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    Project Stories | Piled-raft foundation design for Pentominium Tower

    About Project

    The Pentominium is a 122-storey, 516 m (1,693 ft) supertall skyscraper on hold in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Pentominium has one of the deepest excavations done in the world. It is located on the west side of the creek in Dubai.

     

    rendering of pentominium tower

    Rendering of Pentominium tower

     

    Project Name

    Pentominium Tower

    Location

    Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Construction Period

    2009 – under construction

    Contractor

    Arabian Construction Company

    Designer

    Hyder Consulting

     

    The development comprises the construction of an approximately 120 story high-rise tower interlinked by low level podium structure housing up to 7 basement levels. The Pentominium Tower will be founded on a piled raft and it is required a 3D finite element model to fully understand the behavior of the foundation interaction with surrounding soil.

     

    Superstructure, piles and raft

    Superstructure, piles and raft

     

    Ground settlement

    Ground settlement

     

    Vertical strain in the rock layers

    Vertical strain in the rock layers

     

     

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