The project comprises the development of 4 plots with villas, townhouses, podium, 6 towers of 500 no furnished apartments each and internal roadways, landscape and utilities.A Basement extends under the Podium and Road which provides car parking amenities and MEP spaces. The completion due date is on the 30th of September 2018. The basement footprint area is 23000 m2. .Podium floors are typically flat slabs while all other floors are post tensioned concrete slabs. The tower is supported on concrete columns and cores. Tower foundation is a reinforced concrete pile caps.The tower was designed against gravity loads and, seismic and wind loads. The scope of work was to review the original design and perform Value engineering for the tower.
Codes and Standards:
ASCE05-7-: Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and other Structures.
Building Code Requirements for Structural Con-crete (ACI 11-318) and commentary.
Software:
Etabs 2015
Safe 14
Ram v8i
AutoCAD 2015
Client:
Aky Real Estate Development Doha Qatar
Al Oraik Real Estate Development
Design Consultant:
Keo International consultant
Structural Consultant :
CDEC
Supervision Consultant:
MEDAD Engineering Consultant LLC