Civil Engineering Reference
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10.7 Construction stages of the building frame
The construction stages of work on the building frame consist of:
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Basement construction.
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Staircase cores.
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Steelwork and floors.
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Building enclosure - double skin façade.
A brief description of each of the above stages is outlined, supplemented by site
images.
The basement construction
The basement is surrounded with a concrete bored pile wall containing some 2000
piles. The two storey deep basement contains insitu concrete columns supporting
flat slab insitu floors up to the ground floor level.
A centrally located schwing concrete mast pump was used for all the concreting
operations. The logistics in relation to the pump location and concrete deliveries is
outlined in the management section.
View of SCHWING mast pump (P C Harrington - work package contractor
