirement category
A 1 with a water pressure of 0 to 1.0 metre
and a crack width of w = 2.0 millimetres. Special
media collectors are being constructed so that,
although these projects are being carried out in
advance of the actual airport, they will retain all
the necessary options for future expansion. Vienna
Data and facts
Client: Flughafen Wien AG
Construction companies: Steiner Bau GmbH,
Heiligeneich,Hörlesberger Grundbau, Amstetten
Planning: Arge Klestil, Pfeil-Schmidt-Reuter
Sheet pile wall sections: HOESCH sheet piles
of the type LARSSEN 605, 606, 607 in lengths
of 10 to 15 metres, steel quality S355 GP,
approx. 600 tonnes
Positioning equipment: driving work using ABI
TM 16/20 leader unit with MRZV 925 V vibrator
Duration of the building project: Civil engineering
works November 2003 – June 2004
Additional information
Claus Biber, Wien, Phone:+43(0)1 804 2265,
Fax:+43(0)1804 2774,Mobile:+43(0) 676 7318300,
E-Mail: claus@biber.officemanager.at
Airport is thus thinking well ahead into the future.
And in ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik, it can rely
on an effective partner for further expansion. �
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That’s why it’s so beautiful along the Rhine!
226 metre long new embankment consolidation in the port of Duisburg
The port of Duisburg, Europe's second-largest
inland port, is booming. In the last business year,
the port's operator, the duisport Group, was able
to increase sales by 14 percent to just under Euro
42 million. The net profit before tax rose by 53
percent to Euro 2.3 million. The volume of traffic
increased to 39.4 million tonnes of goods (up six
percent) in 2003. The board of management of
Duisburger Hafen AG is particularly pleased at
being able to report the increase in container handling,
which rose by 37 percent to 4.2 million
tonnes.
New sheet pile
However, wide-ranging refurbishing work is necessary
in the harbour area for the port to continue to
develop positively. The embankment consolidation
on the North Rhine quay in Duisburg-Hochfeld is
a left-over from the fifties of the last century and,
over the course of time, had become in need of
repair. Brückner Grundbau GmbH of Essen was
contracted with the replacement of the embankment
consolidation by Duisburger Hafen AG last year.
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik supplied approx.
700 tonnes of sheet piles for the construction
project.
The 226 metre long embankment consolidation on
the North Rhine quay is used as a place of transhipment
by the transport company Harpen. Suffering
from heavy use, the edge of the embankment had
become in need of refurbishment. “A new sheet pile
wall with integrated landing piles had to be fitted
in front of the already existing corrugated sheet
pile,” says Frank Tapken of ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik,
describing the task. The new sheet pile
wall was equipped with vertical ladders and pockettype
bollards.
To keep the restrictions on work to a minimum for
the transportation company Harpen, the planners
decided to carry out the refurbishment of the
embankment consolidation in two constructional
phases. The 700 tonnes of sheet piles were delivered
by ship to Duisburg in November 2003.
Since the sheet piles had to be positioned very
deep, while the ground was very compact and the
old coal bunkers no longer gave the impression
of being very secure, the construction experts
decided not to position the sheet piles using the
vibration method. An elevated dredger was used
to drive the sheet piles by a hydraulic hammer.
Avoiding incidents
While construction was under way, the planners
took account of unfavourable circumstances such
as dredging free the alignment of the pile drivers
in front of the old corrugated sheet pile wall.
Because of this, it was necessary over and over
again to make provisional measurements as well
as accompanying deformation measurements
together with evaluations. So as to avoid unwanted
incidents, comprehensive vibration measurements
were made during the pile-driving work. HOESCH
Spundwand und Profil GmbH developed a new
sheet pile, the HOESCH 3600 n, for the embank-
Water-tight: sheet piles on the Rhine quay
in Duisburg. 700 tonnes of sheet piles were used to redevelop the Rh

Data and facts
Contractor:
duisport, Duisburger Hafen AG, Duisburg
Construction company:
Brückner Grundbau GmbH, Essen
Planning:
Ingenieurbüro MMS, Ingenieurgesellschaft für
Baustatik mbH, Prof. Dr. Ing. Steinhoff,
Wuppertal and ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
Testing:
MVG, Ingenieurbüro für Bauwesen, Mönchengladbach
Prof. Dr. Ing. von Grabe
Additional Information
Frank Tapken, Essen office,
Phone: (0208) 4958640,
Mobile: (0172) 268 6600,
E-Mail: frank.tapken@thyssenkrupp.com
ment wall, which was completed this spring. It is
the most economically efficient Z-profile worldwide
and has a 10% advantage in its section modulusto-weight
ratio. This construction work involved
double piles in S 430 GP steel quality, being used
in lengths of 15.50 and 16.50 metres. LV 607 docking
dolphins with lengths of 22.60 metres were
additionally integrated into the main wall. �
e Rhine quay in Duisburg. Heavy pile-driving equipment was used for positioning the sheet piles.
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Powerful world champion
First usage of MS-62 HV at a job-site
Emmerich? Emmerich? The name rings a bell?
Yes: Lothar “Emma” Emmerich, legendary Borussia
Dortmund forward, who sadly died in August
last year. His most famous saying: Give me the
cherry. His greatest success: world vice-champion
in 1966. But Emmerich? The name rings another
bell? Yes: Emmerich, the friendly town on the Rhine,
just on the Dutch frontier. And ThyssenKrupp GfT
Bautechnik makes the link between world vicechampion
Emmerich and the town Emmerich.
And it involves a real world champion, the world's
biggest variable vibrator, MS-62 HV, which is now
being used in the construction of a dock for tankers
in Emmerich.
MS-A 1000 V power unit
The vibrator did good work when it came to driving
docking dolphins into the ground for the principal
UNIQEMA. Construction was in the hands of the
OHF company of Au am Rhein. And as it was said
after the successful deployment, the MS-62 HV
was able to carry such conviction with OHF that
serious consideration is being given to the purchase
of a giant of this kind. The work of persuasion
was handled by the MS-62 HV when it expertly
drove into the ground the LARSSEN 605 dolphins
which had been manufactured from HOESCH steel
sheet piles and which have the model designation
LV 605, supplied by ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik.
The world champion was driven by the Müller MS-
A 1000V power-pack, which develops an output of
1,000 kW. The Sennebogen S 660 cable dredger,
which was standing on a heavy barge on the Rhine
for this job and which was able to guide the vibrator
from a free-standing position, was used as the
carrier vehicle.
The vibrator's infinitely adjustable moment of force,
which ensured an ideal match to the geology by
setting frequency and amplitude during the operation,
proved to be decisive in this difficult deployment
on water and in the sensitive embankment
area. Secured in this way, the MS-62 HV was able
to make full use of its power, driving the 21.3
metre long dolphins, each weighing about eleven
tonnes, taking from 12 to 15 minutes for each
dolphin to reach a depth of 9.80 metres into the
riverbed.
The new dock for tankers was built at a particularly
favourable place in terms of transportation,
since Emmerich has an outstanding location. The
town of 30,000 inhabitants on the Rhine is an
important junction of national and international
significance. This is where the Rhine, the most
important European waterway, meets the main
section of the “Ruhr region (Germany) - Randstad
(Netherlands)” railway and the “Ruhr region -
Amsterdam/Rotterdam” motorway route. The
Emmerich - Kleve Rhine bridge connects the A 3
motorway and the B 8 trunk road on the eastern
bank of the Rhine with the A 57 motorway and the
B 9 and B 57 trunk roads on the western bank of
the Rhine as well as with Achterhoek in the Netherlands.
The town's Rhine port, which is equipped
with high-performance container transhipment
facilities, offers outstanding links to the European
Picturesque setting: the MS-62 HV used floating on the Rhine.
waterway network. In addition, the town of Emmerich
on the Rhine has close and rapid links with
German and Dutch conurbations and economic
centres as a result of its links with international rail
traffic and its two junctions with the A 3 motorway
(a third is at the planning stage). The elimination
of the internal European frontiers has still further
increased the importance of Emmerich as an important
junction and point of connection between Germany
and the Netherlands. The MS-62 HV team
was naturally under heavy pressure in the course
of its work and so, unfortunately, had little time
left to take a look at the charming landscape. But
after the work has been done, it should also be
possible to take walks and watch ships from the
Rhine promenade, enjoy good food and drink, visit
the Rhine museum, walk across the longest suspension
bridge in Germany, while water sports, riding,
golf and cycling, of course, are all possible in Emmerich.
Oh yes, you can also play football here too…�
Data and facts
Client: UNIQEMA, Emmerich
Construction company: OHF, Au am Rhein
Constructor: Rammed materials/procedure:
docking dolphins manufactured from HOESCH
steel sheet pile profiles of type LV 605, with
back blades, head piles and seven side bollards
for each dolphin
Positioning equipment: Müller MS-62 HF
vibrator with Müller MS-A 1000 V power-pack
Additional information
Volker Matthes,
ThyssenKrupp GfT Tiefbautechnik,
Phone: (06631) 781-131,
E-Mail: volker.matthes@thyssenkrupp.com,
www.thyssenkrupp-gft-tiefbautechnik.com

Better save than sorry
New slide rail demonstrates its strengths
The new double slide rail which was presented at
the bauma, the world's largest specialist construction
trade fair in Munich in April this year, is considered
to be a spectacular sheeting unit. And there
is good reason for this too, because the double
slide rail, which has been developed in particular
for replacing existing main sewers, proved to be
an outstanding sheeting element at the time of its
first deployment.
The double slide rail sheet was chosen for this
project in Cologne, since a gas line which ran in
the immediate vicinity meant that the sheeting had
to be carried out without vibrations. The open cut,
which has a reach length of 16 metres and a sheeting
depth of 5 metres as well as a cut width of
1.50 metres, is composed of coarse clays, fine
and medium sands. The contracting construction
company, Dr. Fink-Stauf of Much, praised this new,
secure and economic sheeting system. Special
reference was made here to the few necessary
braces in the open cut as well as the pipe laying,
enabling rapid progress to be made.
No misgivings
Other advantages are to be found in the free pipe
culvert height of max. 2.25 metres, approx. 4.2
metres horizontal brace intervals for lowering the
pipes, only one brace (Gi-PS) being needed for
supporting approx. 8 m² of sheeting and only 3
braces (Gi-PS) being needed for 6 metres of cut
depth and intervals of 4.2 metres. As work went
on in this scheme, there were no misgivings
regarding driver sheeting, enabling the proven
chamber panel sheeting system to be used. The
universal sheeting system has been marketed by
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik for decades as
have also the necessary trench sheeting sections
which is necessary for this sheeting method.
The profiles, which have the model designations
KD VI/6 and KD VI/8, are of our own manufacture
and manufactured in lengths of up to 8 metres.
Material tests and quality controls ensure the very
highest quality of steel and guarantee security,
reliability and ideal driving characteristics.
Particularly environmentally friendly
The strong frame system is applicable for most
soils and construction site conditions. It comprises
a series-manufactured sheeting panel and a profiled
chamber wall, which is screwed onto the sheeting
panel. A sheeting unit, which comprises two
chamber panels and four braces, is positioned in
the advance excavation of the cut. The trench
sheeting sections is placed in the chamber between
sheeting panel and chamber wall. The Müller MS-4
HFB vibrator, a product of our subsidiary company
ThyssenKrupp GfT Tiefbautechnik, dealt with the
positioning of the trench sheeting in the ground.
This excavator-mounted vibrator is connected to
the shovel arm of an excavator and is operated by
the on-board hydraulic system. It is particularly
environmentally friendly and has a high performance,
making it particularly suitable for this
use at a construction site. This is because high-
The new double slide rail in use at a construction site in Cologne.
frequency vibrators are indispensable at urban
construction sites in particular so as to avoid
impermissible effects of vibration on people and
on buildings. This was yet another opportunity
to demonstrate the special aspect of Thyssen-
Krupp GfT Bautechnik as a system provider with
an integrated range of sheet piles, machinery and
equipment as well as customer-oriented services.
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Data and facts
Client:
Bio-Campus Cologne, Cologne
Construction company:
Dr. Fink-Stauf, Much
Additional information
Michael Gronemeyer, Cologne office,
Phone: (02203) 96624-20,
Mobile: (0172) 217 4280,
E-Mail: miachel.gronemeyer@thyssenkrupp.com
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Under lock and key
Oil-cracking facility redeveloped in the Stralsund industrial park
A new industrial park is being developed nearby to the road to the Rügen embankment.
No matter whether it is a question of constructing
docks or roads, reconstructing embankments or
safeguarding waste sites, the HOESCH steel sheet
piles manufactured by ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
are used in a whole variety of ways. No wonder,
as the walls carry conviction thanks to their enormous
load-bearing capability and their long life.
The steel sheet piles are also used in the construction
of a new industrial park in the hanseatic city
of Stralsund. As early as 1999, two consolidating
walls were constructed on the site of the former
oil-cracking facility, marking the route for the construction
of the Stralsund bypass and the Rügen
access road. The contaminated earth was removed
at that time.
“In the course of the current building phase, an
approx. 140 metre long new sealing sheet pile wall
is being constructed around the grounds on one
section of the southern sheet pile wall for consolidating
the former tank farm site,” says Dr. Wolfgang
Kruse, specialist consultant at the Rostock
service point, explaining the current construction
work.
Since the old pile foundations in the heavily contaminated
grounds were not to be subject to waste
disposal, they had to be surrounded by sheet pile
walls. “Although it was not easy, we achieved it
by ideal interlocking,” Kruse explains.
The HOESCH sheet pile interlocks, which are provided
with the HOESCH sheet pile wall (DBP 44
27 561, EP 0 695 832) interlocking seal system,
create almost complete seals by compressing the
sheet pile interlocks, making them resistant toward
mineral oils as well as numerous acids and alkalis.
In Stralsund, HOESCH H 3600n +1.0 steel sheet
piles in S355GP quality were used for reasons of
economy. The lengths varied between 17 and 18
metres.
The sections were used as double piles in the northern
area of the sheet pile box section. H 1700
sections in S240GP quality were sufficient in the
southern area because of the higher marl horizon.
These sections were between six and nine metres
long. The respective section lengths were the
result of wide-ranging geotechnical investigations.
Economic Z-profile
By using the most economic H3600n Z-profile, the
constructor was able to save a total of 35 tonnes
of sheet piles in comparison with the tender, thereby
securing the delivery order.
A new industrial park for Stralsund is being developed
in the immediate vicinity of this construction
site at a location which is favourable for transportation.
Here too, confidence is again being shown
in the reliability of ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik.
The contractor and principal, TLG Immobilien
GmbH, required a comprehensive quality assurance
plan with monitoring quality management
also for the installation of the sheet piles. In addition,
the interlocking system was being monitored
in the ground, into which it could only be driven
with difficulty. The piles were positioned without
incident, and all interlocks resisted. The sheet
piles were positioned using a type S 35 drop ham-

235 tonnes HOESCH steel sheet piles H3600n were used in Stralsund.
mer (max. 30 kNm energy of impact) after they
had previously been erected using vibration equipment
(ABI-Mäkler TM 12/15). The centrifugal force
was not to be less than 900 kN, and the positioning
time of 20 seconds per metre, which is specified
for the HOESCH sealing system, could not be
exceeded in the course of the continuous sinking
work.
The Müller MS-50H HF vibrator was used for drawing
the 17 metre long connecting pile of the old
wall. The HOESCH 3 branch section for HOESCH
sheet piles was welded onto this connecting pile.
The firm of builders and constructors Tias Tiesler
Rostock, which had been contracted by the waste
removal company Cleanaway, used this positioning
procedure to complete successfully and on time
the consolidation of the former tank farm, taking
three weeks to do so, while quality control was
constantly being carried out. A total of 235 tonnes
of HOESCH sheet piles with 1200 metres of HOESCH
interlock sealing were used in the construction.
The many years of experience and the successful
cooperation on the part of all companies, involved
in this construction project, guaranteed that the
tank farm of the former oil-cracking facility in
Stralsund was consolidated properly and on time,
the work having been completed in April this year.
Those who go to Rügen via the new elevated road
south of Stralsund city centre will see nothing
more of the old gas containers and tank farms.
A new industrial park is being developed in its
place east of the B 96, which leads to the Rügen
embankment. �
Data and facts
Client and contractor: TLG Immobilien GmbH
Rostock, commissioned by the Federal State of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, total construction
costs: 4,4 Mio Euro
Planning and calculation: Baugrund Stralsund
Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH für Geo- und Umwelttechnik
Constructor: Cleanaway Rostock GmbH & Co.
KG with the firm of builders and constructers
Tias Tiesler Rostock
Sheet pile sections: approx. 235 tonnes of HOESCH
H 3600n+1.0 and H 1700 sheet piles in lengths of 6
to 18 metres, S355GP and S240 GP quality of steel
Additional information
Dr.-Ing.Wolfgang Kruse, Rostock office,
Phone: (038208) 842-12, Mobile: (01 72) 3 86 3925,
E-Mail: wolfgang.kruse@thyssenkrupp.com
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Tour de France
A 28 autoroute widened between Tours and Le Mans
The LARSSEN 430 sheet pile section was used in autoroute construction in France.
In France, the A 28 autoroute between Le Mans
and Tours is currently being widened. A particular
challenge facing the construction experts involved
crossing two valleys near to the townships of
Choiselle and Nais. The ground conditions, especially
the rock bed which functions as a support
for the base, favoured constructing the abutments
with sheet pile walls.
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik supplied about
1,200 tonnes of LARSSEN 430 sheet piles in pile
lengths of 13.5 to 17.0 metres to France. The sheet
piles were supplied as double piles and initially
placed using vibrators onto the lime marl stratum.
The sheet piles were then positioned into the rocky
bed using a diesel pile driver (D25). This guaranteed
that the vertical loads arising from the carriageway
plate were diverted into the foundation soil.
So as to achieve a secure fixing in the rocky soil,
the experts from ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
decided on sheet piles of S 355 GP, a superior
steel quality. The use of a pile-driving system with
rollers made it possible to observe exactly the
specified axial dimensions. LARSSEN 43 single
piles could be used to form the transition between
abutment and wing wall, making it possible to dispense
with expensive welded corner constructions.
Since the LARSSEN 430 sheet pile section has a
high moment of inertia and section modulus,
the abutment and wing walls could be produced
without anchors.
The French company LEDUC, which undertook the
construction work, thus used an ideal sheet pile
section for economic reasons. In addition,
dispensing with tying meant that it was possible to
achieve a shorter construction time. �
Data and facts
Client: Cofiroute, Sèvres
Constructor:
SCAO,Nanterre, driving work: LEDUC,Vernon
Planning:
Fougerolle et Compagnie BIEP
Contact person:
Marc Gartier de Saint Louis,
Conseiller technique 25, Rue Saint Pierre,
57000 Metz, Phone: +33 (0)148 08 67 69,
E-Mail: marc.gratier@wanadoo.fr

The future will have a new name: CT 4
Bremerhaven: new container terminal for Euro 498 million
The most important port construction project in
Bremerhaven this decade is the extension of the
river quay. After Container Terminal IIIa has been
completed in autumn 2003, the future of Bremerhaven
will have a new name: CT 4. But it is clear
that the transhipment of standardized containers
will roughly double in the coming ten years. Unless
the terminal is expanded and unless there are four
new berths for large container ships, Bremerhaven
will have exhausted its capacities by 2006.
More jobs
Now that the planning approval procedure has been
completed, construction is to begin this year. The
construction work should be finished by the end of
2007. Bremenports, the principal for this largescale
project, estimates that the work will cost
about Euro 498 million. This investment for the
future is being financed from the earnings of the
“special port assets”, to which the government of
the Federal State will have to allocate a total of
Euro 672 million over the next 43 years. The new
CT 4 Terminal will create about 10,000 new workplaces
until 2020.
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik has now been awarded
the contract for the extension work on the container
quay in Bremerhaven by the working group
commissioned by the Federal Land of Bremen.
The contract has a sales volume of approx. Euro
30 million. “We are pleased at the confidence
which is being placed in us. Additional workplaces
are being secured and created by the construction
The port area of Weddewarden to be enlarged. After completion of CT 4 the container quay in Bremerhaven exceeds to a length of 5.2 km.
and supply work in the area of Bremerhaven as well
as in Peine and Dortmund”, says a spokesman of
the ThyssenKrupp group.
The extension work will begin in the middle of this
year, creating in Bremerhaven the largest continuous
container quay in the world. The facility at the
mouth of the River Weser will be extended by about
1.7 kilometres.
Salzgitter AG in Peine, in which the Federal State
of Lower Saxony has a stakeholding, will produce
for the large-scale order in Bremerhaven approx.
40,000 tonnes of sheet piles and steel beams,
which will be supplied by ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik.
After the extension has been completed,
the container quay in Bremerhaven will be about
5.2 kilometres long. �
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News from ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
bauma 2004: Interested visitors on the Thyssen-
Krupp stand
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
presents itself at the bauma more
successfully than ever before
Every three years, the bauma, the world’s largest
specialist construction trade fair, opens its doors
in Munich. This year, the international construction
machinery and construction material machinery
industry sectors met from 29 March to 4 April. The
trade fair's management says that it was the most
successful bauma in its fifty year history. 410,000
specialist visitors from 171 countries came to gather
information over seven days in the halls and
on the gigantic open area of the trade fair. Manufacturers
showed a number of worldwide innovations
occupying an exhibition area of 500,000
square metres. ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
presented itself in the open area F8, block 806
A/1, occupying 600 square metres. “The per-
centage of foreign visitors and of them, those from
Central and Eastern Europe and Asia, continued
to increase. We have concluded a number of
interesting orders directly at the trade fair,” said
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik Managing Director
Christian Walter, viewing the results of the trade
fair positively. ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
demonstrated an integrated range of sheet piles,
pile driving, extracting and anchoring equipment,
trench sheeting and flood protection systems for
port and civil engineering. This year, there was a
bauma world premiere for a HOESCH sheet pile
wall, using the LARSSEN system. This HOESCH
steel sheet pile wall is 750 millimetres wide, making
it particularly economic. Another world premiere at
the bauma was for cold rolled sheet piles, which
are used for embankment consolidation as well as
for culvert construction and flood protection.
The worldwide largest MS-62 HV vibrator, which
has since been used at a German construction
site (cf. page 8), caused a stir among the experts.
The new economic HOESCH H 3600n Z-section,
the Peiner PZ 675-12 intermediate section, the
trenching system GIGANT with new double slide
rail (cf. page 9), as well as the Aqua-Stop-Damm,
which can be used in the place of sandbags when
there is flooding, all also aroused the visitors’ interest.
The management and employees of Thyssen-
Krupp GfT Bautechnik were very satisfied with
events at the bauma: several thousand visitors
were provided with information. Specific projects
and requirements were discussed with many of
the visitors. �
Vibration-free insertion of sheet piles section at
the Teltow Channel
First use of the HOESCH pile section
H 3600 n using the Giken press
Within the framework of the building measures of
the Teltow Channel in Berlin the HOESCH sheet piles
walls perform important functions. For a pipe drive
under the channel it was necessary to construct
a starting and target pit on both sides. For the
remaining sheet pile wall along the shore the new
HOESCH sheet pile section 3600 n was used. As
the stability may not be impaired in the immediate
vicinity of a building development the sheet piles
had to be pressed in by applying the Giken presses
ZP 150.
The company carrying out the construction, Ernst
Meyer, Berlin and in particular the local press
crew were impressed by the excellent behaviour
of the sheet pile section for which the stable locks
were responsible. Further construction work awaits
execution at the Teltow Channel. Also in this
instance it is intended to press in steel sheet pile
walls in order to secure the shore. The construction
method of using steel sheet pile walls and in
particular the HOESCH profiles has been shown
to constitute an economic solution. �
Self-boring drainage pipes
ensure non-slip slopes
Heavy rainfall and melting snow after a sudden rise
in temperatures may lead to dangerous slippages
on slopes and embankments. So as to take effective
precautions against this risk at a reasonable
economic expense, ground nails in accordance
with DIN 21521 are used. These nails secure the
natural stability of the ground, resulting in a new
composite material which has a high load capability.
The anchoring system, which is manufactured
by Friedr. Ischebeck GmbH and which is marketed
by ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik, has now been
supplemented by the addition of a new system
for draining slopes: the TITAN 40/20 self-boring
drainage pipes. Homogeneous, fine-grained and
permeable soils such as sand and coarse clays
are particularly susceptible to the feared slope
slippages. When it rains heavily, the seepage
water penetrates into the permeable upper soil
and, when it meets impermeable strata such as
made of rock or boulder clay, it is held back. The
static friction of this separating surface is thereby
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soil becoming heavier and heavier, until it finally
slips. To prevent this effect, ways must be found
to enable the water to flow away. Drainage pipes
which divert the ground water outward are used
for this purpose.
The new TITAN 40/20 drainage pipe has proven
itself very well in the case of relief bore holes, enabling
surplus ground water to be diverted successfully.
The drainage pipe is designed for an average
rainfall of 120 litres per minute per hectare. The
trick in installation is a simple water hose. And this
is how it works: the drainage pipes are installed
with a 90-millimetre driving nose or various drill
bits. And to ensure that sufficient rinsing water
reaches the drill bit without previously running
away through the holes in the drainage pipes, the
above-mentioned simple water hose is pushed
into the pipe when drilling is being carried out.
After the pipe has been installed, it can be removed
again and used when installing the next pipe.
Unsecured
surface
Slippped: unsecured slopes are a source of risk. Soil nails secure at-risk slopes.
TITAN
floor nails
Drainage
drilling holes
A procedure which is thus as simple as it is effective,
and one which has a further advantage in that
both TITAN 40/20 soil nails as well as drainage
pipes can be installed with the same drilling equipment
in the same drilling sequence. �
ThyssenKrupp Energostal,
a powerful partner in Poland
Being a leading supplier in terms of port and special
below-grade construction, ThyssenKrupp GfT
Bautechnik has made intensive efforts to develop
an eastward orientation to its work since the end
of the 1990s. Numerous construction projects
in Russia and Ukraine, especially in the Baltic and
Black Sea ports, have successfully established
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik's products and services
in this market also.
Closely associated with the EU eastward enlargement
in terms of topic and timing, a joint symposium
held by our Polish partner ThyssenKrupp
Energostal and ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik
Achim Grohmann, Sales Manager for Eastern
Europe, Godehard Drees, Managing Director of
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik, Rolf Stoltz, Managing
Director of ThyssenKrupp GfT Tiefbautechnik
Alsfeld, at the symposium in Warsaw. (l to r)
took place in Warsaw on 2 and 3 June 2004.
ThyssenKrupp Energostal has been active for
many years in the Polish market, having branches
in cities such as Wroclaw, Szczecin and Gdansk
selling essentially rolled steel products.
The Warsaw event, which was attended by engineering
offices and construction companies in
large numbers, took place under the motto: “The
use of HOESCH steel sheet piles in civil engineering
and building construction”. After the German-
Polish partners had introduced themselves, various
specialist lectures dealt with the topics of sheet
piles, driving and drawing equipment, flood protection
and anchoring equipment.
The experts then took questions from the participants,
leading to a stimulating exchange of ideas.
This debate, which was held at a high specialist
level, could be summarized in the unanimous conclusion
that a good basis for successful cooperation
had been found.
Roman Czyzykowski, the Commercial Director of
ThyssenKrupp Energostal, emphasized his conviction
that an effective and competent partner had
been found in ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik to
place the products sheet piles, driving equipment
and anchors in the Polish market with long-term
success. Godehard Drees, Managing Director of
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik, expressed his thanks
for the hospitality shown and, in conclusion, pointed
to the partners having jointly the necessary expertise
to devise economic solutions in cooperation
with Polish construction companies when there were
the appropriate specific project requirements. �
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