forces in motion

Mexico: Optimum seismic protection for airport terminal

SIP-DR Special Bearings enable isolation from the subsoil and a short construction period of two and a half years. Santa Lucía, Mexico. In the near Mexico City a new major airport is about to be…

More compact and improved: ETA-20/0028 for the XC1 expansion joint

Years of development work for the benefit of road traffic. Munich. Innovation is quite big a word; however, the improvements are often in many small details. The MAURER XC1 expansion joint for road…

19 MN horizontal forces require vertically installed special bridge bearings

Pelješac Bridge, Croatia: Springs in the bearing core and special materialsensure long service life despite extreme loads through permanent contact of the sliding surfaces. Munich, Pelješac. The…

First hospital with seismic isolation in Mexico City

243 isolators from Brazil, Turkey, and Germany protect the Hospital de Tláhuac. Mexico City. The subsoil underneath Mexico City can be imagined as a giant piece of Jell-O: it magnifies seismic…

Applause on the highway for the Mega-MMBS

Hamburg: Steel plates bridge 2.5-meter gap on the elevated highway K20. Hamburg: Steel plates bridge 2.5-meter gap on the elevated highway K20. Hamburg. In September, there was applause and relief on…

30-ton bearings for the new Danube Bridge in Bratislava

Spherical bearings accommodate 21,000 tons of vertical and 4,000 tons of horizontal forces. Munich, Bratislava. Bratislava is about to get its fifth Danube bridge in the South. Due to the bridge…