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Intricate and Challenging Projects in Prefabricated Concrete
Infosys Multi Level Car Park, Pune, India
Abstract A truly challenging project constructed fully in concrete, without any other materials/finishes, by the use of prefabricated elements and in-situ concrete combination; the Four Wheeler Multilevel Car Park in Pune is a marvelous and truly challenging engineering achievement. All aspects of Design, Architectural, Structural, Façade Landscape and MEP services were tested to the limit of perfection and accuracy in a sustainable design and execution of this project under very tight site side margins for construction (using a 50 Ton rail going tower crane inside the footprint), and complex transportation requirements. There were total 3500 elements in the building consisting of 16 m span precast TT slabs, 15 m PC columns, and 1300 façade elements each around 7 m long and weighing 2.5 tons, triangular in profile, fixed in around 160 days on site. The challenges involved complex structural design in seismic zone 3, amalgamating the structural and façade elements, beautiful connections between column & column, beam & column, column & spandrel, spandrel & façade element, façade element to element. It was also challenging to produce all the elements in the accuracy and expected erection tolerance limits. Special challenges to transport all elements from factory to site in the city, and above all a very unique self-designed and electronically managed factory to construction site coordination, culminating in the installation of all 3500 elements within a tolerance limit of ±10 mm including the erection tolerances made this unique structure a truly award winning entity internationally also, and ultimately featured it on the cover page of fib bulletin 78 recently, and describing this experience to all concrete lovers in a short time would also be a great challenge in itself.
Intricate and Challenging Projects in Prefabricated Concrete
Infosys Multi Level Car Park, Pune, India
Abstract A truly challenging project constructed fully in concrete, without any other materials/finishes, by the use of prefabricated elements and in-situ concrete combination; the Four Wheeler Multilevel Car Park in Pune is a marvelous and truly challenging engineering achievement. All aspects of Design, Architectural, Structural, Façade Landscape and MEP services were tested to the limit of perfection and accuracy in a sustainable design and execution of this project under very tight site side margins for construction (using a 50 Ton rail going tower crane inside the footprint), and complex transportation requirements. There were total 3500 elements in the building consisting of 16 m span precast TT slabs, 15 m PC columns, and 1300 façade elements each around 7 m long and weighing 2.5 tons, triangular in profile, fixed in around 160 days on site. The challenges involved complex structural design in seismic zone 3, amalgamating the structural and façade elements, beautiful connections between column & column, beam & column, column & spandrel, spandrel & façade element, façade element to element. It was also challenging to produce all the elements in the accuracy and expected erection tolerance limits. Special challenges to transport all elements from factory to site in the city, and above all a very unique self-designed and electronically managed factory to construction site coordination, culminating in the installation of all 3500 elements within a tolerance limit of ±10 mm including the erection tolerances made this unique structure a truly award winning entity internationally also, and ultimately featured it on the cover page of fib bulletin 78 recently, and describing this experience to all concrete lovers in a short time would also be a great challenge in itself.
Intricate and Challenging Projects in Prefabricated Concrete
Infosys Multi Level Car Park, Pune, India
Bhate, Ajit Vasant (author)
2017-08-06
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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