Research and Development

VFT-WIB® construction method developed by SSF Ingenieure

Girder system for superstructures with a high level of prefabrication and external reinforcement. Girders for an integral road bridge near Vigaun / Austria: 3 x 26.15 m span width, prefabricated rolled girders, composite dowels in fin-cut design ½ HEM 600 x 399, grade S 460

Application development

Linking steps to reach creativity

Research and development are at the basis of the continuous optimisation of buildings and infrastructure constructions in the view of their efficiency, security and sustainability and progressive design. The technical opportunities resulting from the combination of new construction materials, calculation methods and changing construction procedures are enormous.

To fulfil the clients’ as well as the construction companies’ individual wishes and to satisfy the presented requirements in an optimized way, it is important to know and master not only the current construction methods and procedures but also to continuously improve and develop them. At SSF Ingenieure we have established our own department for application development which dedicates its work to subjects and questions concerning further and new development of construction methods and procedures independently from the daily constraints. One of the outstanding examples for the development of a new construction method at our company is the VFT® construction method showing consequent implementation of an idea to make it ready for the market. Moreover, development and constant improvement of certain techniques and procedures take place in our operative departments in various means.

The first patent for bridge launching 25 years ago – meanwhile state-of-theart –, top-down construction for railway bridges and under compressed air for tunnel construction, several German and European patents for maglev tracks or patent applications for mass-spring-systems and numerous utility model registrations (e.g. VFT-WIB®, VTR®, light noise protection installations), all these innovations show that we keep our fingers on the pulse and do not stop to improve existing technologies and to achieve innovations by constant modifications. Linking sometimes small but sustainable steps leads to creativity.