PreConTech

38,000 click connectors for Asian housing project

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In Taytah, near the Philippine capital of Manila, construction of the San Jose del Monte Residential Project with 3,000 row houses is underway; similar project with 5,000 and 15,000 dwelling units of the same type are to follow soon

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Dieter Rausch, Managing Director of PreConTech with more than 40 years of experience in anchoring technology of double walls, personally inspected the project site

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Around 38,000 click connectors of this type will be required for this project within the next three years; with an additional 17.000 for connection to interior and exterior walls

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PreConTech GmbH recently developed an anchoring system for protecting masonry units made of various materials from the impact of seismic and thermal activity and from the effects of wind. The development had been submitted as an entry for the Innovation Prize of the Supplier Industry for Concrete Components on the occasion of the BetonTage 2017 in Ulm, Germany (BFT had reported on this event in its 04/2017 issue); a world patent has already been applied for.

A modular block made of lightweight concrete with a built-in anchoring component is affixed to masonry rails. To attach it to columns, an...