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FormworkPress Professional Formwork News XI/2020 The XT factor Flexibility on residential contracts – page 8 FormworkPress XI/20 Contents News Joint venture in Australia, sites in Austria and Germany .................................. 4 50 years of MEVA Simply smart! ................................................................................................ 6 Stress test passed with flying colours ULLIBau puts StarTec XT through its paces under taxing conditions .............. 8 Care home in Norway Mammut XT plays to its strengths ............................................................... 10 Triumphant premiere in Cyprus Office block built with MevaDec and StarTec .............................................. 12 New splendour on the Ku‘damm Gloria office and commercial building in Berlin............................................ 14 Safety and flexibility MT 60 shoring tower supports south German food market .......................... 17 Architectural gem for Budapest The Pesterzsébeti Makovecztemplom ......................................................... 18 Sprouting up quickly, but safely MEVA32 and StarTec in use at Chilean copper mine ..................................... 20 Underground impressionists Danish museum extension cast with StarTec ............................................... 22 Imprint Site photos show situations which do not always depict the final assembly of formwork with regard to safety regulations. Imprint: Edition XI/2020. Circulation: 2600 copies. Publisher: MEVA SchalungsSysteme GmbH, Industriestr. 5, D72221 Haiterbach. Layout: MEVA. Print: C. Maurer Druck + Verlag, D73312 Geislingen/ Steige. Reprint and reuse of any editorial content only by copyright permission. We accept no liability for the content of external internet sites, nor for a violation of privacy or any other law arising from these. 2 "50 years of MEVA is a milestone that drives us on to intensify our partnerships with you, our customers." Dear Reader, Half a century ago, my father, Gerhard Dingler, had wishes and needs passionately and responsibly, the idea of renting out cranes and other equipment and collaborate closely in the successful delivery of for the growing construction industry. Listening projects. closely to what building contractors and workers wanted, he soon noticed the increasing demands 50 years of MEVA is a milestone that drives us Florian F. Dingler, Owner and Managing Director and expectations they placed on concrete form on to intensify our partnerships with you, our of MEVA SchalungsSysteme GmbH work. They were seeking greater safety, flexibility customers. We are constantly working to develop and costeffectiveness for their site operations – a even better products and services for your future requirement which, indeed, has not changed since projects. 1970. One of the fruits of our relentless efforts is featur What has changed, on the other hand, are many ing ever more prominently on building sites: our work procedures. MEVA's ideas have become new StarTec XT formwork system with the novel reality and, I am proud to say, have revolutionised integrated combination tie hole that unites three the world of construction. The simple, smart MEVA tying methods in one system and thus offers even assembly lock, the robust Mammut heavyduty greater flexibility on residential and commercial formwork, the alkus allplastic facing and numer contracts. One contractor subjected the allrounder ous other innovations have established themselves to a veritable stress test and was thrilled at the re as the industry standard and made tough site sults. On the following pages, you will find further operations worldwide safer, more flexible, more details of this and much more. costeffective – in a word, simpler. I hope you enjoy your read. As your partner, MEVA has been privileged to offer you advice and support on projects of diverse size Best regards, and complexity, for which I offer my sincere thanks. And I vow that MEVA's ambition – the one that has driven us from the very outset – will remain unchanged: we will continue to respond to your 3 FormworkPress XI/20 News Information about MEVA © Novatec Joint venture in Australia Flying high with MT 60 Partnered with its distributor Novatec Formwork In 1898, at the age of 26, Ernst Schoemperlen Systems, MEVA has succeeded in concluding another established Germany's first automobile repair shop. cooperation agreement. Through the Novatec MEVA Today, S&G Automobil AG is a MercedesBenz Pilbara joint venture, the two companies will expand dealer with 1,400 employees. A new threestorey their core competencies by branching out into a new commercialvehicle centre was recently built at the market: opencast mining in the Pilbara, a region rich company’s headquarters in Karlsruhe. The form in raw materials in northwestern Australia. work design for the 12 m tall commercial building was performed by MEVA. The works involved the The successful collaboration with the fifth continent use of Mammut 350 wall formwork, Circo column now dates back some 20 years. Headquartered formwork and the KAB foldable working platform. in Adelaide, Novatec primarily serves largescale development projects, such as highrises, business The MT 60 shoring tower also played a key role. centres and residential parks, as well as smaller As the system allows quick horizontal or vertical infrastructure projects in various urban centres assembly without complicated handling of tools, across Australia. Together, MEVA and Novatec find bolts or pins, the towers were soon in place. Safe effective ways of meeting the very stringent Austral working was guaranteed by integrated solutions ian safety requirements, which set the standard for such as the safety access ladders in each segment, many global markets. secure framemounted planking and allround fall protection on the working platform. They have already tackled numerous projects, including some in the thinly populated western areas. From its The contractor was thrilled at the results. "Using base in Port Hedland, the joint venture will focus on the MEVA systems enabled us to keep to the schedule Pilbara, which boasts the world's largest deposits of and also meet all the requirements placed on the iron ore and other raw materials. The mining and logis quality of the concrete," explained Christian Kary, tics operations here require the provision of extensive construction manager at MOSER GmbH & Co. KG. infrastructure, such as bridge abutments and buildings for primary processing of the extracted materials. 4 Timesaving StarTec XT Specially designed formwork The use of MEVA technology on a 31unit housing The name MEVA is synonymous with indepth scheme in Kufstein, Austria helped to speed up knowhow – also in the formidable field of special site operations and achieve high concrete quality. designs. For the new terminal project at Frankfurt Rieder Baugesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KG opted to Airport, MEVA's special design experts devised deploy uptotheminute MEVA systems: the new a formwork solution for paired columns that are StarTec XT wall formwork along with the weight linked at the top by a narrower lintel. and handlingoptimised MevaDec slab formwork. 29 paired circular columns, up to 5 m tall and The StarTec XT system with integral combi tie 2.10 m wide, were cast in tinted concrete with a hole allows flexible, onetouch switching between SB3grade fairfaced finish. The solution was based three tying methods without the installation of on MEVA's Circo column formwork with 3.00 and additional parts. To cast the 270 cm tall walls, site 1.00 m tall, 0.65 m diameter semicircular units. manager Fabian Gfäller and his team decided to Designed with a fresh concrete load capacity of use singlesided tying with the XT taper tie. The 120 kN/m², the formwork allowed the columns wall thickness was defined simply by locking spacer to be cast in a single pour. The 1.90 m tall, 2.34 rings in place at the end of the tie. There was no m wide special assemblies, weighing over 800 kg, need for plastic tubes, ancillary cones or any of the were simply joined up with the Circo units on site. normal, timeconsuming operations. All components were cathodedipcoated for cor rosion resistance, which also made quick cleaning As site manager Fabian Gfäller confirms, "The use possible for reuse. of StarTec XT and XT taper ties for the wall form work was a key factor in speeding up the assembly According to the Contract Planning department of and stripping processes." project contractor Anton Schick GmbH + Co. KG, "MEVA's special formwork enabled us to cast the paired columns on time and in the required quality without any problems." 5 FormworkPress XI/20 50 years of MEVA Pioneer and trendsetter Increasing customer benefit: MEVA innovations revolutionise construction industry The young Gerhard Dingler had the right Formwork. Simple. Smart. instincts 50 years ago when, seeing his What started 50 years ago was the first chapter future in construction, he founded DINGLER of a continuing success story, now upheld by a Baugeräte GmbH & Co. KG. He started off 600strong workforce. The Haiterbach site is home by selling and renting out cranes and other to the R&D, production, logistics, engineering and equipment. Always with a listening ear for sales departments. True to its tagline "Formwork. his customers and quick to spot the market Simple. Smart.", MEVA develops technically so demand for more modern formwork systems, phisticated solutions for straightforward applica he sprang into action. 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