The Old Town in Aarhus Construction of 40 lm of drilled king post wall
For the construction of a new building in The Old constructing the retaining wall. Subsequently, the Town in Aarhus, Aarsleff has established a retaining installation of the king post wall could begin. wall to allow excavation along the neighbouring buil- ding as well as into an existing slope. During the installation, it turned out that there was a need for further anchoring of the wall. Even though Right from the beginning, we focused on establishing this appeared rather late in the process, we managed the retaining wall very carefully due to the geotech- to install the anchors with minimum impact on the nical conditions in the area as well as existing sett- time schedule. lement damage of the neighbouring building. In col- laboration with the client and the consulting engineer, As we had already identified settlement damage of we decided to carry out the wall as a drilled king post the neighbouring buildings, we monitored the sur- wall. rounding buildings during our work. In general, the monitoring showed that the deformations were below Construction of the king post wall the specified values, and subsequently, we could start When we established the work formation level, we on the work with foundations and floor slab as plan- discovered a number of cables in the ground, and we ned. helped the client relay the cables before we started
www.aarsleff.com Data Client Consulting engineer • 40 lm drilled king post wall: Den Gamle By GEO HE300B profiles of a length Viggo Madsen A/S up to 10 metres Contractor • 3 permanent soil anchors on Per Aarsleff A/S Construction period waling March-April 2019 • Excavation and disposal of Type of contract 1,200 m³ of soil Main contract Contract value DKK 2 million
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