Using the piles of a building demolished decades before as the foundation of a modern building
| Autor: | Szendefy, J., Hübner, B., Scheuring, F., Szepesházi, A., Turai, P. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.8171264 |
| Popis: | Budapest has been changing in the last few decades. The industrial areas built around the old city center were demolished or converted. In place of the old factories, exclusive office buildings or residential buildings have been built. In the investigated area, where a printing house once stood, now an international developer is planning to build an exclusive office and residential complex of -1 floor + ground floor + 8 floors. The area was the former bank of the Danube river, so there are a few meters of peat below the surface at a depth of 4-5 m. The -1 level is an appropriate decision, since the building can be built above the groundwater level, and there is no need to use a D-wall retaining structure. However, with the high foundation level, there is also the need for a pile foundation because of the peat layers. In almost half of the project area there are ~400 pcs of piles existing, about which there is no further information. By using a large number of old piles, foundation costs could be reduced by 30-45%. In addition to the economic benefits, there is also a technical interest in using the previous piles, since new piles cannot be designed without knowledge of the existing ones. By using the old piles, the carbon footprint of the construction of the new building could be significantly reduced. The schedule of the project's foundation works entails a significant risk if the contemporary piles are only uncovered during construction and they have to be dismantled. When taking into account a more environmentally-friendly approach, technical reasons and the economic concerns of the project, the use of the existing piles becomes necessary. Paper presentation |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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