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Newsflash | October 2020
Old-style renewed
mageba’s team in Germany shows it has what it takes to renovate expansion joints of any kind – even the old-style roller shutter joints still in use on older bridges throughout the country...
Loooong life
Considering its exceptionally long expected service life of 170 years, the constructors of the replacement of the Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi on Texas’s gulf coast have paid special attention to the durability, maintainability and replaceability of the bridge’s key components...
Engineering art
Most people would recognise the beauty in the design of the New Shougang Bridge, recently constructed in Beijing. But can critical engineering components, such as the expansion joints that allow its superstructure to move, also be considered beautiful? We like to think so!...
Citywide in Singapore
A bearing replacement project with extraordinary scope – involving 36 bridges right across the city-state of Singapore – has given mageba a chance to shine as a top-quality bearing supply specialist...
Particular challenges
With innovation at its core, mageba has always risen to the challenge of providing structural bearing and expansion joint solutions to the unique demands of bridges all around the world – as demonstrated once again in a current bridge construction project in India...
Supporting the arts
The Sydney Opera House is currently undergoing the biggest renovation in its history, with mageba bearings supporting the new stage of its main concert hall...
Fine-tuned performance
A new cable-stayed footbridge in Hungary is being equipped with tuned mass dampers and spherical bearings that will ensure the structure’s long-term ability to perform well – both structurally and from a serviceability point of view...
Ecuadorian isolation – building on experience
Following the successful completion of projects to supply seismic isolation bearings for the reconstruction of two hospitals in western Ecuador, mageba was awarded the contract to supply bearings of the same type for a third hospital that was also destroyed by the same earthquake in 2016...
This is how we do it
Here we use pictures from a project in Mexico City – to supply large seismic isolator bearings for the construction of a new building complex – to illustrate some of the key steps that typically arise when mageba is supporting a construction project anywhere in the world...
Installation supervision – 2020 style!
mageba’s recent introduction of remote supervision of installation – with the supervision from Europe of TENSA-POLYFLEX-ADVANCED PU expansion joint installation in Australia – ushers in a new era of lower costs, increased flexibility and environmental sustainability...
Rhineland variety
For the Rhineland Route project in Holland, a multifaceted road and tunnel project, mageba has been supplying bridge bearings and expansion joints of various types since 2019...
Amazon access
We are proud to be playing a part in the construction of a bridge in Peru that will provide road access for the first time to a city on the Amazon – a city whose metropolitan population of almost half a million people has so far relied on boats and aircraft to connect to the outside world...
Newsflash | June 2020
All inclusive
The comprehensive range of bridge products and associated services offered by mageba is demonstrated on a current highway structure renovation programme in Switzerland...
Flexible refurbishment
The TENSA®POLYFLEX®ADVANCED (Type PU) joint, mageba’s top-of-the-range flexible plug joint, has been used to replace the many small-movement expansion joints of the Älvsborg Bridge in Gothenburg – thanks in part to the ease with which it can be installed in sections, lane by lane, with no loss of durability or performance...
Uplift upgrade
State-of-the-art uplift bearings have now been installed to replace the antiquated pin-and-link devices that originally secured the superstructures of the Delaware Memorial Bridge...
Colombian university
The new science building of EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia’s second biggest city, is being constructed on mageba seismic isolators to ensure its safety during future earthquakes...
Supporting clean energy
mageba structural bearings have been used in the construction of the central tower of a huge concentrated solar power (CSP) facility in China, supporting the receiver onto which the sun’s rays are reflected by thousands of mirrors to heat molten salt and generate power...
Remarkable aqueduct
A new 15-kilometre elevated irrigation structure near Bangalore in southern India is very noteworthy, but not only for its impressive dimensions – it also carries a road on top...
Champlain challenge – structural monitoring
Work on the second major aspect of mageba’s contribution to the construction of Montreal’s iconic Samuel de Champlain Bridge – its SHM system, following after its expansion joints – is now about to draw to a...
Tailored for railway
A current project to supply and install structural bearings for a heritage-protected railway bridge in Germany demanded a tailor-made solution to meet the various challenges arising...
Slope no problem
The construction of a steep, long-span bridge in eastern Australia required its bearings to be designed for installation at a very high gradient...
