Look out for the up- coming publication • LATEST PT DESIGN TECH- NOLOGIES • SEMINARS AND WORK SHOPS • STATE-OF-THE-ART DE- SIGNS • UPDATES AND FOLLOW- UPS FROM THIS ISSUE • PBL SOCIAL EVENTS ROSE CONDOMINIUM, CAMBODIA 1 JUICE PRODUCTION FAC- TORY, KUWAIT 3 APSARA BORDER GRADE SEPARATOR – HORIZONTAL & VERTICAL ANCHORS 4 MARRAKESH HUA HIN RESIDENCES 8 Inside this issue: July 2010 Volume 4, Issue3 WE STRENGTHEN YOUR STRUCTURES PBL GROUP NEWSLETTER Message from the Editor of India. As a part of infra- structure development , several stadiums - con- struction of new stadiums as well as renovating the existing stadiums, grade separators, road under- passes, flyovers and ap- proach structures were proposed to be con- structed across New Delhi City. Back to Land of Smile, Thailand, for New Hua Hin condominium prop- erty, Marrakesh Hua Hin Residence, the residential resort development on freehold land with direct access to the beach with 3,000 million Baht invest- ment has been developed. Joy Editor Dear Readers Here again in this issue we update our readers of the projects both overseas and in Thailand. Starting with the project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with the double-digit eco- nomic growth rates in re- cent years Cambodia has triggered as economic boom, with new hotels, restaurants, bars and resi- dential buildings springing up around the city, Canadia Bank Ltd. invested 30 mil- lion USD for launching one luxurious residential pro- ject at the bank of Bassac River, Rose Condominium with the total area of 66,300 sq.m. for 4 towers. Then we will take you to Kuwait, the country situ- ated in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia in order to visit the project which Emirates Post Tension LLC. (EPT) in U.A.E., an affiliated company of PBL Group, has been awarded the PT contract from Na- tional Canned Food Prod- uct & Trd., Co. & DANIAH for construction of 4 storeys of Juice Pro- duction Factory. Turning to South Asia to welcome the occasion of hosting the prestigious Common Wealth Game 2010 in New Delhi, Cen- tral Public Works Depart- ment, Government of In- dia was assigned to im- prove the road infrastruc- ture in the city of capital Continued on Page 2 Rose Condominium, Cambodia Phnom Penh, the capital and the largest city of Cam- bodia located in the south- central region of Cambodia, at the confluence of the Tonle Sap, Mekong, and Bas- sac rivers. These rivers provide poten- tial freshwater and other resources. Phnom Penh has been the nation capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has become the nation’s center of economic activities. “With the double digit economic growth rates in recent years have triggered as economic boom, with new hotels, restaurant, bars and residential building spring up around the city.” Perspective of Rose Condominium
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Look out for the up-coming publication • LATEST PT DESIGN TECH-
W E S T R E N G T H E N Y O U R S T R U C T U R E S
PBL GROUP NEWSLETTER
Message from the Editor of India. As a part of infra-structure development , several stadiums - con-struction of new stadiums as well as renovating the existing stadiums, grade separators, road under-passes, flyovers and ap-proach structures were proposed to be con-structed across New Delhi City.
Back to Land of Smile, Thailand, for New Hua Hin condominium prop-erty, Marrakesh Hua Hin Residence, the residential resort development on freehold land with direct access to the beach with 3,000 million Baht invest-ment has been developed.
Joy Editor
Dear Readers
Here again in this issue we update our readers of the projects both overseas and in Thailand.
Starting with the project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with the double-digit eco-nomic growth rates in re-cent years Cambodia has triggered as economic boom, with new hotels, restaurants, bars and resi-dential buildings springing up around the city, Canadia Bank Ltd. invested 30 mil-lion USD for launching one luxurious residential pro-ject at the bank of Bassac River, Rose Condominium with the total area of 66,300 sq.m. for 4 towers.
Then we will take you to Kuwait, the country situ-
ated in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia in order to visit the project which Emirates Post Tension LLC. (EPT) in U.A.E., an affiliated company of PBL Group, has been awarded the PT contract from Na-tional Canned Food Prod-uct & Trd., Co. & DANIAH for construction of 4 storeys of Juice Pro-duction Factory.
Turning to South Asia to welcome the occasion of hosting the prestigious Common Wealth Game 2010 in New Delhi, Cen-tral Public Works Depart-ment, Government of In-dia was assigned to im-prove the road infrastruc-ture in the city of capital
Continued on Page 2
Rose Condominium, Cambodia
Phnom Penh, the capital and the largest city of Cam-bodia located in the south-central region of Cambodia,
at the confluence of the Tonle Sap, Mekong, and Bas-sac rivers. These
rivers provide poten-tial freshwater and other resources. Phnom Penh has been the nation capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has become the nation’s center of economic activities.
“With the double digit economic growth rates in recent years have triggered as economic boom, with new hotels, restaurant, bars and residential building spring up around the city.”
Perspective of Rose Condominium
which was occupied by swim-ming pool plus garden and multi-purposed area, 23 storeys was for residential area with 92 units and roof floor. The 30 storeys of Tower 3 and Tower 4 comprised 4 storeys of car park, 1 storey of podium, 24 storeys of residential area with 96 units and roof floor. The residents could access the com-mon use of the car park and podium together as these floors were connected for all 4 tow-ers.
Post Tensioning Features
The structure of Rose condominium was reinforced concrete system with PBL post-tensioning system being utilized from 6th floor upto roof floor. The post tensioning slab thickness was only 150mm supported by PT beams and RC walls. PBL anchorage SF105 with mono-strand PE duct system was used for this project.
Rose Condominium, Cambodia
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The project was launched out some-time in 2007 and expected to be com-pleted in late 2011. At present, the construction of 4 towers is executed upto 29th floor.
Project Team Works
The project was owned by Canadia Bank Ltd. under project team work as follows.
PBL Group Ltd. was responsible for the PT material supply, and post-tensioning design while the structural and architectural designs was taken care by Institute of Architectural De-sign Hefei University of Technology (CHINA). The PT construction of the project was carried out by WEN Hold-ing Company Limited, the main con-tractor under monitoring and supervi-sion by site engineers of PBL Group Ltd. and consultant team of Canadia Bank.
With the double-digit economic growth rates in recent years Cambo-dia has triggered its economic boom, with new hotels, restaurants, bars and residential buildings springing up around the city. The main economic is based on commercial such as gar-ments, trading, small and medium enterprises. The property business is booming since the past few years.
Canadia Bank Ltd. invested 30 million USD for launching one luxurious residential project at the bank of Bassac River. This river, commonly referred to as Tonle Bassac, is a tributary of the mighty Mekong River and runs parallel to its bigger neighbor as it flows south from Phnom Penh and out to the Vietnamese border near Chau Dac. It is also a popular entry and exit route for the locals between Cambodia and Vietnam and is used for transporting goods be-tween the two countries.
Residential luxurious Rose Condo-minium Project comprised 2 phases of 7 towers. Phase 1 consisted of 4 tow-ers with the total area of 66,300 sq.m. Tower 1 and Tower 2 comprised 29 storeys. 4 storeys was for car parking (basement + 1st floor + 2nd floor + 3A floor + 3B floor), 1 storey for podium
“Canadia Bank Ltd. invested 30 million USD. for launching one residential project at the bank of Bassac River.”
Typical tendon layout for 9th-20th floor of Tower 1
PT tendon ready for inspection
Tower 1-4 in phase 1 of Rose Condomonium
Grout vent at dead end already installed
Contributed by: Mr. Wittayasit Ampai, a Project Engineer of PBL Group Ltd.
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Juice Production Factory, Kuwait
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Emirates Post Tension LLC. (EPT) in U.A.E., an affiliated company of PBL Group has been into various accomplish-ment during the past years. EPT had projects around the Emirates and nearby countries in Kuwait which gave a favor-able financial status in spite of the recession that United Arab Emirates had experienced dur-ing the previous year.
At present, EPT have been awarded from National Canned Food Product & Trd., Co. & DANIAH to start a project, Juice Pro-duction Factory in order to produce tomato juice and mineral water, lo-cated in block 11 Subhan, Kuwait, the country which situated in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the South and Iraq to the North and lies on the northwestern shore of the Persian Gulf.
4 storey of the factory consisted of basement + ground floor + 1st floor and roof floor with total area of 8,390 sq.m. The project was started in Janu-ary 10, 2010 and was completed con-struction on June 10, 2010.
Post Tensioning Features
PBL anchorage SF305, SF405 and SF505 for multi-strand bonded flat duct sys-tem were used for the pro-ject. The typical span was 17.45m by 13.25m with variation PT beam e.g. 1.5m x 0.5m, 1.8m x 0.6m, 2.4m x 1.0m (wxt). The basement floor slabs withstood the design superimposed dead load (S.D.L.) of 500 kg/sq.m
and live load (L.L.) of 400 kg/sq.m while ground floor and roof floor slabs withstood S.D.L. of 500 kg/sq.m and L.L. of 100 kg/sq.m.
Project Team Work
The factory construction has been responsible under the following pro-fessional team work.
EPT was responsible for the PT mate-rial supply and post tensioning design by Eng. Hossam Salem & Eng. Ah-med Farhan, who ws the design engi-neer of EPT under supervision of Eng. Abdel Ruhman Al Fart, who was a consultant engineer of SOOR Engineering Bureau. The construc-tion has been done under taking care of Eng. Ashraf Fahmy, the contractor project manager of CMBC-Construction Management & Build-ing Company.
“EPT have been awarded from National Canned Food Product & Trd., Co. & DANIAH to start 4 storey with total area of 8,390 sq.m of Juice Production Factory at Kuwait.”
Joining the flat duct with duct coupler
PBL anchorage SF305 installation
Tendon stressing for PBL anchorage SF305
PT tendon lay out ready for concreting
Basement roof slab tendon layout
Contributed by: Eng. Amr Ali M El Fadil, Regional Operation Manager of Emirates Post Tension LLC.
Eng. Ahmed Farhan, a PT Design Engineer for this project of Emirates Post Tension LLC.
On the occasion of hosting the prestigious Common Wealth Game 2010 in New Delhi - Central Public Works Department, Government of India were assigned to im-prove the roads infrastructure in the city of capital of India, New Delhi.
The 2010 Common Wealth Game are the 19th Common Wealth Game, and the 9th to be held under that name. The Games were scheduled to be held in Delhi, India between 3 October and 14 October 2010.
CPWD and Delhi Develop-ment Authority DDA - were engaged in developing several projects to meet the raising road traffic in New Delhi City.
As a part of infrastructure develop-ment, several stadiums - construction of new stadiums as well as renovating the existing stadiums, grade separa-tors, road underpasses, flyovers and approach structures were proposed to be constructed across New Delhi City.
Afcons Infrastructure Limited (SP Group) - leading infrastructure com-pany were awarded several road and
flyover works in the CEG - 2010 (Common Wealth Game 2010) scheme.
Apsara Border in situated in the out skirts of New Delhi, connecting neiboring state of Uttarpradesh where the most traffic congestions were common.
Salient Features of Grade Separator
A flyover with 3 lanes, 9m each way, dual carriage way was proposed on GT Road party in UP on GT Road. Underpasses on either side of the existing will have a raft
supported by 776 numbers of vertical soil anchors and ROB approaches were strengthened and restored by 154 numbers of horizontal soil anchor on Road No. 56 to Seemapuri and visa versa. Rotary proposed below flyover for right turning movements.
Pedestrian Facilities Provided
• Owner and Project Supervision : Public Works department (PWD - Delhi)
• Main contractor and client to Tech9 : M/s Afcons Infrastructure Ltd. (SP Group)
• Third party quality assurance by : Delhi College of Engineering.
• Proof Consultant : M/s B&S Engi-neering Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Application of PT in the Project (Horizontal & Vertical Anchors Por-tion) 840 KN Capacity Horizontal Anchors 154 Number at 4 Layers:
The purpose of introducing horizon-tal soil anchor system was to retain the earth on either sides of existing embankment connecting to rail over bridge.
By retaining the earth, the underpass box pushing system as well as the either side carriage way construction was provided the adequate working space.
800KN Capacity Vertical Anchors 776 Numbers at Different Locations:
The underpass of the grade separator consisted different level raft portion which in turn would get a huge amount of upward water thrust due to the project was situated very near to Yamuna river banks.
The lower levels of concrete rafts were very close to the water tables, hence it was decided to retain the raft in position and to withstand the up-ward thrust due to the ground water pressure the raft was provided with vertical soil anchors on either side of raft.
Tech9 Scope : Fabrication of rock anchors both horizontal and vertical, homing, grouting and stressing com-plete. Complete technical support in terms of design and execution.
“On the occasion of hosting the prestigious Common Wealth Game 2010 in New Delhi, construction of new stadiums as well as renovating the existing stadiums, grade separators, road underpass, flyover and approach structures were proposed to construct across New Delhi City.”
4th Stage Anchor Installation Level and Vertical Anchor Section at Un-derpass Location
Cross Section View near Box Pushing Location
Milestone of the Project:
• August 2009: Performance, creep, proof and pull out test successfully completed by Tech9 on test an-chors as per BS 8081 and project specification.
• October 2009: CPED approval for Tech9 Engineering as a specialist pre-stressed anchor subcontractor.
• May 2010: Successful completion of Horizontal anchors.
Sequence of construction– Horizontal Anchors
Contiguous Piling
Excavation Till Anchor Level and Anchor Stressing & Grouting
STAGE - IEXISTING 4 LANE ROAD
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During 3rd level excavation view of waler beams
“A flyover with 3 lanes, 9m each way, dual carriage way was proposed on GT Road partly in UP on GT Road. Rotary proposed below flyover for right turning movements. Pedestrian facilities provided.” Stressing of horizontal anchor from
both ends
STAGE-III
HORIZONTAL ANCHOR STRESSED FROM BOTH ENDS
EXISTING 4 LANE ROAD
1st LEVEL EXCAVATION 2M
CAPPING BEAM WALER BEAM
STAGE-IV
EXISTING 4 LANE ROAD HORIZONTAL ANCHOR STRESSED FROM BOTH ENDS
CAPPING BEAM WALER BEAM
2nd LEVEL EXCAVATION 6M
1st LAYER ANCHORS
2nd LAYER ANCHORS
HORIZONTAL ANCHOR STRESSED FROM BOTH ENDS
STAGE-V
EXISTING 4 LANE ROAD
3rd LEVEL EXCAVATION 10M
CAPPING BEAM WALER BEAM
1st LAYER ANCHORS
2nd LAYER ANCHORS
3rd LAYER ANCHORS
STAGE-VI
EXISTING 4 LANE ROAD HORIZONTAL ANCHOR STRESSED FROM BOTH ENDS
4th LEVEL EXCAVATION 14M
CAPPING BEAM WALER BEAM
1st LAYER ANCHORS
2nd LAYER ANCHORS
3rd LAYER ANCHORS
4th LAYER ANCHORS
RAFT LEVEL
EARTH
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EXISTING 4 LANE ROAD HORIZONTAL ANCHOR STRESSED FROM BOTH ENDS
4th LEVEL EXCAVATION 14M
VERTICAL ANCHORS
EARTH
RAFT LEVEL
EARTH
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CAPPING BEAM
WALER BEAM
1st LAYER ANCHORS
2nd LAYER ANCHORS
3rd LAYER ANCHORS
4th LAYER ANCHORS
EARTH
RCC BOX PUSHING UNDER RAILWAY TRACK
VERTICAL ANCHORS
VERTICAL ANCHORS
VERTICAL ANCHORS
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Horizontal Anchor System: M605 (modified from M705) - System Both End Stressed Simultaneously
Step 1: Drilling horizontally from both sides.
Step 2: Fabrication of horizontal anchors
Step 3: Installation of anchors into drilled holes
Step 4: Waler beam erection on either sides of approach carriage way
Step 5: Stressing of anchor simulta-neously from both end
Step 6: Grouting of anchors
Vertical Anchor System
M306 system adapted - anchor length (17m - 10m fixed length and 7m free length)
Step 1: Cutting of strands to required length
Step 2: Corrosion protection in free and fixed length
Step 3: Bond breaker, internal grout vent fixing
Step 4: Drilling with TG-20 rig ma-chine
Step 5: Homing of anchor and grout-ing simultaneously during extraction of casing pipe
Step 6: Allow the grout to set
Step 7: Stressing of anchor to re-quired load and locking - grouting of anchor pit
Project Team Work
Project was led by Mr. Jagadeesh, who was a site engineer of Tech9 Engineering supported by team of foremen and PT workers of 25 semi skilled category.
Drilling of holes, rock anchor fabrication, grouting, stressing and installation was done on day/night shift ba-sis to cope up with site construction speed.
For the both horizontal and vertical anchor portion, the project works coordinated by client project head Mr. MM Payak and Dy PM Mr. A
“The purpose of introducing horizontal soil anchor system was to retain the earth on either sides of existing embankment connecting to rail over bridge.”
1st Layer anchor stressing in progress
Stressing of vertical anchor in progress
During drilling and homing
Homing of anchor after drilling
Grouting of vertical anchors
4 Layers of waler beam with anchors
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Thakurtha of M/s Afcon Infrastruc-ture Limited and supervision by the NODAL OFFICER Mr. Kailash Naryan EEN and Mr. BP Singh - AEN of PED Department Delhi.
From head office, operations director, Mr. BV Nagarajkumar, controlled the major procurement and logistic re-quirements and of complete technical coordination required for manpower deployment and equipment deploy-ment. Mr. V Shekar MD of Tech9 and Mr. Nagarajkumar visited site fre-quently to monitor the entire project on terms all technical aspects and kept the client and consultants satisfied with the Tech9 services.
Mr. BVSSP Sastry, procurement in charge from Tech9 head office, Hy-derabad and his team closely coordi-nated the procurement to meet the tight schedules of the project.
Thanks to the entire team of PWD and Afcons Infrastructure, who ren-dered their cooperation during nights and days to complete soil anchors in successful manner.
View of 4 layer anchors and box pushing for underpass near rail tracks
View of vertical anchor pits in raft grouted
This project is under progress and expected to be completed by August 2010.
Inspection of permanent vertical an-chor during fabrication
During performance test of vertical anchors
Contributed by: Mr. BV Nagarajkumar, the Operation Director of Tech9 Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd., India
“By retaining the earth, the underpass box pushing system as well as the either side carriage way construction was provided the adequate working space.”
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Marrakesh Hua Hin Residences
Hua Hin city is Thailand’s oldest and famous beach town resort for travel-ers in Thailand situated on the west coast of the Gulf of Thailand and only 200 kilometers from the capital city, Bangkok. It is one of eight dis-tricts of the Prachuap Khiri Khan Province and offers the ultimate gateway destination for the city’s elite.
New Hua Hin con-dominium property, Marrakesh Hua Hin, is centrally located in the heart of Hua Hin, a vaca-tion town for Thais and a retirement home for many Europeans. This residential resort development is de-veloped on freehold land with direct access to the beach. It links to a neighboring luxury hotel and enjoys wide sea views.
strip provided for from 2nd floor upto roof floor. The pour strips facilitated both construction cycle and tension-ing of the PT tendon. For other 5 building condominiums consisted 4 storeys + roof floor.
The buildings were constructed using PBL post tensioning system. The slab thickness was 230mm with typical span 22.0m x 25.0m. PBL anchorage type SF205, SF305, SF405 and SF505 with multi strand flat duct bonded system were used for the project.
Project Team Work
The architectural function was de-signed by Palmer & Turner (Thailand) Ltd. while the PT design, installation and material supply were taken care by PBL Group Ltd. The construction was done by Standard Performance Company Limited under supervision of the CEL Engineers Limited, the consultant of the project.
The super luxurious beachfront con-dominium plus a magnificent five star hotel can be found only in Hua Hin with its authentic features of Mo-rocco style is launched by Major De-velopment Public Company Limited with 3,000 million Baht.
The project consisted 12 buildings which 5 buildings were intended for hotel and 7 buildings were for resi-dence condominium with total area 16 rai (Thai unit of land area equiva-lent to 25,600 sq.m). Best of all, it stands on a 90 meter breath taking beachfront for ultimate relaxation. A high standard of specification are provided in each apartment, and a wide variety of facilities and features are provided in the property’s com-
mon area including infinity-edge swimming pool with Moroccan style lagoon, private garden, multipurpose landmark pavilion, children’s pool with water slide and the children’s playground, fitness center, glamorous lobby and 24 hours security system.
Post Tensioning Feature
The project divided to 4 storeys + roof floor for 5 building hotels and 7 residence condominiums. The condo-minium comprised 9 storeys + roof floor of building 1 and 2 with pour
Luxurious contemporary Morocco style condominium, Marrakesh Hua Hin
Hua Hin beach
Construction progress of the project
5th –7th floor tendon layout for building 1
Contributed by: Mr. Banluesak Pattanasing, a Project Engineer of PBL Group Ltd.
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“Major Development Public Company Limited invested 3,000 million Baht for New Hua Hin Condominium property, Marrakesh Hua Hin Residence with its authentic features of Morocco style.”
