Newsflash | September 2024

The Leaning Tower of … St. Moritz?

Although not as well-known as the world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, the idyllic resort town of St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps has its own leaning tower which requires attention from time to time in order to prevent it from falling over – and mageba has been supporting the work for decades...

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Modular maintenance

The Geoga Bridge in South Korea, equipped with TENSA®MODULAR expansion joints in advance of its opening in 2010, is currently having the elastomeric and sliding components of the joints replaced to optimise their ongoing performance...

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Extraordinary bridge components

mageba’s team in Kolkata was excited to receive the order to design and manufacture remarkable pendulum rocker bearings and large modular expansion joints for the new Bago River Crossing (Thanlyin Bridge 3) in Myanmar – and has done a great job delivering them and overseeing their installation...

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Setting standards

Having proven its worth on various projects in Australia in recent years, mageba’s RESTON®POT HP bearing – the newer High-Performance version of the original RESTON®POT bearing – has now inspired a special approach to bearing design in the latest update to the relevant Australian bridge design standard...

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Newsflash | July 2024

Viaduct renovation

The steel truss structures of the historic Wipkinger viaduct in Zurich are currently undergoing extensive renovation. With the new mageba bridge bearings and expansion joints, the bridges will have the necessary "freedom of movement" to cope with future traffic...

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A partner for life

Modifications to design standards and ever-changing usage patterns can lead to evolving demands on historic structures. s your structure equipped with mageba bridge bearings or expansion joints? You can rely on our expert team to remain on hand should needs of the asset change throughout the service life – as was recently the case with the SR520 pontoon bridge in Seattle...

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Carrying A380s in Singapore

If you had to replace the bearings of a bridge that carries the world’s largest passenger aircraft, which manufacturer would you talk to? When the need arose at Singapore’s Changi Airport, the responsible engineers placed their trust in mageba...

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India’s longest cable-stayed structure

The Sudarshan Setu Bridge on India’s west coast, newly connecting the holy island of Beyt Dwarka to the mainland for two million pilgrims each year, is India’s longest cable-stayed structure...

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Bridging over mining country

Running through a mining area near Sydney, the "Spring Farm" motorway is susceptible to ground subsidence throughout its service life. To provide robustness to major structures, mageba bridge bearings and expansion joints with large movement and rotational capacities are incorporated into the superstructure...

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Amistad Costa Rica

mageba has recently supplied the bridge bearings and expansion joints needed for the renovation of a key cable-supported bridge in western Costa Rica...

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Newsflash | March 2024

Replacement of 55-year-old mageba bearings

mageba is currently replacing bridge bearings that the company supplied for a Swiss highway viaduct in 1969 – marking the end of an excellent service life for bearings of that time...

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Mumbai sea crossing completion

India's longest sea bridge, the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), which was constructed using mageba bearings and expansion joints, was inaugurated in January 2024...

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Yangtze River record

When spectacular suspension bridges are built across the world’s third longest river in the Chinese metropolis of Nanjing, mageba is consistently asked to design and manufacture the enormous expansion joints required – with five such structures now featuring our TENSA®MODULAR joints...

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Damper configurations

The RESTON®SA shock absorbers of the administration building of the ITESM university in Guadalajara illustrate how differently such seismic dampers can be used in the same structure...

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Sydney airport rail link

mageba’s team in Australia has supplied hundreds of bridge bearings for the construction of a new railway line serving Western Sydney Airport...

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A third Fraser River crossing

The Pattullo Bridge replacement, connecting the communities of Surrey and New Westminster in Canada, is the latest major crossing of the Fraser River to be constructed using mageba key components...

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Newsflash | December 2023

Autobahn renovation

2023 saw the completion of a three-year motorway renovation project in Switzerland for which mageba replaced or renovated the bearings and expansion joints of numerous bridge structures...

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Korean innovation

Faced with the challenge of refurbishing the old modular expansion joints of a major suspension bridge, our team in South Korea developed a new method that involves replacing only the surface beams – minimising impacts on the structure and on traffic...

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New York Giants

Seven years after completion of the first phase of refurbishing the enormous finger-type expansion joints on the extraordinarily long Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York, mageba is still the refurbishment supplier of choice for the demanding expansion joints...

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Peruvian protection

Seismic protection of buildings and bridges continues to grow in significance across Latin America, as demonstrated by many recent mageba projects – such as the supply of shock absorbers for the Shougang Building in the Peruvian capital, Lima...

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Race against time

When part of New Zealand’s State Highway 25A was washed away in a storm, the clock immediately started ticking on a project to reconnect the communities it served as quickly as possible – and mageba was happy to help by ensuring the required bearings and expansion joints were designed, manufactured and delivered to site in good time...

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Newsflash | September 2023

Swiss bearing replacement expertise

Our team in Switzerland shows its capabilities in carrying out the high-precision work required to replace the bearings of one of the busiest highway viaducts in the country – the Hammermuhle Viaduct near Zurich...

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Singapore exceptional

The world's largest combined train and bus depot – which is also believed to be the first building-type depot for both trains and buses – is being constructed in Singapore using mageba structural bearings and expansion joints...

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In the pipeline

The 192 specially developed free-sliding bearings already delivered for the Kangaroo Valley Pipeline, which supplies water to the Australian state of New South Wales, represent just the start of this multi-phase project...

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Keeping India moving

In the renovation of the Naini Bridge, one of India’s oldest and longest cable-stayed bridges, the required bridge bearing and expansion joint replacement work had to be carried out without any closure of the bridge due to its importance to local and regional traffic...

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New in New Orleans

We are pleased to report the successful completion of our project to design and supply the expansion joints required for the new Belle Chasse River Bridge in the outskirts of Louisiana’s biggest city...

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Newsflash | July 2023

What every bridge and structural engineer should know about selecting and specifying structural bearings

Your project requires the use of bearings to support a structure while resisting or accommodating movements or rotations – what do you need to know?...

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Danube spectacular

The beautiful new Braila Bridge over the Danube in eastern Romania is an eye-catching addition to the local landscape, and the enormous expansion joints that accommodate its movements are spectacular in their own right...

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High in the Himalayas

Construction of the Chenab Railway Bridge – the world’s highest railway bridge, in the Indian foothills of the Himalayan mountains – has now been completed, with mageba bearings supporting its superstructure....

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Sleep well in Seattle

mageba has now completed the installation of noise-reduced expansion joints in the new South Structure of Seattle’s SR520 West Approach Bridge – similar to the silent joints that were installed in the North Structure in 2016/2017 to minimise noise disturbance from traffic crossing the world’s longest floating bridge...

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Australian diversity

In designing and manufacturing the various expansion joints and structural bearings required for the construction of the Bunbury Outer Ring Road in Western Australia, mageba is demonstrating the diversity in its product range....

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Bangkok bridge bearings and expansion joints

The new Rama III cable-stayed bridge in the Thai capital has now been equipped with mageba finger-type expansion joints at both ends, and the connecting ring-road viaduct is being constructed using over one thousand mageba pot bearings...

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Newsflash | April 2023

What every structural and civil engineer should know about "seismic isolation solutions"

Your bridge, building or other structure is to be protected against earthquakes by means of seismic isolation – but what solutions are available?...

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No bearing replacement challenge we can’t handle

mageba’s team in Germany demonstrates its expertise in replacing the old roller bearings of a railway bridge with the superior modern alternative, the RESTON®CYLINDER bearing – and completing the job on schedule despite the substantial challenges encountered...

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Another Mekong Delta landmark

Following the supply of 10-gap modular expansion joints for the My Thuan Bridge in 2021, mageba has now followed up with the supply of the bearings required by the nearby My Thuan II Bridge – the fifth major cable-stayed bridge in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region relying on mageba key components...

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Building on experience

The Cibeles Tower in Mexico City is currently undergoing a major renovation, with mageba shock absorbers at every level protecting it against earthquakes of the kind that have damaged it in the past...

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Australian progress

The Spirit of Progress Bridge in Australia represents the first use of mageba’s TENSA®GRIP single-gap expansion joint in New South Wales following the state’s years-long evaluation and certification process – ushering in a new era in which only expansion joints of the highest quality should be used on the region’s highways, to the benefit of bridge owners and users alike...

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Border crossing

The Gordie Howe International Bridge, connecting the United States and Canada across the Detroit River, is currently being built using mageba spherical bearings...

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Newsflash | January 2023

Singapore priority

The importance of quality in the ongoing construction of Singapore’s longest Transit Priority Corridor is evident in the use of tried-and-trusted mageba bridge bearings and expansion joints...

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Monorail movements

Cairo’s new monorail system is being built with thousands of newly developed mageba expansion joint components facilitating the movements of its elevated structures...

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Temporary but extraordinary

In proposing the optimal temporary seismic support solution for the superstructure of a new highway bridge in New Zealand, and designing and manufacturing the huge bearings and shear keys required in a very short timeframe, mageba provided the exceptional service that customers have come to expect...

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Himalayan access

In the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, a railway line is being constructed which will vastly improve access to the mountainous region near the border with Tibet – and mageba’s team in Kolkata is lending its expertise in providing sophisticated bearing solutions for some of the bridges along the route...

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Indian inputs

Our team in Kolkata shows the added value mageba’s engineers can bring to a bridge construction project when they are given the opportunity to offer their expertise – in this case relating to the required bridge bearings – in the early stages of a project...

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Newsflash | September 2022

Same again in Budapest

Like the Danube Arena in Hungary’s capital, which was built some years before to host the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, the city’s new MVM Dome – which has since been built to host the 2022 European Men’s Handball Championship – has its roof structure supported by mageba RESTON®SPHERICAL bearings....

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Preparing for the Asian Games

Like every other city that hosts a major sporting event such as an Olympics or a World Cup, the Chinese city of Hangzhou is “putting its best foot forward” in preparation for the next Asian Games – with top-of-the-range TENSA®POLYFLEX®ADVANCED expansion joints installed in the new expressway leading to the main Games venue....

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Building safety in Manila

The seismic safety of the five main buildings of the Solaire Resort & Casino in the Philippine capital is now being monitored using mageba’s state-of-the-art ROBO®QUAKE technology....

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Return to Louisiana

mageba’s current project to supply expansion joints for the new Belle Chasse Bridge in Louisiana marks a return to the state where we supplied extraordinarily large sliding finger expansion joints over a decade earlier....

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Spreading the word in Mexico

Following numerous building construction projects in Mexico City for which mageba has supplied hydraulic dampers in the past, we are proud to have now delivered the first such shock absorbers for a project outside the capital – bringing the benefits of their use to a much wider population....

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Delivered despite delays

A bridge replacement project in Auckland has finally been completed after a long delay due to Covid-19, but the pandemic did not affect the rapid supply of the required bearings....

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Newsflash | June 2022

Delaware trials

On the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the United States, trial installations have now been completed of the two types of TENSA®POLYFLEX flexible plug expansion joint that are to be used to replace all of the bridge’s expansion joints in the coming years...

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Australian approvals

After a long and demanding certification process, mageba is delighted to have now become the first supplier to be awarded general approvals in New South Wales for its single gap (“nosing”) and cantilever finger expansion joints equipped with AS5100.4-compliant, fatigue-resistant anchorage systems – making it no longer necessary to obtain project-specific approvals for future projects...

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Hinges for cantilevers

The balanced cantilever method of bridge construction offers significant benefits, but requires a high-tech design for the hinge detail that connects the cantilever tips at each mid-span discontinuity – such as the central hinge bearings recently supplied by mageba for the New Brahmaputra Bridge at Tezpur, India...

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Circular motion

The expansion joints we supply for bridges and buildings must typically be designed to facilitate some degree of transverse movement of the superstructure – generally much less than the longitudinal movement – but the two-level Geumgang Pedestrian Bridge in South Korea, with its circular shape, required expansion joints that will accommodate an unusual combination of movements...

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Local in Slovakia

The bearings and expansion joints for the bridges of a new section of highway in southern Slovakia have been supplied by mageba’s local subsidiary...

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A first for Guatemala City

mageba is proud to have recently provided the seismic protection solution for the first seismically isolated building in Guatemala City – and one of the first in Central America...

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Seismic safety

mageba’s team in the United States is proud to have been selected to help develop and supply a comprehensive seismic protection solution for a new arch bridge in the Californian city of Corona...

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