Swiss system offers major savings
01 March 2004
BAM will feature – Bamtec – its innovative and economic system for designing, manufacturing and installing reinforcement steel in concrete floors, slabs, bridges, railway-lines, motorways and tunnels at this month’s bauma 2004, a major construction equipment show which takes place from March 29 to April 4 in Munich, Germany.
Says a spokesman for the Switzerland-based company: “Bamtec is a new and particularly economic method for the planning, manufacturing, and installation of plane reinforcements for concrete floors and reinforced concrete slabs with any type of bedding.
Bamtec is based on the round steel bar plane reinforcement method, which is widely used in reinforced concrete construction; however, it utilises all the possibilities of data processing systems of the consulting engineers as well as in the automatically manufacturing machines of the bending shops. Instead of the conventional steel mesh, Bamtec elements are used for the reinforcement of concrete floors or reinforced slabs. They consist of uniaxially arranged round steel bars, connected by transverse supporting strips to form an installation unit.
“When using the system, the statics designer becomes the operations scheduling engineer for the contractor, says the spokesman.
The company claims that Bamtec saves up to 80 per cent installation time and up to 40 per cent reinforcement steel. It has also become a part of a world record, whereby two men from a German construction company, using the Bamtec system, installed 6.2 tonnes of reinforcement in 42 minutes, says the spokesman.
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