Water Retaining Structures

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Rusca Dam, Teregova, Romania


Climbing formwork for every form and high loads



The Rusca Dam in the Banater Mountains has an overall height of 75 m and the river Raul Alb river forms a reservoir at this point which contains a seasonal-related volume of up to an impressive 35 million m³ of water when full. The curved top of the dam is 280 m long with a constant width of 4 m. The base of the three-dimensional curvilineal structure is 16 m wide. In the space of only three years, around 180,000 m³ of concrete was used in the construction. PERI engineers from the Bucharest office developed a cost-effective formwork concept for this dam project which fulfilled all requirements for maintaining specified construction schedules together with high quality of workmanship.

The 15 m long casting segments were shuttered, reinforced and concreted with cycle heights of 2 m.

With the single-sided PERI climbing formwork solution using SKS climbing brackets and VARIO GT 24 girder wall formwork, site crews were in a position to carry out all required adjustments directly on site. The SKS 180 brackets allowed alignments to be made to changes in the vertical angle of inclination - both in a forward and reverse direction - reaching up to 20 degrees at the base and top of the dam. With GKZ articulated couplings between the VARIO elements, the horizontal radius could be comfortably adjusted.

PERI Systems In Use
  • VARIO GT 24 Girder Wall Formwork
  • SKS Single Sided Climbing System

  • Florin Udrescu


    Technical Director

    “The PERI concept is technically very sound and allowed us to save time and work extremely cost-effectively. The VARIO formwork can be adapted to ideally suit the horizontal radii. The vertical curvatures could easily be adjusted with the SKS climbing system.”

    Contractor: S.C. Hidroconstructia S.A., Bistra
    Field Service: PERI Bucharest, Romania
    Field Service: PERI România SRL, Rumänien
    PERI Handbook 2008