Technical specifications

Structures

• Construction of the complete harbour stairway, including bored pile foundations and water intake points,
• Connection of “Kulturinsel” (culture island) to the promenade by means of a reinforced concrete bridge,
• faced brickwork embankment with precast reinforced concrete elements, approx. 1,700 m² exposed, three-coloured, surface-treated and partly rounded concrete surface,
• Construction and installation of the weir system with observation platform and transformer house at the back while adhering to exposed concrete requirements
• Construction of two slipways
• Construction of mooring posts with spread foundation at the bottom of the lake for a planned restaurant ship
• Anchorage of marking lines for the planned rowing facility on the floor of the lake.
• Transportation and installation of a historically significant converter of the former steel industry
• Effect lighting and electrotechnical equipment of various kinds for the boat docks

Pedestrian bridges

• 3 bridges identical in construction over the River Emscher
• Steel-arch system with suspended roadway slab
• Abutment on bored pile foundations

Embankment

• approx. 350 m with angular retaining walls of waterproof concrete with heights of up to approx. 5.50 m
• partly rounded and on bored pile foundations approx. 350 m in the harbour area with sheet piling
• partly anchored back „Kulturinsel“ (culture island) with angular retaining walls
• partly rounded with exposed concrete

Structural concrete
a total of approx. 4,200 m³

Reinforcement
500 t

Steel structure for bridge
100 t