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    Geotechnical

    Project Stories | Soil-structure interaction for piled-raft foundation of the tallest tower

    About Project

    Rising 1,000 meters into the Arabian sky, Jeddah Tower will eclipse the reigning tallest building by 173 meters. The first phase of the Kingdom City comprises the Tower, a 65,000 square meter retail mall and a 3,000+ car underground garage.

     

    Jeddah Tower

    Rendering of Jeddah Tower

     

    Project Name

    Jeddah Tower (formerly Kingdom Tower)

    Location

    Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Construction Period

    2013 – under construction

    Contractor

    Saudi Binladin Group

    Designer

    Langan International

     

    Langan was appointed as geotechnical, site/civil and traffic engineer and parking planner for the first phase of the development. Langan’s role as the geotechnical engineer included the development and oversight of the site subsurface investigation, 3D finite element modeling of the soil-foundation structure interaction, settlement predictions of the foundation performance, development and oversight of full-scale load testing and final design of the piles in collaboration with the design team.

     

    In-situ testing

    In-situ testing

     

    3D geotechnical finite element model

    3D geotechnical finite element model

     

    Bearing pressure contours

    Bearing pressure contours

     

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