VERTICAL

CONSTRUCTION IN
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INDIA
Presented by: Kenneth L. Edra

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Vertical Construction
Vertical construction includes construction projects that
stretch vertically like apartment buildings, office buildings, skyscrapers,
and other types of commercial buildings.

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THE ESTATE MAKATI -
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THE ESTATE MAKATI
The Estate Makati is a 276.8 m (908 ft)
residential skyscraper under construction
in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Construction
• The Estate Makati is a project of ST
6747 Resources Corp. which is a joint
venture of SM Development Corp.
(SMDC) and Federal Land, Inc. 
• The groundbreaking ceremony was
held on January 2019. DM
Construction was tasked as the general
contractor of the building project
estimated to cost at least ₱10 billion.

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THE ESTATE MAKATI
• The Estate Makati will be a 54-storey
building standing 276.8 meters (908 ft) tall
making it among the tallest buildings in the
Philippines and the tallest along Ayala
Avenue.
• It will be built on top of a 3,500 square
meters (38,000 sq.ft) lot at Apartment
Ridge.
• British architectural firm Foster +
Partners was involved which designed The
Estate as a cross-shaped building to reduce
adverse sunlight exposure to occupants.
• The skyscraper will host 188 residential
units including eight penthouse suites. The
building also has 618 parking slots with
charging support for electric vehicles

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DDT SKY TOWER

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DDT SKY TOWER
The DDT Sky Tower is an office skyscraper under
construction in Quezon City, Metro
Manila, Philippines.
• The DDT Sky Tower is a project of DataLand Inc.
and is the first project of the company under its
office spaces arm, DataLand Offices.
• The 60-storey building will stand on a 5,000 square
meters (54,000 sq ft) land and will have a total
leasable office space of 115,000 square meters
(1,240,000 sq ft) reportedly the biggest in the
Philippine office space industry as of mid-2019.
• The office spaces of the building will be divided
into three zones: Low zone (16th to 27th floors),
mid zone (28th zone) and high zone (43rd to 57th
floors).
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PALAIS ROYALE INDIA

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PALAIS ROYALE
Introduction
• Palais Royale (pronounced as pa-lai
ro-yaal)
• A French name which means a Royal
Palace
• This prestigious high-rise residential
building in Mumbai is being developed
by Shree Ram Urban Infrastructure
Limited

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Location
• Situated in the heart of south Mumbai,
Worli Naka,

Features
• The building has a height of 310m
above the ground level
• Has a total structural height of 325m
from the bottom of the foundation to the
top of the elevation cap
• Base dimension: 84m x 86m
• Construction area: 3 million sq.ft. with 88
slabs

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Structural Systems
• Overall building is a reinforced concrete
structure on a raft foundation
Apartment Floors
• Beam and slab system was used
• Column placement does not match vertically
• Residential floor has 244 columns and the
parking levels have 88 columns
• Hence, up to 9m deep by 1200mm to 1500
wide transfer girders were placed in an
interstitial level to enable efficient column
locations in each occupancy

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Parking and Amenity Levels
• The structural below transfer girder level is
comprised predominantly of a post-tensioned
flat slab except in the Brahmasthan where
the 25m by 22m rectangular area is framed
by strong post-tensioned mbeams
Soil Profile
• Estimated safe bearing pressure of
220T/sq.m with settlement less than 25mm
• Modulus of subgrade reaction of 8800T/m3
• Poisson’s ratio – 0.32
• Young’s Modulus – 5200MPa
• Shear Modulus – 200 MPa

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PALAIS ROYALE
Foundations
• The building foundation is a 3.5m thick
raft
• The raft is founded on rock with an
allowable bearing capacity of 220t/sq.m.
• 275,000 ton of top soil and rock
excavated

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Structural Analysis
Wind Tunnel Tests – tests by RWDI showed that for
ten year return period the Total Peak Acceleration in
simulated wind condition was 7.2milli-g against the
ISO criteria 10137:2007 of 14 milli-g

Site Specific Seismic Studies – the spectrum was

assigned in the ETABS model as an additional load
case

Computer Model – three dimensional ETABS model

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Structural Analysis
Analysis Results
• Extensive reference to international guidelines
• Generation of site specific response spectra and time-
histories
• Special structure - IS-1893 (2002)
• Min. design base shear scaled to 1% of seismic
weight
• Intrinsic damping foe seismic & wind design
• Structural elements modelled using cracked section
properties
• Importance factor of 1.5 used
• Seismic deflections under DBE controlled H/750

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Structural Analysis
Analysis of Transfer Girders – Solid
Finite Element Method

Concrete Information – M:80 concrete

for columns and shear walls and M:60
concrete have been used for slabs and
beams

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PALAIS ROYALE
Façade – glass and maintenance-free material
known as “Corian” manufactured by Du Pont

Eco- Friendly Measures

Energy Conservation
Alterante Energy Sources
Security Measures
Smoke Detection & Studies in Atrium

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Thank you for listening!
Keep Safe!

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