New AVS Branch in Gladbeck Mobile Pre-Warner with LED Technology
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Berghaus-News Traffic Technology• Mobile Crash Barriers We are member of: Fachbetrieb und Mitglied im Issue 49 April / May 2015 Verein für Verkehrstechnik VV und Verkehrssicherung e.V. V At a glance Mobile pre-warner with LED technology Many satisfied customers have relied on Contents the Berghaus mobile warning trailers for many years. And so it made sense to Page 2 expand our portfolio as vehicle manu- • Fit for the job with Berghaus facturer last year with the mobile pre- training courses warner MV-LED. Our proprietary LED • Remake: traffic signs for your pre-warner has been particularly popular pocket with traffic safety companies. • Berghaus products at the Mounted on an unbraked, hot-dip Suisse Public in Bern galvanised 750 kg trailer fitted with a parking brake and lined with chequered • Five km ProTec 100 crash aluminium plate, the MV-LED can be barriers for Norway towed by both cars and trucks. Our trailer is licensed for speeds of up to Page 3 100 km/h and is supplied ex works • Flat illuminated arrow as already with height-adjustable tow bar additional safety equipment with replaceable DIN eye and ball-type • Gentle demarking with towing device. AVS PeelJet The two LED display signs that have • Splashguard and security gone through lighting tests as per EN obstacle for ProTec 12966 have a modular structure. The surface is automatically adjusted to warning sign itself, or all func- upper LED sign, consisting preferably of the ambient brightness in the tions can also be operated while Page 4 round or triangular road signs, has 2304 interests of optimum contrast. The the vehicle is moving, using the • AVS milling machine on the red and white LEDs (48x48 px). top display sign is fitted ex works optional radio remote control A7 motorway PPP upgrade The lower sign has altogether 5120 white with double LED warning lights. device with illuminated LCD project LEDs (64x80 px) and acts in its full For transportation, the sign is colour display and active feed- • AVS Wetzlar branch has moved height as traffic control board (VZ 501 et folded down with the display back. seq.) or information sign, also with surface inside to protect it from the The traffic signs, symbols and • AVS also applies paint markings moving symbols and, on request, with the weather and is locked electrically fonts are saved in bitmap image possibility of separately superimposing in this position. The LED display is raised format and can be created by users as additional texts and distance details in and lowered with an electric lifting required on the PC. Editing software and New readers: circulation metres. spindle motor. USB leads are naturally part of the increased to 66,000 copies The luminous intensity of the LED Operation is intuitive directly at the pre- standard scope of supply from Berghaus. ThisnewissueNo.49ofthe Berghaus News comes with a considerable increase in circulation New AVS branch in Gladbeck of the print version. With immediate effect, our company newsletter is now distributed in a circulation of 66,000 copies. By the way, this includes 1,000 copies in English sent on request to our English-speaking customers abroad. It goes without saying that you can also download all issues of the Berghaus News since 2003 from our website. For many years now, the Berghaus News has been featured as an insert in the 10,300 monthly issues of the trade journals Straße und Autobahn together with Straßenverkehrstechnik The new AVS branch in Gladbeck. Traffic safety warehouse and staff rooms for the service engineers on the left. The building on by Kirschbaum Verlag in Bonn. the right has offices on both floors, with the large vehicle hall to the rear. AVS Overath GmbH now has one site in Hessen and three Similarly, it is also featured as an in NRW. insert in the trade journal Bauportal A new site has been added to the service in just a few minutes' drive, resulting in staff with the necessary know-how for (formerly Tiefbau) by Erich- network operated in North Rhine- extremely short travelling times to work pro-fessional traffic safety. Schmidt-Verlag Berlin, which is now Westphalia by AVS Traffic Safety: assignments on the motorways in nor- This is an important aspect, with the published with an increased circu- On 1 March, the two managing thern NRW and the Ruhr conurbations. first major traffic safety project for AVS lation of 45,000 copies. directors of AVS Overath GmbH, The AVS Gladbeck branch is well Gladbeck already scheduled for the A2 It is therefore our great pleasure to Andreas Schwingeler and Axel Keller, equipped right from the start, and not motorway at Bergkamen at the end of greet all new readers to our company officially opened the new branch in just in terms of its facilities, where March. Over the next two years, newsletter Berghaus-News with this Gladbeck; this is now the eleventh site employees will find a two-storey office carriageway resurfacing and bridge latest issue – welcome! throughout Germany for the AVS building and two halls on premises refurbishment work will be carried out Traffic Safety Group. covering approx. 10,000 m² with plenty here on a section of motorway covering Gladbeck was chosen to supplement the of storage space for the extensive traffic around 10 kilometres in length. Imprint existing AVS sites in NRW on account safety material. The AVS service team is Together with AVS in Overath and Published by: Editor: Peter Berghaus GmbH Dieter Berghaus of the great demand for road refur- also expected to offer a great wealth of Euskirchen, the new branch in Gladbeck Herrenhöhe 6 Text and layout: bishment, particularly on major roads in experience: branch manager Roland now gives the company its third site in D-51515 Kürten-Herweg Michael Kronenberg the Ruhr region. Monjau looks back on nearly 30 years North Rhine-Westphalia so that is Circulation: Printers: The new AVS branch is conveniently of professional experience on the traffic ideally equipped for professional traffic 65,000 copies in German Druckerei Brocker 1,000 copies in English D-51515 Kürten-Dürscheid situated in the northern Ruhr region safety sector. The experienced team is safety on NRW's road network with between the A2, A31 and A52 motor- supplemented by site supervisor altogether 30 motorways covering Peter Berghaus GmbH ways and the B224 federal highway, Thomas Girotto and several skilled around 2,200 motorway km and the is part of AVS Verkehrssicherung GmbH. which the AVS service teams can reach service engineers as well as technical 4,700 km of federal highways. - 2 - Fit for the job with Berghaus courses Remake: traffic signs for your pocket After being out of stock for a while, the Finally, we offer a brief insight into our 6th edition of our popular and often extensive production and delivery coveted Sign Scout is now available. programme of mobile traffic light And it's definitely worth taking a look at systems and mounting devices via mobile the contents, with 56 pages featuring crash barriers, mobile warning trailers more than 500 illustrations and descrip- and LED pre-warners through to double tions of all currently valid German road LED warning lights, made in Germany. signs, together with useful practical tips Innovative traffic technology from a and instructions for simple, robust single source. Safety by Berghaus! roadworks signage and for using mobile On request, we will gladly supply our traffic lights. customers with free individual copies of The Sign Scout makes it easy for example the 6th edition of the Sign Scout, alt- to find the necessary Berghaus sign hough we do make a nominal charge for stands for TL-tested stable installation larger quantities of this practical pocket according to the stipulations of the TL aid. Mounting Devices, to go with the road Our Sign Scout can also be produced in Participants of the Traffic Light Training Course II at the end of January 2015 in the signs specified in the traffic regulations an individual cover customised for your Berghaus exhibition room in Kürten. This is where theory is put into practice - straight or in the traffic regulation plan. company while keeping the same into the traffic lights - under the professional guidance of course leader Alfred Würth The system is simple to understand with contents. Minimum quantities in this case (2nd on the right) and technician Uwe Banischewski (on the right). coloured dots for clear and correct amount to 1,000 each. As in all other areas of technology, there training courses that have been held for allocation and selection of the right We look forward to your enquiry! is a constant need to actively address new more than 20 years now in Kürten in the mounting device. developments in order to keep up with Rhineland and at AVS Mellingen in progress also with regard to traffic Thuringia. This year once again around technology and particularly to traffic 100 stakeholders took up our training light controls. As manufacturer of mobile offer and attended two consecutively traffic light systems and developer of user structured two-day seminars that are software, we offer regular training ideally geared to participants on both the courses on this important range of topics basic and advanced level. for staff working in road maintenance This year once more our "traffic light depots, council depots, construction professionals" operations manager firms, specialist traffic safety companies Alfred Wurth and technician Uwe and stakeholders from other institutions. Banischewski led the participants Together with many short courses held through the various topics. Together they without charge for the affected em- have accumulated nearly 75 years of ployees on making the first delivery of a professional experience at Berghaus and new traffic light system to a customer's gladly imparted the necessary practical depot, on request we also offer individual know-how acquired from working with courses at separate dates in our training mobile traffic light systems to the course facility or "inhouse" on site.