Saturday, April 17, 2010

CONSTRULAN 2010

CONSTRULAN 2010
Salón de la Construcción. Bilbao Exhibition Centre BEC, Barakaldo. 14-17 de Abril de 2010.

La visita a Construlan (aunque breve, apenas pude estar hora y media) fue muy productiva.

Comencé la visita en Viguetas Navarras, en la cual su Gerente, Luis Ilundain, muy amablemente me explico lo último en Prelosas, las prelosas Leca. Me comentó que estaban pensadas para una luz aproximada entre pilares de 7,5m, que la colocación era muy rápida y además estas nuevas prelosas incluyen ya 3cm de arlita en su parte inferior, para poder realizar rozas en el forjado para las instalaciones eléctricas.

CONSTRULAN 2010


Posteriormente me pasé por el stand de Lamistone, un producto nuevo y aún no muy conocido de esta empresa alicantina. Se trata de un revestimiento de láminas de piedra artificial de 2mm. Su colocación es muy rápida y el aspecto está bastante bien. No se realizan con moldes, consiguiendo que todas las láminas sean diferentes así que no existen 2 láminas iguales, como pasa con las piedras.



Luego encontré el Stand de la empresa Francesa Actis sobre aislamientos ultrafinos multireflectores, tema que siempre me había interesado, el saber cómo se conseguía un aislamiento altísimo en menos de 1cm. En la muestra que podéis observar, el aislamiento TRISO-MURS+ de un espesor de +-11mm equivale a 140mm de lana de vidrio.



En la visita también encontré a la empresa alemana Schwoerer Haus KG con sede en Barcelona, que ha construido casas sin calefacción, repito, sin calefacción. Ha realizado casas desde Alemania hasta Andalucía.
Me explicó que esto era posible en invierno, teniendo las mínimas pérdidas de calor en la vivienda. El aire se renueva, pero el calor que tiene el aire viciado se transmite al aire limpio que entra por el exterior. Por si fuese necesario, la instalación incluye tienen una bomba de calor.
En verano el sistema es inverso, estando bien aislada la casa del calor exterior. Me comentó que en unas viviendas realizadas en Toledo en pleno verano en el interior de la vivienda había 26ºC y en el exterior 47ºC.

CONSTRULAN 2010


Por último me pasé por la empresa Alemana Trotec, con sede en Valencia, dedicada a las geniales y carísimas cámaras termográficas y a sensores de humedad.



En la parte inferior os dejo todas las fotos que realicé en Construlan 2010.



Espero que quienes no hayáis acudido, la próxima vez tengáis la ocasión de estar.
¡Un saludo!

CONSTRULAN 2010


Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Amazing Facades

KIEFER TECHNIC - Dynamic Facade

More information: here, here and here.


SLIDING HOUSE - dRMM
Architects: dRMM (Alex de Rijke and Joana Pestana Lages)
Engineers: Michael Hadi Associates, Rutger Snoek, David Williams and Rob Hart.
More information: Here

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Iberdrola Tower by Cesar Pelli

Iberdrola Tower will be the tallest building in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain).

The famous architect Cesar Pelli, also made Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

Iberdrola Tower will have 41 floors and it will be 165 meters tall.

Construction Started in 2007 and it will be finish in 2011.


The property is Iberdrola and the constructors are Afer Group.

In the photos we can see the construction process in this phase:

The reinforced concrete structure, like in other skyscrapers, it is made by a concrete core where there will be the lifts and which also helps on the stability of the structure.

The concrete floors are made with a climbing or sliding formwork (example of an sliding formwork), which is sustained in the central core. In the Iberdrola Tower case they make 1 floor on 1 week and it slides up to continue building.

In most skyscraper the facade starts when the structure is not finished, because if not, the construction will delay a lot of time. Here we can see how the facade have been started and the structure haven´t been finished. In the photos we can see the sustentation of the facade glass to the slab.

If you have any cuestion of the construction, you can ask on my blog or in my personal email. I´m not participating in this building construction but if i can, I will help on your doubts.



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La Torre Iberdrola con sus 165 metros y 41 plantas, será el edificio más alto de Bilbao (Superando a la Torre BBVA de 97 metros) y de toda la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca.

Su famoso Arquitecto es César Pelli el cual tiene una gran experiencia en la construcción de rascacielos como por ejemplo las Torres Petronas de 452 metros en Kuala Lumpur.

La construcción comenzó en 2007 y esta prevista su finalización en 2011.

El promotor es Iberdrola, y la constructora el Grupo Afer.

En las fotos se puede apreciar el proceso de construcción en esta fase de la obra:

La estructura de hormigón armado, como en la mayoría de los rascacielos, esta realizada mediante un núcleo central que le da estabilidad a la estructura y en el cual se alojarán los futuros ascensores, un total de 21 en la Torre Iberdrola.

Para realizar la estructura del rascacielos se utiliza un encofrado trepante (ejemplo de encofrado trepante), el cual se sostiene en el núcleo central, y conforme se realizan los forjados y los muros del núcleo trepa hacia arriba para continuar con la siguiente planta. En el caso de la Torre Iberdrola se realiza una planta por semana.

Respecto a la fachada, como en la mayoría de los rascacielos, ésta comienza mientras se está realizando la estructura, ya que si no la obra tendría una duración mucho mayor. En estas fotos podemos ver como se ha empezado a colocar la fachada en una de las plantas y tambien se puede apreciar el sistema de anclaje de los paneles de vidrio a los forjados.

Si tenéis alguna pregunta sobre la construcción, o si participáis en la construcción de la Torre podéis hacer un comentario en el blog o escribirme a mi email personal. Yo no estoy participando en la construcción de este edificio, pero puede que alguna de las dudas sobre el proceso de construcción pueda resolveros.

También os recomiendo el blog:
Ya que suele adelantarnos siempre las noticias sobre las construcciones en el Gran Bilbao y entre ellas nos habla cómo no, de la Torre Iberdrola (web oficial).

Friday, June 5, 2009

Architecture in Bilbao

It´s a lucky to have born in Bilbao, and can contemplate this big architecture in the city.


Guggenheim Bilbao, by Frank O. Gehry
Isozaki towers (Isozaki Atea), by Arata Isozaki
Iberdrola Tower (Under construction), by Cesar Pelli

My first time shooting with a digital SLR camera, Canon Eos 450d 18-55mm.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Stonecutters Bridge


Stonecutters Bridge is the second longest cable-stayed bridge on the world, after the Sutong Bridge, also in China.

The bridge spans 1.596meters (5236feet) long and the main span has 1.018 meters (3.635 feet).

Stonecutters Bridge connects Nam Wan Kok, Tsing Yi Island and Stonecutters Island, crossing the Ramble Channel in Hong Kong.

The desing concept for the bridge was procured by Highways Department in Hong Kong, and a international competition winning the next group: Halcrow Group, Flint & Neill Partnership, Dissing+Weitling and Shangai Municipal Engineering Design Institute.

As sub-consultant: Ove Arup & Partners and Cowi A/S.

Constructors: Maeda - Hitachi - Yokogawa - Hsin Chong Joint Venture (JV)

Construction started on 27 April 2004 and is spected to be completed in 2009.

In the next video we can see how has been constructed the Stonecutters Bridge.

Stonecutters Bridge Construction 1/5



Stonecutters Bridge Construction 2/5



Stonecutters Bridge Construction 3/5



Stonecutters Bridge Construction 4/5



Stonecutters Bridge Construction 5/5


You can see more photos about the building of the bridge on the main goverment website.

From: youtube, wikipedia and bridge main website.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Burj Dubai - UAE


The Burj Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, is the tallest man-made structure on earth.

The Tower Architect Adrian Smith, worked with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) until 2006. His works includes several major Skyscrapers.

The promoter is Emaar Properties.
The architecture and engineering firm SOM is in charge of the project.
The primary builders are Smasung Engineering & Construction and Besix along with Arabtec.
Turner Construction Company are the construction managers.

This Supertall Skyscraper construction started on September 21, 2004 and spected to be completed on September 2009.

21 July 2007: Surpasses Taipei 101 whose heigth of 509,2 meters (1.671 ft)
17 January 2009: topped out at 818 meters ( 2.684 ft), with 160 floors.


Construction of Burj Dubai 1/6




Construction of Burj Dubai 2/6




Construction of Burj Dubai 3/6




Construction of Burj Dubai 4/6




Construction of Burj Dubai 5/6




Construction of Burj Dubai 6/6





Burj Dubai on April 2009




Burj Dubai on Google Maps



This is my second post about the Burj Dubai. (My first post contains more videos about the Burj Dubai)

More information here

Monday, April 20, 2009

Some demolitions

1) Two Skyscrapers demolitions

Demolition of the Agfa building, a small skyscraper in Munich



Demolition of the second tallest building ever exploited




2) A Stadium demolition




3) We must be carful with the demolitions...

Demolition without explosives




Demolition with explosives




4) ¿How strong are the structures?


On the 6th position...




On the 5th position...1/2



On the 5th position... 2/2




On the 4th position...




On the 3rd position...




On the 2nd position... 1/2    Huaquén Bridge (Chile)




On the 2nd position... 2/2    Huaquén Bridge (Chile)




On the 1st position...



Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Hoover Dam Bridge


Hoover Dam Bypass, officially called Mike O´Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, its one of the most spectacular concrete arch bridge. The bridge links the states of Arizona and Nevada across the Colorado river.

The total length of the bridge is 579 meters (1900 feet) and the road it´s 256 meters (840 feet) above the river. When complete, the 323 meter arch will be the forth longest concrete arch in the world.

The master design is by HDR Engineering, T.Y. Lin International desings the bridge and Sverdrup Civil Inc is designing the approaches.

Construction started on 2006 and it will be finished on 2010.

Next video, composed of 5 videos, explains the construction of the Hoover Dam bridge.


Building Hoover Dam Bridge 1/5




Building Hoover Dam Bridge 2/5




Building Hoover Dam Bridge 3/5




Building Hoover Dam Bridge 4/5




Building Hoover Dam Bridge 5/5




Tuesday, February 3, 2009

HSB Turning Torso

HSB Turning Torso is the tallest building in Scandinavia, having 54 floors and being 190 metres tall (623 feet). It´s located in the city of Malmö in Sweden.

It´s the first skyscraper made by the spanish world renowned architect and engineer,
Santiago Calatrava. The design is based on a white marble sculpture by Calatrava called Twisting Torso which represents a twisting human being. When Johnny Örbäck, former CEO of the Turning Torso contractor and Board Chairman of the Malmö branch of the co-operative housing association HSB, saw the sculpture in 1999, he contacted Calatrava to ask him to design a building using the same concept.

The skyscraper has got 147 luxury apartments and office spaces.

Its construction started in the summer of 2001 by Swedish
NCC constructors and it was inagurated on the 27th April 2005.

In the next video we can see how the workers built floor number 36 in just one week.

Turning Torso - Building the 36th floor. 1/5




Turning Torso - Building the 36th floor. 2/5




Turning Torso - Building the 36th floor. 3/5




Turning Torso - Building the 36th floor. 4/5




Turning Torso - Building the 36th floor. 5/5




From: wikipedia and youtube

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Kansai International Airport

Kansai International Airport is located on two artificial islands in the middle of Osaka Bay in Japan. It´s the first airport located on an man-made island.


The construction:

In 1987 the construction began.
In 1989 the sea wall of the first Island was completed.
In 1990 the 3km long bridge was finished.
Between 1991 and 1994 the Terminal was built. It was designed by the world renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, the same architect who designed the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

On the 19th April 2001, the airport was one of then ten structures which were given the "Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium" award by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

In the next video we can learn a lot of aspects concerning the building of the Kansai International Airport, like how to resolve the gradual sinking of the island, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of locating an airport in the middle of the sea.

Kansai International Airport 1/5




Kansai International Airport 2/5




Kansai International Airport 3/5




Kansai International Airport 4/5




Kansai International Airport 5/5




Kansai International Airport in the Google Earth


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From: wikipedia and youtube