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88 Wood Street, London
Designed by architect Richard Rogers, 88 Wood Street is a fine modern day example of facade engineering.
Burj Al Arab Hotel
One of the tallest buildings in the United Arab Emirates is the Burj Al Arab Hotel; with construction taking 5 years at a cost of $650million, this building has become an iconic structure of Dubai's urban transformation.
Centro Commerciale Bricor, Madrid
Supplied by Macalloys spanish distributor ICQ Arte Estructural, this spanish superstore in the capital Madrid used Macalloy 460, comprising of 650 painted carbon steel, M30 bars in 3.2m lengths. With the bars complete with forks, pins and turnbuckles, Macalloy tendons formed the lattice metal work supporting the roof.
City of Manchester Stadium
Built for the 2002 Common Wealth games, the City of Manchester Stadium was further redeveloped to become the home of Manchester City football club. Throughout the redevelopment the temporary stand was taken down and replaced with a similar structure to the opposite side of the ground, as a result the capacity of the stadium was increased by 12,000.
Clarke Quay
A new ETFE cushion clad roof, provided by Hightex in Germany is supported by a series of 18 new environmental ‘angle’ structures between the shop houses. Each of these structures is tensioned by use of galvanised Macalloy 460 tension rods.
Cork Airport
Cork Airport is Irelands first 21st century terminal and represents one of the three international airports in Ireland.
Devonport Royal Navy Dockyard
The reconstruction of the Devonport Dockyard has included over 250 75mm Macalloy Bar anchors in the dock floor. With a characteristic failure load of 4310kN this is the largest bar anchor currently available.
Doha National Convention Centre, Sidra Trees
With the construction completion due in 2008 on the Doha National Convention centre. This spectacle is expected to be the largest convention centre in the Middle East, with facilities including a 2,500 seat theatre, exhibition halls and banqueting facilities for major functions.
Dubai Airport
With the new expansion due for the end of 2007, the new terminal will enable the airport to cater for more than 30 million passengers a year.
Elm Park, Dublin
Featuring a restaurant, apartments, fitness centre, a helipad, these just to name a few is what make Elm Park a residential development like no other.
Fabian Way Footbridge, Swansea
Replacing the old Siding Bridge, the new bridge provided a vital link between the park and ride site at Fabian Way and the newly constructed bus lane, which runs into Swansea city centre.
Golden Jubilee Bridges
After years of having a reputation of being narrow and dangerous, the decision was made to replace the footbridges that ran either side of the Hungerford Bridge, with new structures.
Gorzow Arch, Gorzow
BBR Polska, the distributor for Macalloy products in Poland completed work on the new arch bridge on Gorzow bypass in November 2006.
James Joyce Bridge, Dublin
Designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, the James Joyce Bridge named after the author James Joyce. Is a single road bridge spanning 40 metres across the river Liffey.
Khalifa Stadium, Doha
Re-built prior to the 2006 Asian Games, this multi use stadium had to be increased in capacity, leading to two major developments in the Western and Eastern side of the stadium.
Korean World Trade Centre Foyer
The glass wall in the Korean World trade centre foyer is another fine example of Macalloys innovation and problem solving experience, enabling the construction of what is believed to be the world’s tallest structural glass wall.
Korean World Trade Centre Pyramid
Covering the food court adjacent to the Korean World Trade Centre, the glass pyramid is believed to be the largest of its type in the world.
Lough Key Forest Park
After declining visitor numbers over the last two decades the Lough Key Forest Park, Co.Roscommon under went a £5m development with the aim of becoming a family focused facility.
Metro Station Střížkov, Prague
The new extension of the metro line in Prague to the large residential area of Prosek is set to transform transport links from this up and coming area to the centre of Prague itself.
Millau Viaduct
The magnificent Viaduc du Millau opened for public travel in 2004, with Macalloy bars used in its construction.
Millenium Bridge, London
Opened in June 2000 the London Millenium Bridge was the first new bridge since the tower bridge in 1894.
Mosnov Hanger, Mosnov
With the main hangar structure consisting of 7 bowstring lattice trusses spanning 145m, as well as 14 square lattice columns 22m high. Using pairs of tendons in M105 in the Macalloy 520 range, the tendons were used as the bottom chords of the lattice trusses. With each tendon 6m in length, the tendons were connected by turnbuckles and terminated by forks at the end of the trusses.
Munich Airport Centre
The Munich Airport Centre was built as a shopping, business and recreation area that connects both terminals 1 and 2 together. Using Macalloy 460 in diameters ranging from M30-M100, Macalloy tendons were used to support and hold down the roof canopy, with each tendon been tensioned using the Macalloy technotensioner.
Munich Airport, Munich
Built in June 2003 to deal with huge increase in passenger traffic, Macalloy are proud with the companies’ involvement in the construction of terminal 2. Which as result enabled Munich airport to accommodated over 30 million passengers in 2006.
Navia River Viaduct, Asturias
Inaugurated in June 2006, the Navia River Viaduct is made up of 2 x 160m central spans held up by 2 arches built on a prestressed deck. The arches consist of a metallic box filled with concrete; their anchorages are connected to the deck using 84 x 40 dia Macalloy 835 x 1030 pre-stressing bars. BBR PTE in Spain carried out the inspection and stressing.
Olympia Stadion, Berlin
Steeped in history, the Olympia Stadion began renovation in 2000, which would enable the stadium to host 6 matches throughout the 2006 world cup.
Pasarela Fuenlabrada, Madrid
The impressive Pasarela Fuenlabrada Bridge was constructed using a series of Macalloy S460 stainless M76 tendons, holding the bridge deck in place. Once in position the M76 bar system was tensioned using Macalloy's patented Techno Tensioner. Tecpresa, designed the footbridge in conjunction with Ferrovial Agroman, one of Spain’s largest construction companies.
Poprad Aréna
Tension Systems s.r.o the exclusive distributor for Macalloy products in Czech Republic has recently received the award for the building of the year 2007 at Slovakia.
Porto Airport
The recent redevelopment of Porto International Airport called upon the expertise of ICQ, one of Portugal’s most established and experienced design and build consultants.
Renault Distribution Centre, Swindon
Built in 1983 and designed by the renowned architect Norman Foster, the instantly recognisable former Renault Buildings' bright yellow exo-skeleton has become synonymous with tensions structures.
Reykjavik Harbour
Working in partnership with Corus, Reykjavik Harbour was Macalloy's first major project in Iceland. Utilising over a 1000 tonnes of Macalloy tie rods, in diameters of M100. This prestigious project is there for all to see.
Sazka Arena, Prague
The Sazka Arena it one of the most impressive ice hockey stadiums across Europe with a capacity to cope with 18,000 spectators.
Scottish Parliament
After several years under construction the new Scottish Parliament designed by architect Enric Miralles was certainly worth the wait.
Temple Bar Rebuild, London
The Christopher Wren designed temple bar monument was purchased by the borough of London, and re-built in the capital next to St Pauls Cathedral.
Victoria Terminal 4, Belfast
The new state of the art Victoria Terminal (VT4) and docking facilities was supplied with large diameter Macalloy 17MHS tie rods, with additional factory wrapped Denso Tape & Denso PVC with 55% overlaps providing an effective corrosion protection system. Each tie rod complete with nut, washer and an anchorage plate provided an anchorage for tubular piled anchor walls.
Walverdang Bridge, Luxembourg
The impressively designed Walverdang Bridge comprises Macalloy 460 48dia each length measures 20 metres. A total of 4 stays were used in the bridge construction. Macalloy site services were also used to produce a load into the tendon.