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Variable Roofing-system For The Step-by-step Covering Of The Industrial Waste Deposit Plant At Bielefeld-Herford

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

24

Pages

10

Published

1996

Size

672 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/MRS960161

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

W. Renner

Abstract

The task was to develop a roofing, system for a waste deposit plant with a total area of 350.000 qm in order to cover it step-by-step over a period of 30 years by dividing the deposit plant into 8 phases depending on the frequency of use. Therefore EPL suggested a pneumatic construction for which an air-stabilized membrane construction is anchored by an earth-filled foundation ring. This construction covers in the first phase an area of about 110.000 qm with a totally clear span structure. 2. Reason for roofing of a waste disposal plant ? Normally waste is deposited on waste disposal plants. Their basic ground sealing avoids the polution of the ground water by perculating water. The perculating water is collected and cleaned in a special treatment process; the

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