Saldome2 in Rheinfelden, Switzerland In May 2012, the new Saldome2 of the Swiss company Salt Works on the Rhine AG was officially put into oper- ation. With a span length of 120 m and a height of 31.6 m the salt stor- age is the biggest dome construction in Europe. It was designed and built by Häring, a Swiss company special- ized in timber technology. The struc- tural analysis was performed by Häring engineers, R. Schneider and C. Zihlmann, using the Dlubal programs RSTAB and TIMBER Pro. Huge Salt Storage With a base area of 11,300 square meters, Saldome2 is about the same size as two football pitches. Thus, it is almost twice as big as the first dome construction Saldome1 put into oper ation in August 2005. It is possible to store more than 100,000 tons of road salt ins

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