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STRUCTURAL STEEL ENGINEERING
Shifting of railway overpass near Hoesbach / Hessen
Highway A40/B1 Schnettker Bridge, Dortmund
Construction and repair of steel structures also belong to
the tradition within SBN. While the production and assembly
of steel bridges had already started at the beginning of the
90s, repair and restoration projects incrementally entered
the focus of our structural steel engineers some time later.
With time, our own performance ratio, but also the size and
requirements of the projects steadily increased. Meanwhile,
we can refer to over 200 successfully realized projects in
structural steel engineering and are proud to have
consistently and successfully completed each one of them.
Insertion of a railway overpass Amsinck Street, Hamburg
Our qualied personnel ensure a high quality, particularly in
projects involving scheduled check intervals and production
stops. It all begins in the technical ofce, where workshop
and assembly plans are developed by our structural
engineers, constructors and designers, and at our structural
steel assemblies, our employees from tter and welder
through supervisor to the assembly manager and engineer
are at work. Their extensive knowledge and years of
experience, coupled with a wide inventory of in-house
assembly equipment, enables us to nd the perfect solution
for your requirements. It goes without saying that, for us,
the coordination of the companys own structural steel
production in our projects is as important as the inclusion of
other production partners in Germany and abroad; whereby
the quality standards are always of paramount importance.
We always consider ourselves a quality-oriented, innovative
and reliable partner for your structural steel engineering
projects.
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Services and qualifications

As specialists in processing of sheet steel with traditional
main performance features in
n construction and repair of steel and composite-steel
bridges as road and railway bridges
n restoration, strengthening and repair of steel constructions,
for example, on crane tracks and steel support structures
for building engineering
n welding seams repair
we see ourselves today also as an innovative and reliable
partner for various operations in heavy-duty structural steel
engineering, such as the ones in power plant construction,
industrial plant construction and hydraulic steel construction.

Based on our qualications, such as:

n EG certicate in accordance with EN 1090
n manufacturer qualication according to
DIN 18800-7:2008-11 (Class E)
Highway A10 Havel Bridge near Brieslang/Brandenburg n RIL 804, DIN 15018, DIN 19704, DIN 4119, DIN 4132,
DIN V 4133
n DIN-FB 103, DIN-FB 104
n Welding processes according to DIN EN 287-1: 111,
114, 135, 136, 121, 783, 141
We are also allowed to process S690 and CrNi-steel beside
the usual kinds of steel S235 to S460. The DQS certication
according to DIN EN ISO 3834-2 with respect to taking in
consideration welding technology requirements in the
general management system is also available like the
certicate of occupational health and safety management
system according to OHSAS 18001:2007.

Services crane system, Salzgitter

Road B1888 Havel Bridge near Rathenow/Brandenburg

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Steel repairs
In addition to historical and partly also listed buildings, our
services have been used for reinforcement of recent steel
constructions and also for welding seams in highly sensitive
areas, and have been highly valued by our clients. A
systematic quality assurance and exible, prompt reactions
to the requirements of our clients in small as well as large
projects belong to our standard practice. Durability and
longevity of welded and bolted joints are always of
paramount importance.

Bruchweg stadium, Mainz

In order to improve the durability of the weld seams done by

us, our company took part in the research project REFRESH,
whose objective was to extend lifespan of the already
existing and newly welded steel constructions. As a result, a
80 to 100 % increased fatigue strength of the welds is
achieved by using high-frequency peening method HIFIT
(High Frequency Impact Treatment). It is thus possible to
prolong the lifespan of the entire construction by reworking
HIFIT-Method highly stressed weld details. Already completed projects in
the elds of steel bridge construction, crane tracks and
mechanical engineering show that the range of applications
is diverse and that they can even help remedy the known
problems, usually in combination with a classical weld seam
repair.

Old Strelasund Bridge, Stralsund

Welding work on THE SQUAIRE project

Christian Gahl

THE SQUAIRE
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Assembly methods

Lifting of the arch Schnettker Bridge, Dortmund

The development of the steel and composite steel bridge
construction in our company was accompanied by the
demand to bring these steel constructions ourselves to their
designated nal positions. While in the early days we usually
relied on rolling and shifting track systems, nowadays,
modern shifting stations or self-propelled transport modules
are preferably used.
Besides modern welding equipment, we also have, in our
own assembly yard, an extensive equipment inventory for our
assembly processes such as:
n Lifting and shifting unit (HVE), 600 t compressive force
n patented shifting module 6000 KN
n Launching nose with hydraulic lifting table
n Gantry crane system up to 50 t
In 2011, another in-house development, the lift-and-shift
mechanism (HVE) was added to our patented shifting
modules, esteemed for their compact design. It was caused
by the necessity to erect the central arch of the Schnettker
Bridge in Dortmund, which we managed to accomplish in a
very limited space, without disrupting the trafc. We thus now
have a modern piece of equipment, which can horizontally
shift loads of up to 20,000 tonnes, or can be universally used
to lift and erect heavy-duty steel components. We always
ensure the success of our assembly with a thorough
planning, our own assembly equipment and our own
qualied personnel.
Shifting module

n Hydraulic presses / stacking systems up to 5 MN

n Hydraulic drive systems
n Support tower systems up to 6 MN
n Slideways and rollways