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”Maximum breaking power was needed and we could provide it,” says Marco. Some of the LODAB people that worked in UAE. From the left: Rolf Olsson, Kent Grahn, Jonas Persson, Marco Pääkkönen, Nils Strömgren, Ronald Aronsson and Greger Karlsson. The two F70 breakers from Furukawa in action. with construction and demolition of steel plants in the Arab world. The Al Garhoud Bridge The first task was to demolish the 450m long Al Garhoud Bridge in Dubai. It took 10 weeks to demolish the 160 m wide, eight-lane bridge, including the foundations in the water, which were removed to 1m below riverbed level. The bridge was made of reinforced concrete beams resting on four concrete foundations, each containing 30 steel pillars filled with concrete. Machines and tools used for the job were a Hitachi 650 and a Hitachi 850, one with an extended stick of 5.5 m. These were complemented by two 5t Furukawa F70 breakers a concrete crusher from Trevi Benne. A big part of the demolition and earth removal was made from a barge. “The breaking, cutting and removal of earth and stones where quite difficult. The barge was 2m high and we had to reach to 1m under the bottom level. We also had to keep track of the tide in order to reach to the bottom,” says Lars-Olof. LODAB’s team of eight people and two superintendents demolished about 1500m 3 of concrete and other types of material in 10 weeks in unusual conditions. “When we started in January 2008 the climate was good, but by the end of the project we had some days with temperatures as high as 48° C. That was pretty hot but we got use to it. Our machines are also well air conditioned so the operators didn’t complain. I was a bit worried about the machines and tools overheating,” says Lars-Olof. In terms of temperatures things got different when LODAB was hired to demolish a pre-stressed concrete bridge in the desert city Al Ain. Al Ain in the desert About 150 km south of Dubai, close to the boarder of Oman is the Emirate Al Ain where temperatures often reach over 50°C in the shade. It is impossible to work outdoors in the middle of the day. In the centre of the city a pre-stressed concrete bridge had to be replaced by a crossroad. The same machinery was used at this site plus the pulverizer HC60 from Trevi Benne and the large FX-90 concrete crusher from NPK. LODAB had three employees on the job and one superintendent. About 4,000m 3 concrete was demolished and the work took about 12 weeks. It is not unusual for demolition contractors to cross over boarders, but to go from Sweden to UAE is uncommon. The reason for this is the ability to offer different expertise not available from other contractors in the area, according to Dahl. But special competence costs money and something they have in UAE. “We make money on what we are doing, no doubt. Otherwise we wouldn’t take a lot of equipment so far which cost around EUR12,000 in freight just one-way per excavator,” adds Dahl. But LODAB has gone to the UAE to stay. They have Rolf cut’s some of the steel beams at the Al Garhoud bridge with a Propane cutting torch. a lot of interesting jobs that LODAB is ready to take on whenever they are needed as they have their company in Dubai. However, the UAE is suffering from the economic situation just as much as any other country in the world and many projects are on hold. Back to the old country Some of LODAB’s machines are still in UAE but will be sent home, as they are needed in Sweden for a number of process industry projects. The demolition of a large paper mill at Vargön about 150 km north east of Gothenburg started recently. This is a big job that will take up to a year to finish and around 100,000 t of concrete and steel will be demolished. LODAB has recently finished a number of other jobs, including the demolition of another paper mill in mid Sweden, a steelworks in Degerfors and the demolition of the railway terminal Klara in the middle of Stockholm. www.lodab.com 40 PDi • Is s u e 3 - 2009 • Au g - Se p t
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