High Quality Standard Infrastructure – water works
Oslo Water and Sewage Valve Junction, Erlandstuveien Oslo Norway
Project Profile |
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| Category: | City of Oslo Water Works |
| Owner & Developer: | Oslo |
| Structural Engineer: | Concribe |
| General Contractor: | Oslo VAV |
| Concrete Supplier: | Skedsmo Betong AS |
| Completion: | August 2020 |
Technical details |
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| Slab on Grade: | 30cm box poured free of steel |
| Concrete Type: | C35 M45 Concrete |
| Composite reinforcement solution: | Basalt MiniBars™ 43mm @ 10 Kg/m3 Composite bars used to reinforce box lid Savings of 3 days in elimination of binding steel on a city street closed to traffic. |
| Other: | Faster pouring time due to no steel. Easy to drill/cut holes to install water supply pipes. |
Project description
City of Oslo is looking for cost effective and time saving technology to upgrade water and sewage supply systems, and to minimize downtime and interruption of daily activities.
First water valve station was done with time savings in setting up the form work (no holes to cast in place for water mains) elimination of binding steel (3 days saved) and faster pouring of the concrete meaning lower delivery charges for the concrete 50% time saved.