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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.
If the design of your product is used as the basis for an important national standard such as Australia’s AS 5100.4 (Bridge design – Bearings and deck joints) then you know you’re doing something right! So we are honoured to see that the High-Performance (“HP”) version of mageba’s RESTON®POT bearing has inspired such an entry in the latest update to the standard. Not that it is surprising that the HP bearing has been so well received in Australia, as it has been elsewhere around the world – including in Europe, where it has previously been awarded a European Technical Assessment. Thanks to the many benefits it offers, it has already been used in numerous construction projects around Australia and New Zealand, including the West Gate Tunnel in Melbourne, the Kids’ Bridge in Perth, the Bunbury Outer Ring Road in southwestern Australia, and the Parahaki Bridge on New Zealand's North Island – not to mention the current project Parramatta Powerhouse Museum and the recently finished Sydney Children's Hospital.
Setting standards is what we do at mageba – where we have been leading the way in the development, design and fabrication of structural bearings and expansion joints for six decades already. And we are glad to help move the construction industry forward with our efforts and innovations – in Australia and all around the world.
