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Liberty House, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
TRIO is climbing with the ACS-P system for the new landmark in the Dubai International Financial Center
Liberty House is located on Gate Drive of the Dubai International Financial Center district. The DIFC is located at Sheikh Zayed Road - behind the Emirates Towers and Dubai World Trade Center. Liberty House is the prominent new architectural landmark in DIFC. Contemporary in design, the tower is a reflection of the modernity of Dubai.
Liberty House is a forty-two storey structure with a height of 174 meters that offers eight floors of freehold open plan offices and twenty nine floors of luxurious apartments. The sophisticated and elegant facade of the building uses a mixture of glass with natural and artificial elements.
A special requirement that PERI had to fulfill was to use a climbing system that is 100% crane free. Therefore the PERI ACS-P was used - the self-climbing formwork scaffold with integrated working platforms for any building core arrangement. It provides the optimal solution for advancing cores in highrise buildings, and tower-like structures. The platforms (P = platform) form large-sized storage and working areas. With the ACS P system only very few platform beams cross the walls which has the advantage in that the reinforcement can be partially pre-assembled. The ACS P (P = platform) self-climbing system from PERI is a compact and complete forming machine for cores of highrise buildings and tower-like structures. A scaffold construction, adapted for the building, carries the whole weight of the construction including dead and live loads, e.g. quantities of reinforcement steel for each climbing section. No leading edges are created during climbing which could be a fall hazard. Great importance was attached to ACS P design that there was unhindered movement on all working levels. Site personnel should have free access to the formwork and climbing unit. The complete enclosure of the platforms, which provides protection against the wind, allows working and climbing to be carried out in all weathers. The comfortably designed platforms ensure safe and efficient working routines as on the ground.
A technical solution had to be found for very narrow core. The PERI VARIO system could not be used as there was not enough space for the workers left. The solution was to use PERI TRIO. Wall heights of up to 3.30 m can be formed using TRIO without extensions and with only two ties. TRIO requires only one part for all panel connections: the BFD alignment coupler. This formwork system could be easily used on the cores.
The duration of the project is supposed to be 24 months and therefore the project should be finished in 2008.
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PERI UP Rosett Shoring Tower
ACS R Self Climbing System
ACS P Self Climbing System
TRIO 330
VARIO GT 24 Girder Wall Formwork
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Shiv Kumar V Rao
Project Manager
“Our experience using PERI systems in our earlier projects and the fast cycle time required in this current project made us choose PERI systems again.”
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PERI (L.L.C.), United Arab Emirates
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