Client: Stade de Lyon Construction (Vinci)
The first stepped beams to support the terraced stands appear above ground level.
The Atlantic Bridge (Panama)
Client: PASA (Vinci)
SAMT Ingénierie are participating in the methodology and technical assistance for the implementation of concrete reinforcement of the future Atlantic bridge over the Panama canal. It will be the largest multi-stayed concrete viaduct in the world with a total length of 4,6 km.
The initial works consist in pre-fabricating the rebar cages for the uprights.
Tokamak ITER (Cadarache, France)
Client: Groupement Vinci/Ferrovial/Razel
SAMT Pose has just won an important project: to undertake the principal building housing the experimental nuclear fusion reactor ITER (Cadarache, France).
Factory for the production of sea-defense acropodes for the NRL (new coast road) (Reunion island)
Client: GTOI
Korail Armatures is proud to supply the first concrete reinforcement for the new coast road on the Reunion island. They are the uprights for the very high factory building which will produce the sea-defence acropodes
Jules Horowitz reactor - CEA (Cadarache, France)
Client: Razel-Bec
Following the positioning of the steel liner which serves as formwork for the reactor building dome, we are fixing the reinforcement to join the circular wall of the containment to the dome using a vast number of Hérisson®® couplers.
Lyon Stadium (France)
Lyon Stadium (France)
Client: Stade de Lyon Construction (Vinci)
Having started the foundations in october 2013, the first uprights appear above ground level.
High-speed train line Brittany-Loire (France)
Client: Eiffage TP
After 10 months work on the F & G sections, we have delivered and fixed 60% of the 6000 tons of reinforcement. The abbutments of the major structures are complete and we have started to fix the cages of the infill of the combination structures.
Below, the viaduct over the river Sartre close to Le Mans.
An article from the newspaper La Provence 9 september 2013
Armaturier (steel reinforcement specialist. A name which at first means nothing to you, yet it was born in Provence. Dreamt up by Edgard Thirion who, as head of the family business SAMT based in Saint-Chamas, had had enough of people speaking about bridges and other engineered structures never mentionning their skeletons : the reinforcement steel. A craft more ingenious than one imagines as it is all about structural calculations.
Bridge over the river Saint-Étienne (Reunion island)
The Armaturiers (reinforcement specialists) in Reunion Island signed off a beautiful structure on the island, by a Vinci Construction subsidiaries, the bridge over the river Saint-Etienne.
A further recognition for this unknown and futuristic craft.
For 32 months, from March 2010 to November 2012, the SAMT Ocean Indien reinforcement specialists had worked on this imposant project, which connects the two towns of Saint-Louis and Saint-Pierre.
“We have used 4020 tons of steel reinforcement, from the foundations to the road base (all the reinforcement coming from our factory in Le Port). And also some 25 km of inspections hatches in the foundations and some 20 km concrete cooling pipes. This represents more than 16000 hours of work in our factory plus 70000 hours on site. The equivalent of 16 people working full time for 32 months. The result fulfilled everyone’s ambition. The Armaturiers, even though their work is “buried” in concrete, feed off a real passion for these bridges and viaducts, always being exceptional technical and human challenge.” said Frederic Thirion, Managing Director of SAMT Ocean Indien.
A technical and human challenge
A 9 spans bridge (2 abuttments and 8 uprights) 695m long, variable width from 21,70m at Saint-Pierre to 34,15m at Saint-Louis.
Download the press release (in french)
“Gouzous” on the bridge over the river Saint-Étienne (Reunion island)
A small blink from the street-artist and tagger Jace, on the trial upright of the bridge over the river Saint-Etienne recently opened on the Reunion island. This trial upright will not be demolished but will become a free-climbing wall.
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