The world of hot dip galvanizing around us - hdgasa

The world of hot dip galvanizing around us
Solar panel shelter and louver of local government office building (above left and right).
Umeda Sky-Building. Soundproof walls for Hiroshima-Iwakuni Highway.
About 100 tons of steel was used for the connection bridge
at the 22nd story alone.
Soundproof walls for Hiroshima-Iwakuni
Highway
Cities on the coast of Seto Inland Sea is one of the
industrial development centres in Japan.
About 20 years ago, the Hiroshima-Iwakuni Highway was
constructed as a bypass to relieve the traffic congestion
on the existing roads.
Soundproof walls are set up if necessary where the traffic
noise seemed to affect the amenity of the circumference.
Galvanized steel was used for the support of the
soundproof wall, guardrails, sign poles etc.
Railway station
The main use of hot dip galvanized steel in the railway
system for a long time has been overhead wiring poles.
But in recent decades, at every opportunity of
modernisation and rebuilding, the station buildings, such
as platform houses, are being substituted by galvanized
steel structures.
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The photo with the train at the platform shows a station
of privately owned railway in Yokohama city. It was built
in 1948 as a wooden station and renewed in 2000 as a
steel-built station. All the steel for the station was hot dip
galvanized to minimise the maintenance cost as trains
run every six minutes during the busiest hours.
The other two photos show a local railway station owned
by local governments and private companies along the
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Station of a privately owned railway in Yokohama city.