Project information Louvre Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) Louvre Abu Dhabi’s exterior with Abu Dhabi’s skyline (night) © Louvre Abu Dhabi, Photography: Mohamed Som Project description mageba scope Highlights & facts The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, an af- mageba supplied four large filiate of the renowned Louvre Museum RESTON®PENDULUM bearings (type mageba products: in Paris, is located on the Saadiyat Island. Mono) to support the museum’s enor- Type: RESTON®PENDULUM In November 2017 the museum opened mous roof. These bearings are designed seismic isolators (type its doors to the public after ten years of to carry vertical loads of up to 33,000 kN Mono) for loads of up to planning and construction time. Designed each and to allow horizontal sliding move- 33,000 kN by the French architect Jean Nouvel, the ments of up to +/- 315 mm. Testing: Caltrans SRMD, USA museum building is a fitting venue for the The contract to supply the bearings includ- Installation: 2015 world-class art collections to be hosted in ed a provision for full-scale testing to be Structure: the years to come. carried out prior to the use of the bearings City: Abu Dhabi The building’s most striking feature is its in the structure. This testing was success- roof, a beautifully designed dome with a fully completed in 2014, at the SRMD test- Country: United Arab Emirates diameter of 180 m and a weight of approx- ing facility of the University of California, Type: Art museum imately 8000 tonnes. The web-patterned San Diego – one of the world’s foremost Completed: 2017 dome allows the sun to filter through, institutes for testing of this kind. Roof span: 180 m much like rays of sunlight passing through Architect: Jean Nouvel palm branches in an oasis. Engineer: Buro Happold The museum was built in Abu Dhabi, the largest of Testing of an isolator at the SRMD testing facility of A RESTON®PENDULUM bearing (type Mono) as the seven United Arab Emirates the University of California, San Diego fabricated, showing its spherical sliding surfaces Abu Dahbi © 2012 Google Version 2017.11 CH-EN ©mageba mageba sa - Solistrasse 68 - 8180 Bülach - Switzerland - T +41 44 872 40 50 - [email protected].