Innovation in machinery and auxiliary equipment

May 25, 2021

OHL is constantly innovating in machinery and auxiliary equipment to optimize its construction processes around the world. The following projects provide just a few examples of this:

  • Integrated rail welding train fabricated for the execution of the Makkah-Madinah High Speed Line (Saudi Arabia).
  • Uniform coarse aggregate spreader designed for the dust mitigation project in Lake Owens in California (USA).
  • Lift-up truck box system developed in the Búrdalo Dam project (Cáceres, Spain).
  • Computer-controlled drilling system, developed and used by the OHL team in the Czech Republic.

Trolley for placement of shuttering slabs developed by OHL and granted an international patent. Application in GR-43 Expressway in Granada. Spain.

 

In Mining and Cement, OHL developed an integrated crushing, transport, acid curing and copper-oxide stacking system in Chile, a project in which the ore extraction process was improved significantly.

Some of these innovations have even resulted in patents, such as:

  • Trolley for the placement of shuttering slabs developed in the GR-43 expressway project in Granada (Spain).
  • Semi-automatic brusher for metal pipes, designed for the works for Oil Pipeline 2013 (Spain).
  • Machine for pre-cracking of soil-cement bases, designed for the works on the A-66 of the Autovía de la Plata in Cáceres (Spain).