A new year ends

The year 2022 ends with many goals achieved, and we want to quickly retrace them with you.

Just in the first months of 2022 we affiliated with OICE, the association of engineering and architecture and technical-economic consultancy organizations (https://www.steelproject.it/en/new-affiliation/), subsequently we qualified in the electronic market of the public administration (acquistinretepa.it portal).

We then began the qualification procedure for the RFI portal, and we participated in national and international conferences, also receiving an important award at the Best Design Award, on the occasion of the college of steel technicians, CTA 2022 edition.

It is also important to underline the recent acquisition of 2 NEW CERTIFICATIONS:
environmental certification, according to the UNI EN ISO14001 standard, and health and safety certification in the workplace, according to the UNI EN ISO45001 standard. These certifications were issued to us in December 2022, following the audits carried out in November 2022 by the certifying body BUREAU VERITAS.

Training for our staff, not only the purely technical one, has been one of the priorities of this 2022:
refresher courses on safety in the workplace have been launched for all employees and collaborators, and additional fire prevention courses have been held and first aid.

Attention to the environment is another important aspect that we want to promote, and this is why it is taken into consideration in our strategic objectives set for the year 2023!!!

The new certificates received are shown below, as well as the 2022/2023 integrated quality-safety-environment system policy, updated following the last management review, held in November 2022.

 

 

 

Here is the last work selected for the Best Design Award competition, on the occasion of the CTA 2022 which, with our great satisfaction, won the first prize.

A project that we had already taken beyond the borders of Italy in September, when Eng. Costa illustrated in Istanbul, as part of the tenth International Symposium on steel bridges organized by TUCSA and ECCS, the design of the new arch bridge over the Adige river.

Here are some details on the bridge in question:
The road and cycle-pedestrian bridge over the river Adige in Egna is a steel bowstring arch bridge with a single span of 81.4 m. The deck has a multi-cellular box section with an upper deck made of an orthotropic plate. It’s supported by a single inclined arch with trapezoidal section placed in an eccentric position with respect to the cross section; the hangers are made up of I-section profiles with variable height as well as the cantilevers arranged at a spacing of 3.3m to support the cycle and pedestrian path which are external to the cross section of the deck.
The deck will be launched on temporary supports consisting of roller bearings on abutments and a trolley on launching yard. To reduce the cantilevered span, a lattice prop on arrival abutment and a 36m-launching nose are provided; a rear nose will be used for the final launching phases.
The assembly of the work has been completed and the finishing works are nearing completion, the load tests for the static testing of the work will be carried out in December, in anticipation of the opening to the public.
Thanks again to all the CTA organization for the prize awarded to us, we take the opportunity to show you the poster of the winning project, and some photos taken during the days at the CTA (29 September – 1 October 2022 – Francavilla al Mare)

Overpass A22

Today we inform you that on the Strade e Autostrade website there is talk of the launch of the overpass on the A22, in Egna.
A launch which, to avoid excessive obstructions to the road system, was carried out at night, and in a record time of around 3 hours.
To read the article and learn more about this last phase, here is the link: https://www.stradeeautostrade.it/ponti-e-viadotti/un-ponte-sopra-ladige/
Steel Project Engineering took care of the executive project and the assembly of the metal decks of this overpass.

Here is the project in brief:
The overpass on the A22 motorway at Egna is composed by a single span of 46 m with a bowstring arch with eliminated thrust supporting a 6.5m-wide carriageway, pedestrian walkway and cycle path.
It consists of a straight steel deck with an orthotropic plate, supported by a single arch, also in steel, inclined at 20° from the vertical and located laterally, in an eccentric position with respect to the longitudinal axis. The arch has an irregular pentagonal box and a jib of 7.5 m from the deck. The arch-bridge connection is made by means of welded double T-shaped hangers with variable section.
The deck consists of a multi-cellular caisson with 4 cores with a maximum height of 1.4 m with 3.3m pitch diaphragms. The cycle path and the pedestrian walkway, with a usable width of 2.8 m and 2.5 m, are supported by double T brackets with variable height, according to the pitch of the diaphragms.

Braila suspension bridge

Braila suspension bridge

Today we virtually take you to Romania to talk to you about a work that will surely be much talked about, once completed: the suspension bridge over the Danube, in Braila. It is a suspension bridge characterized by 3 spans, whose central span is 1120 m and whose overall development is 1974.30 m.
For this bridge, on behalf of Fincantieri Infrastructure S.p.A., we took care of the executive design of the assembly and transport equipment of the deck macro-segments having dimensions of approximately 30×40 m. In addition to the sizing of all the equipment necessary for the development of the assembly activities of the single macro-segment, the task entrusted to us included the structural analysis of the ashlars of the deck caisson, both in the survey phase (position on 4 supports), handling ( 4 or 8 supports) and storage. In particular for the survey phases, in addition to defining the appropriate reinforcements to the lower orthotropic slab of the segments in the provisional support areas, the deformed configurations during the stationing phase on 4 supports were evaluated for each type of macro-segment envisaged in the project (preliminary the geometric relief of the segment and the subsequent trimming of the sheets) and in the lifting phase in the final position for the evaluation of the geometric congruence of the segments before the execution of the definitive welded joints between segment and segment.
Ample space was dedicated to the suspension bridge of Braila in the paper magazine “Costruzioni Metalliche”, published in the February 2022 edition.
To find out more about this bridge, which is expected to be completed in 2022, please refer to an article published by Steel Technical College, which you can view at this link: https://www.collegiotecniciacciaio.it/2022/04/28/il-ponte-sospeso-sul-danubio-a-braila-progetto-e-stato-attualecostruzioni-metalliche-n-2-2022/