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Temporary & Permanent Precast Vehicle Restraint Systems

Our Concrete is Flexible and Rigid.

Introduction 2

Company Profile 3

DELTA BLOC International GmbH 3

Kirchdorfer Industries Group 6

DELTABLOC® Business Model 7

Research & development 7

More than 170 crash tests 7

Production 8

Installation 8

Innovation Determines Growth 9

Predicting return of investments 9

First to market 9

Developing markets 9

Decentralization: Adding value to the region 9

Latest Innovations 10

New business areas 10

Awarded innovations 11

Product Focus 12

DB 80 F-Shape 12

One product for TEMPORARY & PERMANENT application 13

Systems with highest containment H4b 15

Specials Applications 16

DELTABLOC® | We develop safety. 2 | 17

Introduction Vehicle restraint systems made of concrete seem to have a wrong reputation. Due to the assumption concrete safety barriers are always hard and inflexible they appear to be dangerous for smaller passenger cars.

After more than 25 years of development in the sector of precast concrete vehicle restraint systems the DELTABLOC® safety barriers are standing in the forefront of passive traffic safety - for passenger cars as well as for heavy goods vehicles.

Thus the current product portfolio contains systems with

lowest impact severity level ASI A for optimal passenger safety

highest breakthrough protection with containment level H4b and

rigid systems with the lowest deflection W1

DELTABLOC® stands for smart technology with unexpected performance and new efficiency of precast concrete - tested according to the European Standard EN 1317 in the most reputable test houses.

The new performance of DELTABLOC® safety barriers defines the state-of-the-art in passive traffic safety – simply because

"Our Concrete is Flexible and Rigid".

Dr. techn. Thomas Edl Managing Director


Company Profile

DELTA BLOC International GmbH

DELTA BLOC International GmbH, founded in 2000, is a leading developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art precast concrete vehicle restraint systems. Vehicle restraint systems are safety devices for roads, which redirect veered vehicles controlled back on the road or motorway lanes and protect even heavy trucks reliably from breakthrough.

At the headquarters in Sollenau in the Eastern part of Austria and five international branch offices, 60 employees support production facilities and distribution partners in more than 30 countries across the globe.

Since DELTA BLOC’s foundation, more than 170 crash tests were conducted. More than 30 patents and numerous trademarks were registered or are filed for application worldwide. Within that period, the company produced together with its international partners more than 3000km of the innovative safety barriers. This would almost equal the distance from Vienna, Austrian to Tel Aviv in Israel! Currently, the yearly output is approx. 500km. In addition, a rental pool of more than 450km for temporary workzone protection is available throughout Europe.

Based on this know-how and the experiences gathered during the last decades, DELTA BLOC is nowadays internationally acknowledged as a competency center for innovative traffic safety solutions.


Facts & figures

Despite the financial crises and as a consequence tremendously falling investments in infrastructure, DELTA BLOC could achieve remarkable results in 2013.

Compared to its competitors who have been struggling with existence, company results have shown after an outrageous high in 2009 followed by the stagnation of infrastructure investments continuous growth again.

60 employees provide worldwide support to distribution and production partners regarding

sales & marketing

national technical requirements

production start-up

project offering

order processing

installation procedures

etc.

Experience generates safety

In 1985 the Austrian manufacturer of prefabricated concrete components, MABA, started producing concrete safety barriers. After implementation of the draft for the European Norm EN 1317 (part 1 and 2) in 1993 the first impact tests with manned vehicles were conducted. Since 1994 impact tests have been conducted with crash test dummies in remote controlled vehicles.

With the foundation of DELTA BLOC Europa GmbH as an independent company in 2000, distribution was expanded into the neighboring country Germany through license partners. By as early as 2002, seven partners were manufacturing the modern and continuously improving DELTABLOC® vehicle restraint systems.

With further partners all over Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and even Australia, DELTA BLOC Europa GmbH was renamed into DELTA BLOC International GmbH in 2010.

MABA Fertigteilindustrie GmbH, 1930

MABA Fertigteilindustrie GmbH, 1984


Today, DELTA BLOC is one of the leading developers and licensors of precast vehicle restraint systems with 5 subsidiaries worldwide:

DELTA BLOC Deutschland GmbH, Germany

DELTA BLOC Nederland B.V., Netherlands

DELTA BLOC France SAS

DELTA BLOC UK Ltd.

DELTA BLOC South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

Only recently, DELTA BLOC Deutschland GmbH celebrated solemnly the inauguration of its new premises in Bavaria. The 15-member team offers on almost 6000sqm including a hall for necessary maintenance measures complete services in work site protection.

DELTABLOC

® Team in Germany, May 2013

DELTABLOC® on the Intertraffic Amsterdam, 2016


Kirchdorfer Industries Group

Quality does not just happen by coincidence but is the result of expertise.

3 Divisions „We truly value all that we have established, Cement, Construction Minerals, actively endeavor to shape the present, Precast Concrete Components thereby creating a sound basis taking advantage of synergies for a successful future.”

1,500 Employees a wide range of knowledge

13 countries global business activities

125 years of experience and expertise Mag. Erich Frommwald CEO, KIRCHDORFER Group

Divisions

The building blocks for your success: We deliver solutions.

Kirchdorfer Fertigteilholding GmbH

Precast Concrete Components and Prefab Houses: 23 subsidiaries | 12 countries | 940 employees

This division includes the production of system components for structural and civil engineering, road infrastructure, railway construction, environmental engineering, and electrical installations and telecommunications.

An in-house research and development department at the headquarters in Austria fuels innovative quality to conquer new markets and increase market growth.

DELTA BLOC International GmbH is a member of the experienced Precast Concrete Division.


DELTABLOC® Business Model The core of the entire DELTABLOC® product range consists of the patented tension bar, the unique coupling, and innovative damping elements placed between the barriers. Therefore, the modern DELTABLOC® system provides the needed flexibility in combination with reliable break-through prevention. The range of the DELTABLOC® safety barriers provides solutions for all containment levels and ensures a soft impact behavior for passenger cars.

Research & development

Based on demands, new products are developed to meet current standards and norms on individual markets.

Together with the experienced in-house research and development department at the headquarters in Austria new vehicle restraint systems have been successfully developed since 1985. In cooperation with technical universities DELTABLOC® constantly expands its development know-how.

More than 170 crash tests

Prototypes are manufactured based on planned results by experienced partner companies. Impact tests are carried out on the prototypes to show their compliances with the demands.

An impact takes place in fractions of seconds – data recording and analysis becomes a huge challenge. Therefore, crash tests are carried out only at the most reputable test houses such as the TÜV in Germany, an independent technical inspection association.

R&D department, designing new products

Crash tests at the TÜV in Munich, Germany

Reliable laboratories for exact measurements

900kg | 100km/h | 20° 1300kg | 80km/h | 8° 1500kg | 110km/h | 8° 10000kg | 70km/h | 8°

16000kg | 80km/h | 20° 38000kg | 65km/h | 20° 38000kg | 65km/h | 20°


Production

Currently, the DELTABLOC® network consists of more than 30 production partners world-wide.

Consistent and traceable quality from all licensed production partners is guaranteed by the CE certification process which is obligatory within the European Union. Factories are inspected internally as well as by external auditors.

Outside Europe, DELTABLOC® experts take over this inspection to guarantee the well-known DELTABLOC® quality world-wide.

Licensees benefit from the DELTABLOC® know-how and experiences gathered:

In-depth knowledge to license partner production staff about products, production planning and start-up is provided by extensive trainings.

Installation

When realizing projects, the license partner delivers the safety barrier directly to the construction site. Based on the dense partner network, transportation distances are kept to a minimum.

The flexible DELTABLOC® systems are installed free-standing on compacted gravel without the need for anchoring. Elements are displaced by crane, positioned on the ground and connected with the patented coupling.

This simple installation method of the free-standing DELTABLOC® safety barriers allows high installation speeds of up to 2500m per 8 hour shift.

Production partner MABA, Austria

Installation of DB 65S in the Netherlands

Installation DB 100S in Iceland


Innovation Determines Growth An impact takes place in fractions of seconds - the recording of forces and the effective analysis of the impact event to optimize the product is accordingly difficult. The extensive expertise of DELTABLOC® which is based on more than 170 crash tests showed in the recent developments full advantage.

Predicting return of investments

The department R&D is located in Kirchdorfer Industries Group where know-how and experiences have been collected throughout the whole value chain - from gravel to prefabricated houses. Hence, DELTABLOC® has access to exceptional know-how, laboratory and testing equipment as well as various calculation models for impact simulation in-house, inside the corporation.

As crash tests at reputable testing houses are very cost-intensive, extensive pretesting is an important and essential factor to control costs and above all, predict success precisely.

First to market

DELTA BLOC is specialized in the development of state-of-the-art safety barrier solutions which can be realized worldwide on every scale. The strategic approach to delivering innovations first to market is of great importance to embrace the competitive advantage, especially in a niche segment. This has been already confirmed by several patented systems which have been verifiable copied.

Additionally, as a technology leader DELTABLOC® bears the responsibility to its partners to facilitating success with expertise and service in the long-term.

Developing markets

As national regulations often vary from the European Standard or even have a different legal base outside Europe, DELTABLOC® especially focuses on adding value to its clients by developing optimal solutions to meet market specific demands.

However, with the expansion of the European Union in the previous years and the years to come, the national implementations of highly developed markets such as Germany serve as role model. These markets are strategic markets for DELTABLOC® to develop state-of-the-art technology that further supports the development of safety standards in markets with a technological backlog or the absence of a national regulation. Subsidiaries are located in those key-markets.

Decentralization: Adding value to the region

The international grow strategy is based on the concept of licensing. The decentralization of production has several advantages in the immediate environment of the production partner:

Short distances to road construction sites reduce not only transportation costs remarkably but also lead to less emission.

Raw materials, labour, revenues and an organization’s profit remain in the region. The added value in the region of production drives local economy and labour market.

By the know-how transfer to markets with a technological backlog or the absence of a national regulation, the added value to these regions increase local entrepreneurship, labour and hence economy.


Latest Innovations

Conventional vehicle restraint systems include the massive and rigid in-situ concrete barriers which react “harder” in the case of impact with less deflection but bear dangerous consequences for the passenger. DELTABLOC® has always been convinced that the technology of the future for road safety lays in the economical production of high performing vehicle restraint systems.

The combination of rigid & soft impact behavior at the same time has been an unachievable target so far. DELTABLOC® put all efforts in developing ground connection methods for its flexible safety barriers to approach this ambitious target with the following achievement:

The 20 year old technology of the common “in-situ STEP 90” concrete barrier was totally reworked and further developed to a new barrier concept with the rigid performance of in-situ and the soft impact behavior of precast safety barriers.

Crash test dummie after impact

Production DELTABLOC® in-situ concrete barrier

New business areas

Next to its core competence, the development of modern vehicle restraint systems, DELTABLOC® expands in the new branches noise protection & urban safety with its innovation strategy.


Awarded innovations

SETRA Innovation Award 2007 for the integrated noise barrier system DELTABLOC® DB LSW

France

Austrian Export Award 2010 category “industry and crafts”

Austria

Nomination Lower Austrian Innovation Award 2012 for the cost-effective and highly efficient anchoring unit DELTABLOC® Absorption link

Austria

Karl Ritter von Ghega Award 2012 for the noise barrier system PHONOBLOC® with highest absorption, economical design and landscape architecture as well as an outstanding “enviro”-balance

Austria

British Precast Innovation Award 2012 for the DELTABLOC® precast concrete road safety barrier project in South Wales

United Kingdom

Nomination Austrian Innovation Award 2013

Austria

VINCI Innovation Award 2013 for the world new in-situ concrete barrier system EP 80

France

Nomination European Business Award 2014 in the category UKTI Award for Innovation

European Union

Hidden Champions 3.0 by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce

Austria


Product Focus

DB 80 F-Shape

The DB 80 F-Shape was specifically designed for markets, where the "Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware" (MASH) is the relevant testing standard applied.

The DB 80 F-Shape has been successfully tested according to the MASH Test Level 3 (TL-3).

With the patented DELTABLOC® coupling system the DB 80 F-Shape allows a slight tilting of the impact energy in case of heavy impacts.

Main features

temporary and permanent use no concrete foundation needed no fixation to the ground fast installation damaged elements can be replaced easily

Technical specifications

TL1 TL2 TL3 TL4 TL5 TL6


One product for TEMPORARY & PERMANENT application

The efficient DB „2-in-1“ method

DELTABLOC® semi-rigid barriers are also crash-tested for temporary applications. Prior to being placed and anchored in their final position, the semi-rigid barriers are used as free-standing and flexible workzone protection.

designed for permanent containment level H2 additionally tested free-standing for N2 or T3 ideal for project cost optimisation tried and tested for temporary and permanent application

Example: The multitalented DB 80F

As a temporary, moveable safety barrier, DB 80F provides containment level T3 with a minimum working width of W2. But when installed permanently, all DB “2-in-1” systems show the true breadth of their performance:

elimination of transport costs lower rental or purchase costs fast installation low maintenance high reliability and flexibility for planning usable as a temporary safety barrier in future construction projects

DELTABLOC® offers several systems featuring DB “2-in-1“safety barriers for efficient road construction.


High-Containment Barriers

High-Containment Barriers are the best and safest choice in critical areas. They are ideal for the protection of workzones or temporary hazards with increased heavy vehicle traffic. The best and safest choice in critical areas when rerouting traffic lanes and at the approach to construction sites.

DELTABLOC® High-Containment Barriers are crash-tested free-standing without ground anchors or pins and can be also used in permanent application.

Achieving small deflections at highest containment level impacts is truly the supreme discipline for flexible barriers.

The references in this class DB 80 and DB 100

The flexible DB series is the most versatile product group in the DELTABLOC® range. They are often used for permanent applications but unveil their true all-rounder nature when protecting workzones.

the flexible DB 80 - H1 | W4 | ASI B the massive DB 100 - H4a & H4b | W6 | ASI B


Systems with highest containment H4b

The European Standard EN 1317 defines as the most stringent criteria containment level H4b. In this class, safety barriers are crash-tested to withstand impact and breakthrough as specified below:

Crash Test Vehicle type total vehicle

mass (kg) impact speed

(km/h) impact

angle (°) required for

containment levels

TB 11 passenger car 900 100 20 H4b

TB 81 HGV 38 000 65 20 H4b, L4b

Crash test requirements according to EN 1317-2

Precast concrete safety barriers with containment level H4b are especially applied on motorway sections that require special protection of traffic users as well as the expensive road designs itself such as bridges and of course road workers in construction sites.

Permanent precast concrete barriers in the median

To meet required H4b level in the central reservation for longer stretches, DELTABLOC® offers various systems in double-row and single-row application with the unique features

reliable and proven coupling system optimized profile geometry free-standing and flexible fast installation low maintenance costs

DB 100 double-row application H4b, Austria DB 100S double-row application, Austria

DB 120S single-row application, Italy DB 100 LSW-M in Slovenia


Permanent precast concrete barriers on bridges

Besides the usual safety features, a bridge barrier has to handle much more stringent conditions. Today, it is a safety standard that higher containment levels are required especially when there is danger for third parties. With DELTABLOC® Bridge Barriers you ensure ultimate breakthrough prevention and significant reduction of impact loads.

The DB 100AS-R is designed to absorb most of the impact energy within the chain of elements. They are not anchored directly to the bridge deck, and thus the impact stress to the bridge structure is reduced to a minimum

reliable and proven coupling system integrated hydraulic and mechanical expansion joints flexible without anchoring proven edge beam load reduction by approx. 2/3 in case of impact no heavy anchoring to the bridge deck

DB 100AS-R in Germany DB 100AS-R in Germany

Specials Applications

Especially in refurbishment or lane widening projects the safety barrier must deal with special challenges. Through years of experience on major road projects worldwide DELTABLOC® offers numerous standard solutions:

SafeGate ECP emergency crossing points for all DELTABLOC® Median Barriers light post integration for both, precast and in-situ median bespoke precast elements for the integration of foundations or tunnel portals

DELTABLOC® SafeGate

In case of emergency or regular maintenance it might be necessary to open the median in minutes. Two people can move 12m of concrete median precast barriers in less than 15 minutes without heavy tools. The SafeGate option is available for all precast median barriers – certified for H2 and H4b.

open the median in minutes no tools required certified for H2 and H4b


Integrated light pole solutions

Sometimes it is necessary to have light posts in the median. If there is not enough room for a two-row setup of barriers the light pole can be integrated in the barrier.

designed to resist heavy impacts up to H4b designed for impact severity ASI B reliable fixation for heavy wind loads

Special precast elements

Often median barriers must connect into vertical flat wall faces such as tunnel portals or impactable pier foundations. To create a smooth transition from the original barrier profile to the given geometry DELTABLOC® uses enhanced precast concrete production methods and a great pool of dedicated moulds.

high quality precast production uncomplicated delivery and installation time saving

Sollenau, 1 August 2016

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