![]() ![]() | |
|
|   |
• World-wide Network • Post-tensioning, Stay Cables and Construction Methods • Creative Solutions • Reliable Partner |
|
|
||
VSL is a solution network organised
around locally-based subsidiaries
providing modern and cost-effective
construction technologies, which are
developed and updated by centralised
expert R&D and technical teams.Our aim is always to offer not only the best post-tensioning solutions but also innovative construction techniques, designed to increase site safety, save time, improve durability, and reduce costs. We are always keen to work in partnership with our clients right from conceptual stage and have our design and method engineers working closely with their estimating teams during tender stage. Our main strength is the quality of our highly experienced, multicultural staff. Our Marketing Staff is dedicated to listen and understand our client’s needs and to prepare customised solutions for their projects.We develop new ways of continuously training our experts through e-learning, video- |
learning and annual workshops where
we present our new products,
equipment and techniques.We also
stimulate knowledge-sharing through
our intranet which contains reference
material, management tools and a
dedicated forum where ideas about
best practices are exchanged.Our ultimate goal is to deliver the best quality service to our clients,with top quality construction techniques, backed by our experience and welltrained specialists in design, methods and job site construction.
Subscribing to the philosophy that
what is good today may always be
made better for tomorrow,VSL has
always attracted the most talented
and motivated people, all with
one goal: to be your most valued
construction partner. |
|
|
|
||
|
|
||
| VSL's experience in post-tensioning and related engineering goes back 50 years. VSL operates through 35 subsidiaries as a world-wide network, including 2 production facilities in Spain and China. With 2,400 employees, including 900 engineers and technicians, the group provides technical consultancy and support for the full range of works from project planning (development of preliminary designs, alternative design proposals) to complete final designs, construction engineering and on-site activities. Group turnover was 187 million euros in 2004. |
|
|
|
top page
|
||
|
|
||
| The company has adapted post-tensioning principles to civil structures such as LNG tanks, reservoirs, plants, tunnels, off-shore platforms, concrete floating barges, dams and stay cables. The company has participated in the construction of over one hundred stay cable bridges and VSL's single strand installation system for stay cables offers high fatigue resistance, increased corrosion protection, replaceability strand by strand, and versatility. In addition to post-tensioning and stay cables, the group's scope of works covers rock and soil anchors, stabilized walls, heavy lifting, bearings, repair works, monitoring, geotechnics & deep foundations, formwork systems, precasting and segmental erection launching gantries. |
|
|
|
top page
|
||
|
|
||
| Over the years, VSL has contributed to some of the most prestigious and complex concrete structures. These include the world’s largest concrete barge (the N'Kossa barge in France), the first catenary moored floating platform (the Troll GBS platform in Norway), one of the longest pre-assembled concrete immersed tunnels (MTR 502 in Hong Kong) or the first egg-shape digesters in Singapore (the Kranji Egg), and the first full span bridge in Ductal R (the Seonyudo Footbridge in Seoul) seen as the most innovative ultra-high performance concrete developed in the last ten years worldwide. Intrafor in Hong Kong contributed to the foundations of one of the tallest buildings in the world (Kowloon Station Mega Tower), and one of the largest reclamation projects in Hong Kong (Penny's Bay for Disneyland). |
|
|
|
top page
|
||
|
|
||
| VSL has successfully erected more than three million square metres of bridge deck in the Asia-Pacific region over the past decade. VSL’s Major project division offers skilled and trained staff with a core of 85 bridge specialists, an experienced technical centre, an ability to benchmark new methods, new equipment and new materials; and specialist equipment designed as modular as possible to allow reuse in different configurations. VSL are also committed to offering an innovative contracting approach to focus with the Main Contractor on what is “best for project”- examples of which are the Lok Ma Chau Viaduct project in Hong Kong and the recently completed West Link M7 project in Sydney, Australia. |
|
|
|
top page |
||
| end of this page | ||