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Enterprise House, Cardiff
16 m MULTIPROP falsework
and inclined TRIO columns for architectural icon
The Atrium in Cardiff is a new campus of the University of Glamorgan that will house the Cardiff school of Creative and Cultural Industries. Described as an architectural icon, the Atrium is due to open in September 2007.
The complicated design of the concrete shell presented many challenges to PERI design engineers particularly due to the varying dimensions of each consecutive slab. While the middle section of each slab remained fairly constant, the floor sections at the rear of the building alternated between a slab and a ring beam arrangement. At the front of the building, each slab cantilevered out further than the one below it. At times this required MULTIPROP shoring heights of over 16 m to safely support the protruding slabs from the ground rather than using cantilevered falsework. While the slab and beams were formed with strike-and-erect MULTIPROP and aluminium beam falsework, the vertical elements of the structure were formed with a combination of TRIO and VARIO formwork.
At the face of the building, where inclined columns needed to be formed, TRIO panels braced with Push- Pull props were successfully employed. This included the 2-storey inclined column that had to support most of the cantilevering front end of the building and was nicknamed “The elephants foot” on site, due to its shear size.
In just 21 weeks on site, sub-contractors Thames Valley Construction successfully formed the impressive and challenging five-storey concrete structure.
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TRIO
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Dean Pumford
Site Foreman
“The design of PERI sys-tems and components is always first-rate. TRIO panels are particularly fast and easy to use while the MULTIPROP strike-and- erect system enabled us to sucessfully form the challengeing slabs.“
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Thames Valley Construction Ltd, Beaconsfield, BUCKS |
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PERI UK, Dartford Office |
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Field Service:
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PERI Ltd., Großbritannien
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PERI scope 1|2008, GB
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