U-Bora Towers Truss Installation Update

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Uploaded by on Feb 22, 2010

U-Bora Towers is a 2 Million Sqft mixed use development Business Bay. It started in August 2006 and is anticipated completion is to finish end of this year. It is developed and built by Bando Construction and Engineering of South Korea. It was designed by Aedas, the same designer as the famous mono-rail stations in Dubai.
The residential build has only 4 floors remaining to complete. Today we installed a bridge as the lower part of the building has no floors below it. The cladding of the residential tower will start in 2 months, the commercial tower has already 50% cladding
Today we installed the bridge between core 1 and 2 of the residential building. On floor 14, the two sides of the building meet. To do this a steel frame was constructed on-site, and then lifted into position using
We used Techno Steel as Steel Works Sub-contractor who manufactured the steel truss, VSL was used to jack the frame into position.
Quick Facts
2000 Steel Pieces
20,000 Steel Bolts
280 Tonnes = Same as an Emirates A380
Total Size 40Mlong, 8M width and 4M depth
Largest steel bridge on a residential building in UAE.
Time taken in total to Raise 60M, = 3 Hours.
Total Cost of Works, approximately $1M USD

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