Manufacturing precast components weighing 3100 tons in just 40 days

Formwork panels of Westag achieved the targets

The skiing hall in Oberhof/Thuringia (Germany) built with precast concrete components will allow German athletes to get optimally ready for the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver/Canada. Goldbeck-Unternehmensgruppe was commissioned with planning, design and construction of the building. A tight schedule characterized the ambitious project. The precast components, e.g. columns with molded base sections, bars and beams, 80 different types in total were manufactured by FTO-Fertigteilwerk Obermain GmbH. This time again the constructor relied on the formwork material of Westag & Getalit AG.

As it is a common practice in Germany to work out quite individual concepts FTO has specialized in this respect meeting the special requirements of the customers in the range of bars and prestressed concrete almost exclusively with timber formwork.

 

Formwork panels of Westag exclusively

The production manager of FTO, Günter Steinfelder, states: “As apart from the quality of the formwork, the frequency of use and the very good quality of the concrete surface are convincing too, we work exclusively with the plastic-coated timber formwork panels of the type called Magnoplan Universal of Westag &

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