Strukturas team congratulates founder Engineer Tore Gjølme on his 80th birthday. Everyone is inspired by the founder’s professional life and appreciates every insight of his engineering legacy. Tore still going strong and working together with Strukturas team. 

Key facts about Tore Gjølme achievements:

✅ 1975 – The first Norwegian MSS was created for construction of the E18 Drammen bridge, the longest bridge in Norway. Tore Gjølme was participating in the development of the MSS.

✅ 1979 to 1990 – several rebuilt projects of the MSS Drammenvogna to fit new bridge constructions in Norway and Sweden.

✅ 1991 – Strukturas AS was founded.

✅ 1992 – Strukturas sold the first MSS to Korea High-Speed Railway project Seoul to Pusan. Strukturas delivered16 MSS to several main contractors.

✅ 1993 – Strukturas sold the first MSS in Portugal by Aquilino Raimundo. During the following twenty years Portugal became a very important market.

✅ 1994 – Strukturas sold the first MSS to Taiwan ROC. In the same way as Portugal, Taiwan became after that a very important market for the next 15 years.

✅ 1994 – first sale contract for Launching Gantries to Light Rail Transit project, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

✅ 1995 – The bridge with the smallest horizontal radius ever made by Strukturas MSS was the bridge Amoreira in Madeira, Portugal with a horizontal radius of 230 m.

✅ 1999 – The bridge with the smallest horizontal radius ever made by Strukturas Launching Gantry was the bridge C810 – LRT for Sengkang & Punggol in Singapore with a horizontal radius of 75 m.

✅ 2002 – 100 bridges made with Strukturas MSS.

✅ 2002 – Strukturas quality system using NS-EN ISO 9001:2000 was implemented.

✅ 2002 – Strukturas started to use the 3D software Tekla for drafting of the bridge building equipment.

✅ 2002 – Strukturas delivered the biggest MSS up to now to Industrial Ring Road (IRR) project in Bangkok, Thailand. 67,5 meter span. Concrete weight per span was 69,1 tons/m.

✅ 2004 – Second deck of the Drammensbrua (longest bridge in Norway) was made with the same MSS as Tore Gjølme designed in 1974.

✅ 2004 – first rental contract for MSS, Lotto 2 d`Asti Motta, Italy.

✅ 2005 – Strukturas designed the first Mid Water Arches for the project Alvheim MWA.

✅ 2006 – we sold our first SLMSS (Self Launching MSS) to Zambezi River project, Mozambique.

✅ 2008 – first rental contract for FT, Mondego bridge, Portugal.

✅ 2014 – Strukturas delivered its next biggest MSS up to now to the Gerald Desmond Bridge in California, USA. 70,1 meter span. Concrete weight per span was 47,6 tons/m.

✅ 2015 – Øyvind Karlsen replaced founder Tore Gjølme as Managing Director.

Strukturas managing director Øyvind Karlsen says: 

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY TORE! 

Thanks for everything you have done for the company and the employees. 

For me, it has been incredibly educational and rewarding to go from being the youngest person in the company to 26 years later being the general manager and Tore’s successor.”

STRUKTURAS

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