VÖGELE Site Reports
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June 2010
Two SUPER 1800-2 with SprayJet Module Pave Thin Overlay of Noise-Absorbing Asphalt
Rehabilitating a stretch of the A 9 motorway in Bavaria, Germany.
May 2010
SUPER Infrastructure for Nigeria
Six SUPER 2100‑2 pavers do their bit in several road construction projects.
April 2010
VÖGELE Laser Receiver for Pinpoint Landing in Terms of Evenness
Construction of the New Quito International Airport is currently the largest building project in Ecuador. The airport operator has invested USD 600 million in the modern infrastructure, and the requirements on evenness of the runway and taxiways were every bit as high as the sum involved.
March 2010
70% Higher Laydown Rate Thanks to NAVITRONIC Plus®
Above all on airport sites, time is a critical factor. The faster a job needs to be completed, the smoother aviation operations can proceed. The time saved on reconstruction of the runway at Zweibrücken Airport was particularly impressive.
February 2010
High Laydown Rate of 4,200 Tonnes per Shift
The job site on the German A 48 motorway between Ochtendung and Mayen was a master stroke of productivity: a SUPER 2100-2 worked across a width up to 12.5m at a top pave speed of 4.5m/min.
February 2010
VISION 5200-2 Defines New Standards
Ohio State University Airport in the USA looks back on a long tradition, having already served as a training facility for military and civilian pilots since as far back as 1943. Reconstruction of the asphalt pavement was called for to ensure that flight safety could be guaranteed in the future, too. The supreme requirement in this respect was maximum evenness of the pavement. And this is why contractor Shelly & Sands Inc. opted for a VISION 5200-2.
January 2010
VÖGELE Paver Provides for Perfect Evenness
Test drivers and vehicle developers will soon be able to make tyres scream when they test new vehicle components to the limit at the “Aldenhoven Vehicle Testing Centre” near Aachen, Germany.
December 2009
Combination of Asphalt and Cement for a High Load-bearing Capacity
When it came to carrying out pavement reconstruction of its central bus station, the municipality of Dusseldorf (Germany) decided to strike out in a new direction.
November 2009
VÖGELE Paver Achieves Maximum Precompaction
Well-founded know-how is also needed for highly cost-effective and high-quality paving of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC). This has been demonstrated in Indianapolis, USA, where RCC and asphalt were paved using the combination of SUPER 2100-2 paver and AB 600 High Compaction Screed in TP2 version.
November 2009
Special Features: Versatile, Excellent Manoeuvrability, Powerful
VÖGELE launched their new pavers in the compact equipment class roughly two years ago. Since their debut, the tracked SUPER 1100-2 and SUPER 1300-2 pavers, as well as the wheeled SUPER 1103-2 and SUPER 1303-2 models, have gained a firm footing in jobs that call for a lean machine design with strong performance figures.
October 2009
InLine Pave® Train Widens Highway While Open to Traffic
The innovative VÖGELE technology permitting the paving of binder and surface courses in a single pass is becoming the method of choice on ever more job sites when it comes to cost-efficiency and quality.
September 2009
Reconstruction of Motorway in Full-Road Width Across 12m
When reconstructing a 5km stretch of the A 61 motorway in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a SUPER 2100-2 paved two new lanes including hard shoulder in full-road width.
August 2009
SUPER 1800-2 with SprayJet Module Speeds up Paving and Cuts Costs
Although the contract marked the first ever use of the SUPER 1800-2 with SprayJet Module in the Netherlands, the team easily got to grips with the VÖGELE paver right from the start.
July 2009
Modular Machine Design Plays out its Strengths
New construction of the B 178 (n) Federal highway near Löbau in the German Free State of Saxony was extraordinary in many respects. When it came to paving the 5.9km stretch of the highway, hot on hot, the VÖGELE InLine Pave® train displayed all its advantages.
June 2009
VÖGELE Open the Throttle for the Formula 1
All told, the project in Abu Dhabi involves laying some 950,000 tonnes of crushed stone for base course and surfacing an area of 750,000m² with 210,000 tonnes of asphalt.
May 2009
Yellow Asphalt for a Dash of Colour
It was a lucky coincidence that just at that time, the contractor took delivery of a brand-new SUPER 1303-2 from VÖGELE’s compact equipment class.
April 2009
5.2km of Motorway Rehabilitated in Just Four Night Shifts
With InLine Pave®, VÖGELE have developed a concept allowing to reduce traffic obstruction to a minimum.
March 2009
SUPER 1800-2 Rehabilitates Runway and Landing Strip at Airport in Iceland
On the job site in Iceland, the use of NAVITRONIC Plus® yielded major advantages: without 3D machine control, reference wires would have had to be installed.
February 2009
Construction of Motorway without Tensioned Wire but with Swiss Precision
NAVITRONIC Plus® the 3D System for Machine Control, guides the SUPER 2100-2 towards highly accurate paving results.
January 2009
SUPER Power for the “Autoroute Transmaghrébine”
Some 70 machines from the WIRTGEN Group are involved in the world’s currently largest road construction project.
November 2008
“Workhorses” Master Mammoth Project
The first task involved placing and compacting base course comprising a volume of 800,000 tonnes of CTB (cement-treated base). This job proved to be a tough challenge for two VÖGELE SUPER 2100-2 pavers and numerous HAMM Series 3000 rollers.
September 2008
The SUPER Pavers’ Fastest Lap in South-East Asia
VÖGELE pavers hold the pole position and resurface the new Formula 1 circuit in Singapore with a special mix. These machines fulfil strictest requirements when constructing race tracks.
August 2008
Olympic Games: The 1,000m Sprint of the VÖGELE Pavers
Successful mission of SUPER pavers in Beijing. They resurfaced the 4th Ring Road in the vicinity of the Bird's Nest, Beijing's National Stadium.
July 2008
Paving at Top Speed
Speed is essential on every race track. And that was also true for the extensive rehabilitation work on the Automotodrom Brno circuit carried out in a record-breaking six weeks.
July 2008
Easy and Accurate: Grade and Slope Control with 2 Big MultiPlex Skis
How to build a road true to line and level without an existing reference ? The Big MultiPlex Ski, VÖGELE’s sensor system for grade and slope control, was fitted to a SUPER 1900-2 and helped achieve a perfect paving result when rehabilitating a rural road in Germany.
June 2008
Clear the Ring on the A99
Two SUPER 1800-2 with SprayJet Module rehabilitated one of Germany‘s busiest motorways. A pavement preservation contract was awarded and thin overlay paved on spray seal, hot on hot.
May 2008
NAVITRONIC® Plus Cuts Costs and Boosts Productivity
When closing the gap on the German A26 motorway by new construction of a section in the Hamburg area, NAVITRONIC® Plus, the 3D Machine Control System offered by VÖGELE, performed excellently.
April 2008
SUPER 1803-2 Paves the Way into Latter-Day Noah’s Ark
A SUPER 1803-2 played a crucial role in the construction of a latter-day Noah’s Arc on Spitsbergen. The “Svalbard Global Seed Vault” was built in the permafrost soil of the Arctic archipelago as a depository for plant seeds that is intended to preserve the biodiversity of our planet.
March 2008
SUPER 800 Enhances Park with Coloured Asphalt
In Leinefelde, where the River Leine has it source, a SUPER 800 carried out a landscaping contract. The small VÖGELE paver was on the scene to surface pathways with yellow asphalt around a lake in the new recreational area.
March 2008
Perfect Paving Result Despite Tight Conditions
A SUPER 800 was on the scene on a provisional bridge adjacent to VÖGELE’s main plant in Mannheim, Germany. The small machine paved narrow asphalt strips between tramway tracks.
February 2008
Staying in Line Around Roundabout
In road construction, building roundabouts is a considerable challenge that calls for the very best equipment. However, with the right paver technology and site logistics, jobs of this kind can be completed without difficulty, even when tight radii are required.
January 2008
Tracked SUPER 1300-2 on the “Vulkan Cycle Path” in Germany
The first job for the SUPER 1300-2 was on the 93km long “Vulkan Cycle Path” in Hesse, Germany. The brand-new tracked paver resurfaced a section of the popular cycle path 60km northeast of Frankfurt/Main.
January 2008
Successful Debut for the SUPER 1303-2 in Cremona, Italy
One of the first applications of the SUPER 1303-2 in Italy was in Cremona. The paving team used the wheeled paver for placing 3cm wearing course on a job site in the harbour of the river Po.
January 2008
Brilliant Premiere for the SUPER 1103-2 in Lombardy
The Italian contractor used a SUPER 1103-2 for surfacing a car park and sidewalks in a residential neighbourhood. The small paver impressed by high productivity, excellent pavement quality and outstanding manoeuvrability.
January 2008
SUPER 1103-2 Rehabilitates Carriageway in a Single Shift in England
The British contractor's paving team in Leicestershire, UK, put their new wheeled SUPER 1103-2 paver through its paces on the very first job.
January 2008
Super Quiet SUPER 1103-2 Paid Utmost Respect to its Surroundings
The surfacing of pathways in a graveyard in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England was the first job the British contractor carried out with the new SUPER 1103-2. This was a job which demanded the utmost respect for the surroundings, so that the super quiet VÖGELE paver was the ideal candidate.
December 2007
Paving Thin Wearing Course under the Midnight Sun in Swedish Lapland
Stretching some 1,600km from Helsingborg in southern Sweden to just short of the Arctic Circle, the E4 is Sweden's second longest highway. The fantastic landscape provided the perfect backdrop for the new VÖGELE spray paver of Swedish contractor PEAB.
December 2007
SUPER 1800-2 Spray Paver Keeps Carriageway Clean in Southern Norway
The fortress of Frederiksten in Halden in the south of Norway, overlooking the city and the fjord, makes for a majestic sight. In the summer of 2007, Swedish contractor Skanska carried out resurfacing works on a 5km stretch of the "Rijksweg" RW 22 highroad.
November 2007
The tracked SUPER 2100-2 Places Super Quiet Overlay on Motorway
The volume of traffic on Germany’s motorways is growing from year to year and with it the associated noise emission. At the same time, new residential areas are being built ever closer to carriageways and motorways.
October 2007
10 VÖGELE Pavers Build a 90km Stretch on Europe’s Largest Road Construction Site
Poland’s A1 motorway currently represents the largest road construction project in Europe. RoadNews first reported on this project in Issue 09, when asphalt works had just begun. Great progress has since been made on the first 90km long stretch of the motorway.
September 2007
Extreme Paving on a Steep Slope of 31 Degrees
The project of a hydro power station in the Chinese province of Henan is extreme from every point of view: a giant 3 million cubic metres of water will turn turbine generators achieving a combined output of 1,200MW of electricity.
July 2007
SUPER 700 Proves Above Par
SUPER 700, a small paver developed and produced by VÖGELE especially for the US market, demonstrated its versatility when surfacing pathways on a golf course.
June 2007
VÖGELE Actively Supports Up and Coming Sports Talent
The hockey team of Mannheim Athletic and Sports Club called and VÖGELE answered. A paving team delegated by VÖGELE built an absolutely even asphalt base in a new hockey hall to provide the youth hockey team with better training conditions.
April 2007
Night Shift at the Airport
Four SUPER pavers rehabilitated the runway at Brussels Charleroi Airport, Belgium. The 20-year-old asphalt pavement was successively repaired over a period of several nights.
March 2007
Road Construction in the Desert Sands
Boom Construction Co. from Doha relied on a wheeled VÖGELE SUPER 1803-1 paver for building a municipal arterial road in Qatar.
February 2007
WIRTGEN Group Power for Europe's Largest Road Building Project
Since mid-2006, Skanska-NDI, a Swedish-Polish joint venture, has been undertaking construction of the first 90km stretch of a motorway that will traverse the whole of Poland in just a couple of years. This is the largest road construction project currently underway in Europe.
December 2006
"InLine Pave" Saves 2 Days on Contract for Pavement Rehabilitation in Single-Lane Width
The German A61 motorway leading from the Hockenheim junction to the border with the Netherlands is a traffic route carrying a particularly high number of heavy goods vehicles. The enormous axle loads of HGV traffic had caused deep rutting on the right-hand lane which now was in need of rehabilitation.
November 2006
Manual Work Banned, SUPER 800 Planned
For works on the crest of the embankment in Cologne, Germany, VBS opted for a small VÖGELE SUPER 800 paver to get the job done and was awarded the contract.
September 2006
Small SUPER 800 Ideal for Placing Crushed Stone, Chippings and Asphalt
This year for the first time, Mannheim-based JOSEPH VÖGELE AG is going to use the GaLaBau exhibition as a platform to present two of their machines specially to contractors from the garden and landscaping sector.
September 2006
Last Stop Before the North Pole
Flights from Oslo and Tromsø are the most important link to Norway's Svalbard islands, which lie north of the Arctic Circle. Aircraft take off and land on the world’s most northerly runway located near the largest settlement on the group of islands, the town of Longyearbyen.
September 2006
Power for Paris
The A1 motorway around the Villepinte exit to the north of Paris is well known to professionals from the building industry, as close to this place the "Intermat" fair opens its doors every 3 years.
August 2004
The Première on the A48 Motorway, Germany, was a Success
A VÖGELE SUPER 2500 paves in full-road width and shortens construction period by 3 weeks.
July 2004
Approximate Temperature 130°C: SUPER 2500 Paves Low-Temperature Asphalt
A SUPER 2500 was on the scene on the A7 motorway near Schleswig, Germany, when the contractor Eurovia built a 5.6km long section in record time.QUICK FINDER
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