Construction Plant World 11th Jan 2018

EDITORIAL FOCUS ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Bauunternehmung AG opted to use
Vögele’s Super 1803-3i wheeled paver for
the rehabilitation of the combined base
and surface course on a farm track.
Located at an altitude of around 1200m,
the construction project featured an
extreme slope of up to 11%. To make
matters harder, the farm track was only
designed for vehicles up to 18 tonnes in
weight. This was just the job Vögele‘s
wheeled paver.
Vögele sensors for grade and slope
control, for instance, can be connected
according to the plug-and-play principle:
the Vögele Niveltronic Plus system for
automated grade and slope control
detects the connected sensor
automatically. The screed operator then
simply defines the specified values using
the quick set-up function – and work can
begin. When its job is done, the paver
also makes a quick exit: the Super 1803-3i
can travel at up to 20km/h under its own
power.
Remaining in Europe, at Eindhoven
Airport, the Dutch construction company
BAM Infra recently compacted the
surface of the 3km long, 45m wide
runway using 25 rollers from Hamm. The
lion’s share of the compaction work was
performed by 10 Hamm DV+ series
pivot-steered tandem rollers (five DV+
70i VO-S models and five DV+ 90i VO-S).
It was the first time that 10 rollers – all
equipped with the HCQ Navigator
measurement and documentation system
– worked in a group to complete a
compaction assignment.
The result is impressive, not least
because the 135,000m² asphalt surface
was laid in just a single day. Moreover,
surface course refurbishment demanded
high quality standards as the 4cm thick
asphalt course had to be without joints or
lugs, while featuring the highest possible
degree of homogeneity.
Eindhoven Airport’s surface course
was laid on a Sunday after the previous