Patented high-performance reinforced concrete pipes for Antwerp infrastructure project
Figure: Berding Beton
Figure: Berding Beton
Figure: Berding Beton
Figure: Berding Beton
Figure: Berding Beton
Figure: Berding Beton
Figure: Berding Beton
As part of the Antwerp Master Plan the most important traffic junction in the Belgium region of Flanders shall be optimized, thus improving the traffic situation. For one of the project – Ijzerlaan – patented high-performance reinforced concrete pipes of Berding Beton were installed over a length of 255 m for the utility tunnels required using the large-diameter pipe jacking method.
About 850,000 inhabitants in and around Antwerp will benefit from the elaborate infrastructure project. The objectives pursued by the „Antwerp Master Plan 2020“ include: to solve the problem of traffic congestions, to increase road safety, and to improve the citizens‘ quality of life. All measures should be implemented by 2023. And they not only concern road traffic, but also public transport, pedestrian and cyclist areas as well as water and canal traffic respectively. The centerpiece of the measures, however, is the completion of the circle of the Antwerp urban motorway ring road, the...
