Description:
Alongside the beach of Gulf Shores Alabama, a hotel chain called the Embassy Suites with 8 stories of 257 rooms and a 3-story parking garage. This hotel will consist of a venue for large spaces such as meetings and conventions with a retail space of 7,618 square feet on the bottom floor. It includes many modern amenities in each room and a large banquet convention center on the top floor. ULMA Form Works was proud to be a part of this project by overcoming limitations on its crane weight, which allowed us to work closely in accommodating the job plan with our products.
ULMA Solution:
This 8-story hotel with a 3-story parking garage attached to the side of the hotel with an array of high shoring materials, the MEGAFRAME system. A system designed to hold 20,000lb per frame making this an ideal selection for tall buildings, lobbies, mechanical floor and water storage tank. We also used our ALUPROP system, designed for the shoring of slab formwork and available to accompany any shoring tower. With our ENKOFLEX system, a beam formwork system that is easily adaptable to any slab size allowing it to be very versatile. Both our ALUPROP and ENKOFLEX systems were used for the shoring and re-shoring of this project. By then using our MEGAFORM forming system, a strong panel to mold the walls to ensure things the core walls of the hotel. This job had some limitations to overcome due to the crane weight and where they can pick to fly our systems to be utilized at the right moment. With our engineering team we were able to navigate the best solutions to fit this project and provide maximum support to avoid any potential conflicts.
