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Hotel set for culture, 'copters and quakes
El Hotel de Mexico under construction in Mexico City is featuring hotel-cultural complex containing three buildings; 36-story reinforced concrete hotel stands on 260 reinforced concrete piles, driven to average depth of 75 ft; five-level base, with two levels below ground, supports tower, which contains 33 floors of hotel rooms; French slip-form method was used for core construction; form, 1 1/4 in. thick and 4 ft high, was supported by metal yokes, each in form of inverted U; each of 42 yokes was attached to hydraulic jack; special light weight floor system "tridilosa" was constructed from 16th level up. (29982)
Hotel set for culture, 'copters and quakes
El Hotel de Mexico under construction in Mexico City is featuring hotel-cultural complex containing three buildings; 36-story reinforced concrete hotel stands on 260 reinforced concrete piles, driven to average depth of 75 ft; five-level base, with two levels below ground, supports tower, which contains 33 floors of hotel rooms; French slip-form method was used for core construction; form, 1 1/4 in. thick and 4 ft high, was supported by metal yokes, each in form of inverted U; each of 42 yokes was attached to hydraulic jack; special light weight floor system "tridilosa" was constructed from 16th level up. (29982)
Hotel set for culture, 'copters and quakes
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 182
1969
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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