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    This document discusses the unique construction methods used for two buildings from the 1950s, Johnstone Hall and Shanghai Tower. [1] Johnstone Hall implemented a new "lift-slab" construction method where reinforced concrete slabs weighing 224 tons were lifted into place with hydraulic jacks, making it the largest building built with this method. [2] Shanghai Tower is currently under construction using a top-down method involving temporary circular slurry walls to excavate deep foundations before the walls are removed. When complete in 2014, it will have a six-meter thick mat-slab foundation poured in a continuous 60-hour pour.

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    This document discusses the unique construction methods used for two buildings from the 1950s, Johnstone Hall and Shanghai Tower. [1] Johnstone Hall implemented a new "lift-slab" construction method where reinforced concrete slabs weighing 224 tons were lifted into place with hydraulic jacks, making it the largest building built with this method. [2] Shanghai Tower is currently under construction using a top-down method involving temporary circular slurry walls to excavate deep foundations before the walls are removed. When complete in 2014, it will have a six-meter thick mat-slab foundation poured in a continuous 60-hour pour.

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    This document discusses the unique construction methods used for two buildings from the 1950s, Johnstone Hall and Shanghai Tower. [1] Johnstone Hall implemented a new "lift-slab" construction method where reinforced concrete slabs weighing 224 tons were lifted into place with hydraulic jacks, making it the largest building built with this method. [2] Shanghai Tower is currently under construction using a top-down method involving temporary circular slurry walls to excavate deep foundations before the walls are removed. When complete in 2014, it will have a six-meter thick mat-slab foundation poured in a continuous 60-hour pour.

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    This document discusses the unique construction methods used for two buildings from the 1950s, Johnstone Hall and Shanghai Tower. [1] Johnstone Hall implemented a new "lift-slab" construction method where reinforced concrete slabs weighing 224 tons were lifted into place with hydraulic jacks, making it the largest building built with this method. [2] Shanghai Tower is currently under construction using a top-down method involving temporary circular slurry walls to excavate deep foundations before the walls are removed. When complete in 2014, it will have a six-meter thick mat-slab foundation poured in a continuous 60-hour pour.

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    Unique Construction Method

    Johnstone Hall In 1950s

    (Photos Uploaded By Alan Cutts)


    Todays photos are from the 1950s and is Part II of our photos from yesterday of Johnstone
    Hall
    and
    Harcombe
    Dining
    Hall.
    Erected in 1954, the Johnstone Hall complex design became a model for college dormitories,
    implementing a new raise-slab construction method, a practice which was featured in many
    architectural magazines at that time.

    This method - the Youtz-Slick "lift-slab"


    method - lifted reinforced concrete slabs onto
    columns with hydraulic jacks. These slabs
    weighed 224 tons and were nine inches thick,
    122 feet long and 43 feet wide.
    Johnstone Hall was the largest building
    complex erected using this method. Campus
    legend had it that two other similar structures

    built elsewhere collapsed before completion.


    Today, only one of the original Johnstone
    buildings is still standing on the campus. Most
    of the rooms had been taken out of use by the
    mid-1990s as obsolete (electrical wiring
    wasn't grounded, and is still not grounded in
    the remaining structure).

    Shanghai Tower Construction Update


    by Leah Ray

    Shanghai Tower is a super-tall building currently under construction in Shanghai's


    Pudong district. It broke ground in November 2008, and it's on schedule for completion in
    2014. The surprising thing? It's yet to rise above the ground. So: what's going on in that
    enormous hole in the ground? Technical Director Dick Fencl and Project Architect Howe
    Keen Foong offer their insights, including noting that the giant circular form above isn't a
    hole; it's a slurry

    wall. And it's temporary. Here's the story behind it.

    Fencl explains, "There are two key slurry walls that will be built for this project. The first, a
    giant circular form that you see here and in the images above, is temporary. It's put in place to
    excavate down to the level where we build the mat-slab foundation. Once the mat-slab
    foundation is finished, this temporary slurry wall will be removed.
    "The second slurry wall (yet to be built) will line the perimeter of the entire site. It will be
    permanent, and it's a key element of top-down construction. Slurry walls are a good
    construction method for sites with high water tables, such as Shanghai."

    A key component of Shanghai Tower's structure is its six-meter-thick (nearly 20 feet) matslab foundation. Howe Keen Foong offered up some staggering stats on the process (pictured
    above), explaining: "it was poured in a single, continuous, 60-hour concrete
    pour. Construction crews poured an average of 1,000 cubic meters (35,300 cubic feet) of
    concrete per hour. The effort required orchestrating roughly 120 concrete trucks per hour for
    a total of 61,000 cubic meters (2,154,200 cubic feet) of concrete."

    What did this mean for construction crews on the ground? In the image above, you see
    workers standing atop rebar reinforcements that will be part of the mat-slab foundation. To
    complete the process, Foong reports that more than 2,000 workers operating 405 trucks and
    19 cement pumps worked in two shifts for more than 60 consecutive hours to complete the
    pour. They accomplished the feat seamlessly, and to great acclaim--the building's developer
    hosted a well-attended ceremony to celebrate this spectacular construction milestone.

    Richard Fencl is a Principal at Gensler, and Technical Director for our North Central region. Dick
    loves to talk building technology, and delights in explaining concepts ranging from the best way to
    create a water resistant building envelope (harder than it looks) to why we place concretewe never
    pour it! Got a question about the best way to detail a building? Contact him at
    richard_fencl@gensler.com.

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