Description
This new large-scale housing scheme that is going to accommodate 15,000 public servants is located near the old Taguatinga Bus Station. The project comprises 14 buildings (10 4-storey and 4 15-storey), an administrative building, a shopping centre, a car park for 3,000 vehicles and a bicycle parking space at only 100 m away from the next metro and bus station.
Brazil’s Federal District Government ensures that, in addition to reducing operating costs by centralising public administration, it will be beneficial for practical reasons and to improve the efficiency of public services.
The contractor consortium responsible for the $600 million investment is CADF (formed by Odebrecht Infrastructure and Via Engenharia) in a public-private partnership with the federal district government.
ULMA Solution
With regard to construction technology, the BubbleDeck system is used. This revolutionary method reduces the amount of concrete thus producing lighter, but equally strong hollow slabs. Plastic spheres are placed between the top and bottom reinforcement to eliminate the concrete that has no structural function, thus significantly reducing slab weight.
ULMA's easily adaptable Table VR system was the perfect match for the BubbleDeck solution by combining utmost productivity with cost-effectiveness. At peak activity, more than 4,000 m² of VR tables with the corresponding number of EP props were used on the building site. The Table Formwork VR avoids dismantling for formwork repositioning.
Difficult access to the columns at the edge was provided by working platforms on BF-170 brackets. The system ensures workers' safety during formwork erection and concrete pouring.
Finally, BRIO Modular Scaffolding was used to provide safe and easy access for the workers to the different construction areas.
