Orhideea Towers is a double tower office building complex located in the Western part of Bucharest.The towers are respectively 85m (17 floors) and 64 meters tall (13 floors). The two towers are connected by the use of a sky bridge.

For this project, Dextra was involved in the supply of its Fortec rebar coupler solution. The Fortec solution is composed of a standard rebar coupler, used for both standard and positional applications, connected to two rebar end which have previously been enlarged and threaded.Fortec is especially suitable for seismic environment construction, which is the case of buildings in the Bucharest area.

Fortec couplers have been used to provide all reinforcement connections in the heavily reinforced foundation mat (1.5meters thick). Fortec couplers are relatively compact and avoid the tedious task of overlapping rebar in congested environment.

Fortec couplers also provided temporary opening, allowing movement of men and equipment around the reinforcement. Before casting, the continuation bars are simply connecting to the couplers, filling the temporary opening gap.