Successful MEKit debut

Contractors: MOSER GmbH & Co. KG

The new MEVA Engineering Kit (MEKit) passed its first practical test with flying colours. Using parts from the engineering kit for bespoke applications, two towers were assembled to support a steel truss beam.

Support for a steel truss beam created with no problems

The construction company MOSER GmbH & Co. KG had been commissioned to build the underground garage of a new office building in Karlsruhe. The walls were partly poured over two storeys with heights from about 3 m and partly over a single storey up to about 7 m. This was achieved using formwork and support material from MOSER’s own stock. The walls were produced using the robust heavy-duty formwork Mammut 350 with a full-surface fresh-concrete pressure capacity of 100 kN/m². The system has already proven its worth during numerous MOSER projects.

The basement with the steel truss beam after completion. Photo on next page: An MEP shoring tower can be seen in the background on the right. © Moser

Trouble-free assembly of the MEKit towers
The MOSER construction site team relied for the first time on MEKit, which was delivered to Karlsruhe on a rental basis, for a special application during this project. A steel truss beam that increases the slab’s span like a concrete beam was to be safely supported during the shell construction work and held in place by the in-situ concrete columns.

Once the concrete columns had been constructed and two MEKit support towers set up, the exact height was set using the base and head spindles.

We were surprised how quick and easy it is to assemble and use MEKit.

Site foremen from construction company MOSER GmbH & Co. KG

MEKit and MEP supplement each other
It was now possible to place and secure the steel truss beam on the MEKit towers and the concrete columns. MEVA’s modular MEP shoring tower system was then erected in order to support the construction of the slab. The MEP, which MOSER uses regularly, was also a convincing solution thanks to its simple and rapid assembly. This tried-and-tested system thus optimally complemented the new MEVA Engineering Kit during this project.

photos © Moser