![]() Once we prepared our methods design, we managed to take advantage of bigger formwork panels available in-house. “Initially, it was foreseen to be four concrete ‘rings’. This was one thing that helped us from the beginning,” Dias points out.Įlaborating further on the formwork aspect, Dias says they divided it to reach the central part after the first pour and then had what they call three ‘rings’, on top of it. This served us well because we eliminated several activities that could have risked damaging other work and were able to do it faster. Hence, we didn’t have to do the traditional foundation method. “One of the things we ended up doing differently was to take advantage of the sheer amount of rebar and tie the formwork to it. Underneath this blinding, you have cathodic protection, cables, trenches for dewatering, and several other things already done by the piling contractor before us. “Our first task was to do blinding so we have a clean environment to work in. While pouring concrete, the formwork could rise, and the traditional solution to avoid this is doing a foundation for the formwork itself. To build the formwork for this quantity of concrete, a concern for Besix was its uplifting. With its staggering dimension of 36 m by 36 m and a 5-m height, it allowed to open several fronts and work concurrently on the first contractual milestone while working on the outer part of the pile cap,” he explains.ĭias says they took advantage of the circumstances during the first pour, which had more than 3,200 tonnes of rebar. This led to the very first pour on the project being the biggest one – 6,036 cu m of concrete of continuous pouring. The first milestone, Dias says, was to reach the top on the central part of the pile cap. There were some concerns about how we were going to do it, but once we started, we became more confident.” ![]() “There were a lot of questions to be answered, because of the sheer volume and the dimension of the project it’s 20 m high and 70 m in diameter. He says it was a bit of a step into the unknown. But we were never working with the target to achieve any record.” That we managed to do it faster than envisioned is a result of every little piece working concurrently. Speaking to OSCAR WENDEL in an exclusive interview for Gulf Construction, Ruben Fidalgo Dias, project manager, Besix, says: “Everyone – and not just the contractor – was fully involved, including Calatrava, Aurecon, DEC, Parsons, Besix and Emaar. first pour on the project involved 6,036 cu m of continuous concrete pouring. The concrete pouring began in September 2017 and reached over 50 per cent completion in January 2018, with the pile cap having been completed in June 2018.ĭias. The contract for the pile cap foundation works was awarded to Besix subsidiary, Six Construct. In October 2016, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, marked the ground-breaking of the tower, with the barrettes foundation work, which once completed would make way to execute the pile cap foundations work. The job involved placing 18,000 tonnes of reinforced steel and pouring 48,000 cu m of concrete.ĭubai Creek Tower’s pile cap is an approximately 20-m-thick multi-layered, tiered reinforced concrete top that covers and transfers the load to the foundation barrettes. In an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the recent Innovative Structural Concrete conference in Dubai, RUBEN FIDALGO DIAS of Besix, outlines the challenges faced in executing the pile cap for Dubai Creek Tower, which is set to be the world’s next tallest tower.Īs many as 450 skilled professionals worked day and night to complete the pile cap at Dubai Creek Tower in less than nine months – and two months ahead of schedule.
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