Atlas Copco’s XATS760Cd air compressors have been providing essential airpower for tools to remove the tops of bored piles so as to make them ready for the fabrication of pile caps and basement slab on Dubai’s Jumeirah Beach Residence.

The XATS760Cd, which provides a free air delivery of 357 litres/sec at bar 10.3, has been working round-the-clock to complete the proposed foundations and slab, says a spokesman for the Belgium-based manufacturer.
Dutch Foundation Company initiated piling works in the first two sectors of the development in December last year, with two other sectors starting shortly afterwards.
In preparing the site for foundations and piling, earthmoving contractors moved more than 450,000 sq m of earth. The company is now boring a variety of piles ranging in diameter from 800 mm to 1000 mm and lengths vary from 18 m to 36 m depth.
On completion of the proposed first tower’s piles, the contractor used jackhammers powered by the Atlas Copco compressor to remove up to a metre of concrete, leaving the reinforcement exposed for the pile caps and basement slab, he says.

Lighting tower debut
The Dutch Foundations Company is also using a rental Atlas Copco QAS14 generating set and floodlight tower for the first time in Dubai to ensure safe night-time operations.
Rated at 13 kVA at 50 Hz, the QAS14 also provides 9 kW lighting power for a trailer mounted floodlight mast.
Aftersales back-up for both the floodlight tower and the XATS760Cd compressor is provided by Inma, the Atlas Copco local distributor for the UAE.
Jumeirah Beach Residence, which forms part of possibly the largest ‘package’ of the Dubai Marina development, has been described as the largest planned waterfront development of its kind in the world. The marina will be the region’s first ‘intelligent city’ and will eventually house 35,000 people in luxurious residential towers, villas and hotels.
Covering an area of 4.5 sq km and featuring a 3.5 km-long man-made lagoon, it will provide almost 9 km of marina frontage; starting at the Dubai International Marine Club and returning to the ocean just beyond the Sheraton Jumeirah, some 25 km from Dubai’s city centre.
The project, located along much of the beachside of the marina, will eventually feature 36 residential and four tower hotels to provide a luxury prestigious development comprising 6,500 housing units, luxury apartments, penthouses and beach clubs.
It will provide 22 million sq ft of gross floor area along a 1.7 km frontage for project developer Estithmaar Realty.