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Chicago Trump International Tower and Hotel ATION D S N IN U S T O I F T U P E T E DFI E DEEP FOUNDATIONS D Fall 2009 The Magazine of the Deep Foundations Institute Trump International Tower and Hotel: A Deep Foundation in a Challenging Urban Site Winner of the 2009 Outstanding Project Award Chicago’s River North urban neighborhood presented many Testing logistical challenges. First, due to the dense residential population, The city of Chicago building code defines solid rock as sound the city of Chicago limited allowable working hours between 8:00 unweathered rock without visible voids and having a minimum a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, making the of 8 ft of rock below bearing level free of detrimental voids, aggressive schedule even more daunting. Second, Trump Tower sits seams or fissures. In order to accurately define the elevation of on the former location of the Chicago Sun-Times building that was solid rock, AECOM (formerly, STS Consultants, LTD) per- demolished in 2004. To support the heavy loads imposed by formed preconstruction rock cores at each rock-socketed printing presses and paper storage, the 1950s-era Chicago Sun- caisson location. Times Building was supported by belled caissons. During its The rock caisson section of the Chicago building code includes construction, the transition between hand-dug caissons and a formula that allows for 100 tsf bearing capacity for drilling one mechanically drilled caissons had begun, but was not yet complete. foot into solid rock and a 25 tsf increase for each additional foot of Owing to the lack of mechanical belling tools, these caissons were embedment into solid rock to a maximum value of 200 tsf. To drilled to bearing elevations with powered equipment, then belled maximize design efficiency, a code variance was approved to by hand labor to 15 ft diameter. Fifty years after their completion, increase the allowable bearing capacity to 250 tsf with some of these hand-dug bells presented constraints where they confirmation testing by LoadTest on an 8-ft-diameter rock caisson. conflicted with 43 of the proposed Trump Tower rock caissons. The An Osterberg load cell on the bottom of the caissons was loaded to most severe of these conflicts meant that many hours had to be its maximum capacity of 750 tsf, and the engineers observed only spent cutting with a 10 ft 6 in core bucket through a large portion of negligible movement. the existing bell. When the size of the equipment and required Eventual acceptance testing of the caissons included crosshole accuracy are considered, the difficulty of starting this operation on sonic logging, sonic impulse response testing and full depth cores a 60° bell slope becomes clear. required by the city. Project Scope Construction of each caisson supporting the Tower began with installing approximately 40 ft of oversized temporary surface In addition to Tower construction, the project included the com- casing placed through urban fill, sand and clay to the top of caisson plete demolition and reconstruction of the adjacent Wabash Avenue elevation. Workers drilled an oversized open hole shaft down to viaduct and the construction of a pedestrian plaza to connect the about 80 ft below grade. Polymer slurry was added, and the shaft Tower to the city’s River Walk and the Wrigley Building. The entire was flooded to offset water pressure within the granular soils deep foundations system consists of the following: overlaying the bedrock. The excavation was then completed under Chicago’s dense riverfront neighborhood site presented many challenges, including a restricted work schedule • For the Wabash Avenue viaduct and pedestrian plaza, the foun- polymer slurry support to the top of rock, typically encountered dation includes 170 caissons, 3 to 5 ft in diameter with 9 to 15 ft approximately 100 ft below working grade. After the surface of the diameter bells bearing on Chicago hardpan approximately 80 ft rock was cleaned and leveled, a full length design diameter below grade. permanent steel casing was rotated through the weathered rock and Trump International Is OPA Winner • At the Trump International Hotel and Tower, there are 35 seated into solid rock. permanently cased caissons, 4 to 9 ft in diameter with 10 ft rock Osterberg load cell used at the site sockets bearing approximately 120 ft Standing 92 stories high and just over 1,362 ft tall, Chicago’s Trump Michigan Avenue and Chicago’s famed Magnificent Mile, the site is below grade to support the building’s peri- International Hotel and Tower is perfectly positioned at the center bound by the historic Wrigley Building to the east, Wabash Avenue meter. In addition, there are 22 perma- of one of the world’s most impressive skylines. to the north and west, and the Chicago River to the south. The nently cased, 10-ft-diameter caissons with The Tower serves as a link between its famous predecessors, building’s position along a bend in the Chicago River allows visitors 10 to 20 ft deep rock sockets bearing Willis Tower (formerly, the Sears Tower) to the south and the John and residents unobstructed views to the mouth of the Chicago approximately 120 ft below grade to Hancock Building to the north. Originally planned to be the world’s River and Lake Michigan. support the building’s core and having a tallest building, the project was scaled back when the developers capacity of approximately 40,000 kips. The started questioning the need for super-tall buildings after the Site Challenges latter are believed to be the highest- September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In its River North Underneath the site there are approximately 10 to 20 ft of sand and capacity single foundation elements in the neighborhood, Trump Tower dominates the skyline as a symbol of urban fill underlain by soft Chicago blue clay. At 75 ft in depth, the U.S. The high bearing capacity required a Chicago’s last great building boom, standing triumphantly over soft clay transitions into Chicago hardpan, a very hard till that was caisson concrete strength of 10,000 psi. other high-profile projects that have been postponed due to current consolidated by the glaciers over 10,000 years ago. Below the economic realities. hardpan, the till turns granular with cobbles, boulders and water It is often said that the three most important factors in real estate under pressure. Bedrock is about 100 ft below existing grade and are location, location and location. This maxim was not forgotten has a weathered surface with fractures and clay seams. by The Trump Organization when the site was selected for the Unweathered limestone bedrock is sound and hard with International Hotel and Tower. Located two blocks west of unconfined compressive strengths of 10,000 to 20,000 psi. 8 • DEEP FOUNDATIONS • FALL 2009 DEEP FOUNDATIONS • FALL 2009 • 9 Chicago’s River North urban neighborhood presented many Testing logistical challenges. First, due to the dense residential population, The city of Chicago building code defines solid rock as sound the city of Chicago limited allowable working hours between 8:00 unweathered rock without visible voids and having a minimum a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, making the of 8 ft of rock below bearing level free of detrimental voids, aggressive schedule even more daunting. Second, Trump Tower sits seams or fissures. In order to accurately define the elevation of on the former location of the Chicago Sun-Times building that was solid rock, AECOM (formerly, STS Consultants, LTD) per- demolished in 2004. To support the heavy loads imposed by formed preconstruction rock cores at each rock-socketed printing presses and paper storage, the 1950s-era Chicago Sun- caisson location. Times Building was supported by belled caissons. During its The rock caisson section of the Chicago building code includes construction, the transition between hand-dug caissons and a formula that allows for 100 tsf bearing capacity for drilling one mechanically drilled caissons had begun, but was not yet complete. foot into solid rock and a 25 tsf increase for each additional foot of Owing to the lack of mechanical belling tools, these caissons were embedment into solid rock to a maximum value of 200 tsf. To drilled to bearing elevations with powered equipment, then belled maximize design efficiency, a code variance was approved to by hand labor to 15 ft diameter. Fifty years after their completion, increase the allowable bearing capacity to 250 tsf with some of these hand-dug bells presented constraints where they confirmation testing by LoadTest on an 8-ft-diameter rock caisson. conflicted with 43 of the proposed Trump Tower rock caissons. The An Osterberg load cell on the bottom of the caissons was loaded to most severe of these conflicts meant that many hours had to be its maximum capacity of 750 tsf, and the engineers observed only spent cutting with a 10 ft 6 in core bucket through a large portion of negligible movement. the existing bell. When the size of the equipment and required Eventual acceptance testing of the caissons included crosshole accuracy are considered, the difficulty of starting this operation on sonic logging, sonic impulse response testing and full depth cores a 60° bell slope becomes clear. required by the city. Project Scope Construction of each caisson supporting the Tower began with installing approximately 40 ft of oversized temporary surface In addition to Tower construction, the project included the com- casing placed through urban fill, sand and clay to the top of caisson plete demolition and reconstruction of the adjacent Wabash Avenue elevation. Workers drilled an oversized open hole shaft down to viaduct and the construction of a pedestrian plaza to connect the about 80 ft below grade.
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