EUREKA TOWER - Construction Cont..

The Construction of the tower uses many tonnes of concrete reinforced, as stated below.

The tower was built using this reinforced concrete using a slipform method.

Slipform construction is a method for building large towers or bridges from concrete. The name refers to the moving form the concrete is poured into, which moves along the project as the previously poured concrete hardens behind it. The technique has also been applied to road construction.
The technique was in use by the early 20th century for building silos and grain elevators.
Vertical slipform relies on the quick-setting properties of concrete requiring a balance between early strength gain and workability. Concrete needs to be workable enough to be placed to the formwork and strong enough to develop early strength so that the form can slip upwards without any disturbance to the freshly placed concrete.
A notable use of the method was the Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, Ontario, which was completed in 1965. The technique was soon utilized to build the Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario and the CN Tower in Toronto. It is the most common method for construction of tall buildings in Australia.

Research - Case Study EUREKA TOWER

I have researched for my own interest (and added to this Blog) Eureka Tower, as I think it is fantastic and has amazing construction techniques.

Designed by Fender Katsalidis Architects, and the Grocon Group.

Eureka means 'I've Found It' in Greekand the expression 'Eureka, Eureka' was shoutedby Greek mathematician Archimedes (287-221 BC)after he had just discovered the theory of displacement of liquids. This has relation to the Gold area on the top area of the building. (Golden pinnacle).

Building costs were approximately US$ 415 million!

Eureka Tower is the tallest residential Tower in the world. The observatory deck is the highest observatory in the Southern Hempishere,the tower has 13 elevators; two of which will service the observation deck.

Between ground level and floor 11 there are offices, restaurants, retail,a health and fitness centre, a swimming pool, and a residents' car park (800 cars). Floors 11 tot 80 will contain the 556 apartments. The apartment levels are divided in three sections: floors 11 to 24 will be 'River rise', floors 25 to 52 will be 'Premier rise', while Floors 53 to 80 will be 'Sky rise', The top nine floors of the complex, known as 'Summit complex', will have the observatory,the 84th floor penthouse, restaurants, a function centre, and a nightclub on level 87.Two floors are in use as service and plant floors.

Construction began in August 2001, Building Weight = 200,000 Tonnes, 5,000 Tonnes of Reinforced Steel, and 110,000 Tonnes of Concrete.

Facade of the tower consists of 40,000 square metres of glass and aluminum panels. The glass is specially designed to reflect heat in the Summer, but also to retain heat in the Winter.