A dazzling icon of chinese rise to power

60,000 tons of steel, 260,000 cu. Meters of concrete, 2,000 dedicated chinese workers

101 storey Nearly 500m tall 3rd tallest building in the world

Highest observation deck

Deigned to be strong enough to stand up to kill a typhoon and powerful earthquakes

China’s highest building= 9 storey (past)

Deadly human threats

24/7 work day and night shift

Lift bolted outside the building= only way

Favelle favco M900D=construction crane powerful- 10 times heavier than eiflle tower

- 650 tons of steel first floor

- Hoist beam
- 6 am to 6pm
- Hydraulic rams
- New tower section
- Wire hook 750m

Fear and Anxiety or being nervous

Once seems doomed to fail

William Pedersen= lead designer

- steel and glass

Pudong Bad place to build a tall building= river waters saturate its soil turning it into unstable mud,
when pump the water out the land sinks

Effective device to anchor the skyscraper in mud=friction piles

- 2 000 steel rod driven 80 meters

1997- Asia’s overheated economies collapsed

- Financial center investers pullout

- Construction halted
- 5 years past still remain hole in the ground
- 2003 asia’s economy are roring back
- Minoru mori finds new investors
- Design no longer works – must rival Taipei 101
- The foundation was already built to support 95 storey and could not more support another
storey
- Must be finished before Olympic
 Dedicated to work
- Larger, taller, lighter solution was a trial – modular design and outrigger truss steel beams
radiating out from a concrete core, attached to a diagonal brace frame. A modular design
requiring less steel to build and reapiting itself every 12 storey
- Series of 12 storey buildings stack on top of one another – easier and faster to build faster
construction and economical construction
outrigger truss – one floor every 3 days
bolts in floor plates
150 km rebars just to cover 1 floor
Concrete pumps- 40 m
Concrete trucks
– pumps that are real deal they can pump 500 m in to the air- it takes a long time and if mixing
is not right the concrete will set inside the pipe and waste a lot of time searching for the
blockage
Dusk till dawn
Earthquake – simulator earthquakes magnitude 7
Detail and special analysis need to carry out
Challenge = installing 10,000 windows quickly as possible 15 windows per day 1 floor 3-4 and
half day – 130 workers specializes in installing windows
Climate- Visibility drops to zero Strong winds – construction halt
- Affects the installation works
- Number 1 enemy wind and typhoon 2005 typhoon matsa 150kph
- The taller the building the greater the danger of wind pushing it over- you let it through 53 m
diameter
- Chinese authority objected to the circle design
- Enclose walkway
- Shape of trapezoid
- Most advanced elevator