Post-tensioning system,
Wind power
Windpark Mainz-Hechtsheim
million kilowatt hours per year, supplies 3,000 average households and saves over 7,000 t of CO2 emissions. BBV Systems was responsible for the prestressing steel work on this and the other wind power towers in the Mainz-Hechtsheim wind farm. The tendons were prefabricated in the BBV factory in Bobe [...] after the tendons were embedded in the concrete towers, a team from BBV pre-tensioned the tendons and injected them with mortar. Internal tower prestress[...]