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    Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi

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    The building uses several innovative structural design features, including a pre-cambered concrete core that is engineered to straighten as the building is constructed and vertical post-tensioning of the core to counteract stresses from the building's overhang. It is also the first building to use these structural technologies. The foundation consists of 400 concrete piles of varying depths, with half in compression and half in tension due to the building's overhang, supported by a reinforced concrete raft.

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    Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi

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    The building uses several innovative structural design features, including a pre-cambered concrete core that is engineered to straighten as the building is constructed and vertical post-tensioning of the core to counteract stresses from the building's overhang. It is also the first building to use these structural technologies. The foundation consists of 400 concrete piles of varying depths, with half in compression and half in tension due to the building's overhang, supported by a reinforced concrete raft.

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    Brief About the foundation of Capital Gate, Babu Dhabi and Details

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    The building uses several innovative structural design features, including a pre-cambered concrete core that is engineered to straighten as the building is constructed and vertical post-tensioning of the core to counteract stresses from the building's overhang. It is also the first building to use these structural technologies. The foundation consists of 400 concrete piles of varying depths, with half in compression and half in tension due to the building's overhang, supported by a reinforced concrete raft.

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    Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi

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    The building uses several innovative structural design features, including a pre-cambered concrete core that is engineered to straighten as the building is constructed and vertical post-tensioning of the core to counteract stresses from the building's overhang. It is also the first building to use these structural technologies. The foundation consists of 400 concrete piles of varying depths, with half in compression and half in tension due to the building's overhang, supported by a reinforced concrete raft.

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    It is the first building in the world to use a pre cambered core with a built in lean of 350

    millimeters that has been engineered to straighten with the addition of the upper
    floor.
    It is also the first building in world to use vertical post tensioning of the core to
    counter movement and support stresses created by building over hang.
    FOUNDATION

    • The foundation consists of a rectangular raft


    footing supported on 400 concrete piles of 1
    meter diameter
    • Half of the piles are under compression and
    run to a depth of about 20 meters
    • The other half of the piles run to a depth of
    about 30 meters and anchor tightly to the soil
    and are in tension due to the massive eccentric
    overhang of the building
    • The 2 meter deep raft footing was made up of
    7000 cum of reinforeced concrete to distribute
    the loads evenly on the piles
    • The concrete core occupies the only vertical space available in
    tower profile. It has high reinforcement levels , especially at the
    steel framing connections .
    The core has two innovative features:
    • During construction a pre-cambered core was poured slightly
    off vertical , so when the tower floors were framed in to the
    opposite side, the added load straightened the tower.
    • A post tensioned core was designed with vertical cables in one
    side tensioned to counteract the lean on the other side. These
    cables were installed in vertical segments that overlap each
    other every seven floors. Strung together , they span the entire
    height of the core to maintain it in a perfectly vertical position.
    • The core was pre cambered meaning it was initially tilted away
    from the overhang of the building and was straightened by the
    dead load of the building
    • The core was built using the technique called jump forming
    • The concreting was done at night to avoid the extreme day
    heat which maycause the concrete to dryand crack
    • Slump tests werecarried out on evey batch of concrete
    • Concreting was done by pumping and 250 mm slump
    concretewas used
    • Thecorewas post tensioned
    • A total of 146 tendons were incorporated into the core
    through ducts
    The Façade
    Every one of the 12,500 panes of glass on the facade is a different size, although each
    pane is triangular

    The structure has two diagrid systems i.e. an external diagrid and an internal diagrid
    which is linked to the central core with eight pin jointed structural members

    The external diagrid consists of 720 of such cruciform each different size and shape
    and orientation.

    Each Unit is two floors high and one diagrid wide about 800 x 800 mm on avg, which
    carries vertical structural load.

    The panels are braced for wind resistance at the middle floor slab, which carries the
    horizontal load.
    The upper half of the tower has a double skin façade to reduce the solar heat gain at
    the hotel levels. This is a modified double façade, which recycles interior air from the
    guest rooms into the façade cavity. Here it creates an insulating buffer between the
    hot outside air and the cool inside air. The air is re-used in the room rather than
    exhausted and replaced with outside air.

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