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Centro Acuatico Aquatic Centre, Madrid, Spain
Efficient solutions for walls, columns, slabs and beams
London, Paris, Moscow, New York and Madrid - the venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics was to be selected from this shortlist of fi ve cities. Although the final decision favoured London, the Spanish capital went ahead with its plan to build a newswimming centre for international competitions. The facility comprises of three 50 m x 25 m pools as well as a diving pool measuring 25 m x 22 m complete with diving platform. Up to 16,500 spectators can comfortably follow events in the pools from the grandstands. The concrete frame for the entire sports complex, with a surface area of over 30,000 m², was completed in only 15 months.
The extremely short construction period required a combination of effi cient formwork and shoring solutions along with the reliable supply of correspondingly large quantities of materials. VARIO GT 24 column formwork with SSRZ column walers ensured cost-effective construction of the innumerable, up to 14 m high reinforced concrete rectangular columns. With the aluminum lightweight SKYDECK panel slab formwork, the cast-in-place slabs - particularly in combination with MULTIPROP aluminum post shores - could easily be formed without any great effort.
For constructing the intermediate slabs for the service areas, using SKYDECK on MULTIPROP MP 120 props meant that continuous forming could take place for the low, in part only 1.45 m floor-to-ceiling heights. For the standard floors, the MP 480 with its usable height range of 2,60 m to 4.80 m, ensured that in spite of different room heights due to the numerous slab and floor offsets, most areas could be constructed using only one type of prop. With MRK frames and MPV connectors, the individual MULTIPROP post shores could be quickly coupled together to form load-bearing tower systems.
For forming the massive up to 2 m high beams, stable shoring constructions could be assembled with the PERI UP Rosett modular scaffold system. In the process, the shoring towers could be erected as two-dimensional supporting sections and as spatial 3D load-bearing structures using system components. As a result, not only the high concreting loads but also the horizontal forces could be safely transfered into the ground. Importantly, the required stability was already at hand when asembled.
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MULTIPROP Slab prop
VARIO GT 24 Column formwork
SKYDECK Aluminium Panel Slab Formwork
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Antonio Diaz
Site Manager
“PERI is still the leader in service, engineering and quality. Without its support, the project would not have been as successfully completed as it was.”
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