CUSTOMISED combinations of modern formwork systems from Peri have helped speed up work on a mixed-use high-rise development on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, UAE.

The two new distinctive towers with 58 and 55 floors respectively, stand out through their slim structural shape and feature a multiple-folded glass facade as an architectural highlight. The building complex offers a total of 200,000 sq m of floor space for a five-star hotel and apartments along with shopping and leisure facilities – including generously dimensioned parking decks.

Peri is the only formwork partner to the main contractor on the project, Arabian Construction Company (ACC), according to a spokesman for the German specialist.

Elaborating on the systems supplied for the project, the spokesman says: “Two rectangular-shaped reinforced concrete cores brace the 58-storey hotel tower. These were crane-independently climbed with the help of Peri’s ACS self-climbing technology with concreting cycle heights of 3.85 m. Peri’s Vario GT 24 girder wall formwork was used to form the up to 75-cm-thick walls.

“ACS R with Vario GT 24 allowed not only crane-independent but also safe working operations on four platform levels.”

“The 55-storey apartment tower has an unusually long central core with a length of 38 m and an 8-m width. Also for these 1-m-thick walls, as well as the return walls positioned on the left and on the right, a customised self-climbing system was used for the formwork, concreting and climbing procedures without crane support – likewise on the basis of the ACS system and Vario wall formwork.”

“The construction process was simplified and accelerated, thanks to Peri’s broad product range and the optimised logistical operations on account of having only one formwork partner,” he continues.

“For example, the Vario wall formwork system could be used in an extremely versatile fashion for forming the core walls as well as constructing the walls and columns in the base levels. In addition, SB brace frames, Multiflex slab formwork and PD 8 slab tables ensured that formworking operations were carried out very efficiently.

“PD 8 slab tables are extremely cost-effective as large units and for high clearances. The system has large spindling lengths, which allow easy adjustment to the different height requirements during the project.”

Work on the project has reached the halfway mark and is progressing steadily.

Founded in 1969, Peri is a family-managed company which over the years, has grown to become one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of formwork and scaffolding systems in the world and a skilled partner of construction companies.

With 5,200 employees, 48 subsidiaries and 100 high-capacity storage sites across the globe, Peri serves its customers with innovative system equipment and a broad range of services to realise construction projects in the most cost-effective manner possible.

It offers a broad range of equipment and systems to provide a solution for every requirement: formwork girders, panel and wall formwork, column formwork, slab formwork, climbing scaffold, platform systems, self-climbing formwork, shoring, slab props, push-pull props, formlining, brace frames for single-face concreting as well as anchoring systems.
Its innovative Gridflex aluminium girder grid slab formwork system won the EuroTest Prize at this year’s bauma, the world’s largest construction machinery fair, held in Munich, Germany.

The award recognised outstanding achievements by companies, organisations and individuals in the field of occupational safety and machine safety.