2012 Sponsors and Exhibitors

Associate Sponsors

HYDROMAT

"HYDROMAT"– Ltd has been established in Sofia , Bulgaria on 04.01.1993.

The core business of the company is the waterproofing of Buildings , Underground Structures and Bridges . ‘’HYDROMAT’’- Ltd has been realized app.150000 sqm. different waterproofing systems on the Bulgarian Road and Rail Bridges with a great success.

"HYDROMAT" – Ltd is a member of:

Bulgarian Association for Construction Insulation and Waterproofing. Mr.K.maslev is a Deputy Chairman of the Board Of Directors.
Bulgarian Association for Geotechnical and Tunnel Construction.
ITA –AITES - International Tunnel Association .

Redaelli

Website: www.redaelli.com

Redaelli is a world leading manufacturer of safety critical steel wire ropes for a variety of dynamic and static applications.

The Engineering Division offers specialist design & technical expertise for complete cable solutions to tensile structure applications including cable stayed, tied arch and suspension bridges together with long span lightweight roofs such as stadia, airports, towers and arenas.

Founded in 1819, notable bridge projects successfully delivered to include Storebaelt East Suspension Bridge, the Forth Road Suspension Bridge replacement hanger cables and several iconic Calatrava bridges as well as complex cable net systems for the London Eye Giant Observation Wheel and the Athens 2004 Olympic & Warsaw National Stadia

SILGA

Website: www.silga.es

SILGA is a consulting company specialized in structural engineering projects, focused on civil, industrial and building structures. A staff that includes twelve structural engineers makes it one of the leading companies of its kind in Spain. The main areas or activity are: Construction Projects: Road, Pedestrian and Railway bridges (including High Speed Rail), water treatment plants, underground parkings, subway stations, congress halls and office buildings; On site construction assistance: Assisting on control, problem solving and partial modifications or extensions of the initial project; Project control and supervision, which often involves full recalculation of the structures.

For the Eastern Europe market, SILGA has an association agreement with INGENIA, a Spanish consulting company with three branch offices in Romania from where a better service can be given to projects in the region. Among its clients are FCC, OHL, AZVI, FORD, LUJAN, SERVICES-GES and IDECONSA. Projects have included bridges and building structures

SOFiSTiK AG

Website: www.sofistik.com

SOFiSTiK AG, based in Germany, is a leading developer of non-linear Finite Element Analysis & Design Software. The program portfolio offers solutions for Buildings, Steel Structures, Light Weight Structures, Bridge Design, Geotechnics & Tunnel Engineering and Computational Fluid Dynamics. SOFiSTiK comes with various design-codes as for example EC, BS, SNIP (Russian), Austrian, Australian Standard, BAEL, EHE, DMI, ACI, AASHTO and lots of more. Preprocessing is being offered through AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit Structure, Rhinoceros and a powerful ASCII-based parametric user interface. The processing solvers support 64bit parallelization on Windows and runs also under LINUX. The post processing is available in different languages. This powerful software solution may be used in world-wide projects.

The Spencer Group

Website: www.thespencergroup.co.uk

Bridges represent one of our greatest and most traditional capabilities, with a multitude of projects in our international portfolio. From innovative design and build projects to advanced maintenance and asset management, we thrive on opportunities to solve complex engineering challenges with our forward-thinking approach.

We are world leaders in suspension bridge main cable inspection and dehumidification technologies and have delivered these works throughout the UK and into Europe. As a client focused organisation, we utilise our knowledge and experience to engineer and deliver effective solutions for our customers, utilising our bespoke systems which enable us to deliver a dedicated, open book client relationship throughout.

Stirling Lloyd

Website: www.stirlinglloyd.com

With worldwide experience spanning over 40 years, Stirling Lloyd have been protecting bridges of every design, type and size, in every kind of climate. Our expertise and experience in bridge deck waterproofing and maintenance has led to the successful acquisition of some of the worlds most prestigious and iconic bridge waterproofing contracts.

The company will be exhibiting “Eliminator®”, their MMA spray-applied bridge deck waterproofing system – the global market leader in terms of performance and use, for road and rail bridges including with Gussasphalt and other advanced surfacing systems.

The on-site Stirling Lloyd staff will also be happy to discuss the companies other systems which include tunnel waterproofing membranes, structural waterproofing systems, storage and containment membranes and roof coatings.

Univergom

Website: WWW.UNIVERGOM.COM

Univergom is a company specialised in the manufacture of metal-rubber items for infrastructures. Univergom boasts a vast experience gained over thirty years of operating in the market. Today it offers a full range of supporting elements for buildings and bridges- elastomeric bearings, confined elastomeric pot bearings, base isolation systems- as well as expansion joints, 100% designed and manufactured by Univergom. Thanks to this Univergom meets each and every one of our customers’ requirements, and supports clients at every stage of the process, from the proper sizing of the device up to the installation step. Univergom is ISO 9001 certified and all its products are CE marked as testimony to Univergom high quality standards.

Valbruna

Website: www.reval-stainless-steel.com

Valbruna, founded in 1925, is a private company with 2.500 employees and an annual output of over 180.000 tons of specialty steels.

With production plants in Vicenza, Bolzano and Fort wayne ,(USA), Valbruna is the leader in the production of Stainless steels, High Nickel & Titanium Alloys Long products. The production of stainless steels implies the knowledge of metallurgical techniques, the chemical analysis of heats and mechanical properties tests. Our extensive distribution network is granting a worldwide presence and a continuous feedback with our customers. The reval stainless steel reinforcement product line is a permanent solution to concrete decay, structure safety and continuous maintenance. The benefit of using Reval in concrete constructions is a long expected service life without concrete maintenance due to reinforcement corrosion. Valbruna´s experience to secure concrete durability ensures the best suitable solution for any long life project.

"Valbruna, a company rooted in its past history, making progressively further steps to the future.”

WireCo WorldGroup

Website: www.wirecoworldgroup.com

WireCo WorldGroup, the global leader in wire rope and structural assemblies, can support your unique requirements anywhere in the world. With a Long History as the preeminent supplier of structural cables in North America, we are now extending our expertise to the rest of the world. Our projects include all types of suspension bridges, stadium and convention centre roof support structures and lift bridges. Let us work with you to meet your exacting bridge specifications.

Outokumpu

Website: www.outokumpu.com

Outokumpu is a global leader in stainless steel with the vision to be the undisputed number one. Customers in a wide range of industries use our stainless steel and services worldwide. Being fully recyclable as well as a very strong and durable material duplex stainless steel is one of the key building blocks for sustainable future and the key to long lasting bridge constructions with low maintenance costs.

Outokumpu Stainless in Degerfors, Sweden, is a world-leading producer of tailor-made hot-rolled plates in stainless steel in particular special grades and high strength duplex steels but also prefabricated plates, both cut to size and shape as well as edge-prepared for welding and assembly by the bridge fabricator.

What makes Outokumpu special is total customer focus – all the way, from R&D to delivery. You have the idea. We offer world-class stainless steel, technical know-how and support. We activate your ideas.