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Project Stories | Piled-raft foundation design for Pentominium Tower

Written by MIDAS GEO TEAM | 2020.05.18

About Project

The Pentominium is a 122-storey, 516 m (1,693 ft) supertall skyscraper on hold in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Pentominium has one of the deepest excavations done in the world. It is located on the west side of the creek in Dubai.

 

Rendering of Pentominium tower

 

Project Name

Pentominium Tower

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Construction Period

2009 – under construction

Contractor

Arabian Construction Company

Designer

Hyder Consulting

 

The development comprises the construction of an approximately 120 story high-rise tower interlinked by low level podium structure housing up to 7 basement levels. The Pentominium Tower will be founded on a piled raft and it is required a 3D finite element model to fully understand the behavior of the foundation interaction with surrounding soil.

 

Superstructure, piles and raft

 

Ground settlement

 

Vertical strain in the rock layers

 

 

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