THE BLADE BUILDING(ABBEY MILL HOUSE),UK

(LONG SPAN CELLULAR BEAM )

SHALIN KAPDI,AJAY KUSHWAHA,VAISHNAVI GHARGE

THE BLADE BUILDING(ABBEY MILL HOUSE),UK
• The Abbey Mill House project is a 16-storey 90-metres tall high-specification fully glazed steel construction
office building and 9-storey reinforced concrete residential block.
• The building superstructure consists of 13.5m long span composite steel floors made up of cellular steel
beams with integrated services with a composite slab on metal deck completing a highly efficient floor
structure.
• As part of a value engineering exercise, They converted standard composite steel plated girders to composite cellular steel beams of optimum
sizes. In doing so, savings of almost 20% of the total steelwork tonnage was obtained, i.e. from about 940 Tonnes to 760 Tonnes of steelwork.

• Due to the unique split construction of the beam, it also have the ability to use an asymmetric design approach – whereby the top half of
the beam is lighter weight than the bottom half of the beam. This increases load capacity, while minimizing the weight of the beam.

• The steelwork tonnage savings were obtained due to the following reasons: –

o The cellular beam manufacturing process allows for the optimization of steel material due
to the fact that cellular holes are created within the webs

o The cellular beam manufacturing process allows for the optimization of steel material due
to the fact that universal beams (UBs) can be chosen for the top half of the beam section and
universal columns (UCs) can be chosen for the bottom half of the beam section

o The redesign was done at a very advanced stage of the project allowing for the employment
of accurate final loadings and bespoke designs
• The first floor was designed to hang off the second floor due to the
architectural requirement of an inset façade at the first floor level. The same
situation reoccurs at the 13th floor, which also thus performs the function of a
transfer floor. Steel frame
work
connected to
core on both
side for
structural Reinforced
stability concrete
core

plan showing beam and column placement (13th floor ,area –1627sq.m)

Service core Floor beam Building lateral stability was designed to be provided solely by
the two reinforced concrete cores.and all the steel work (long
Available office space Grider
span beams and column) is acting as a skeleton between this
Stringer two cores providing maximum habitable space in between
Universal steel column
(200x200mm)
Composite metal decking slab

Grider cellular beam ( spans substructure

to substructure ) at 7.6m span interval

Floor cellular beam ( spanning between

girders) 13-15m span

Universal steel column of size

200mmx200mm