The Shard: structural engineering

Stlbyggnadsdagen 2012
Height: 3
Storeys: 72
Client: Sellar Prope
on behalf of LBQ
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Works
Adamson Assoc
Structural engineer: WSP Gr
Services engineer: A
Project manager: Turner + Town
Cost consultant: Davis Lang
Main contractor: M
Piling: Stent Foundat
Steel: Severfield R
Concrete: Byrne Brot
edom Tower 541m Eiffel Tower 324m Shard at London Bridge 306m One Canada Square
Gross internal area: 127,000 m2 1,367,000 sq
Net internal area: 85,000 m2 915,000 sq
Residential: 5,800 m2 62,000 sq
Hotel: 17,800 m2 192,000 sq
Offices: 55,200 m2 594,000 sq
Retail 5,600 m2 61,000 sq
Volume of concrete: 54,000 m3 22 Olympic swimming poo
Weight of steel: 11,000 tons
ifts: 44
Area of faade: 56,000 m2 8 football pitche
Population 8,000 Burnham-on-Crouc
Car parking spaces: 48
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Apartments

Hotel

Restaurants

Offices
Offices
L07 2,900 m2
L28 1,350m2
Restaurants
L31 1,200m2
Hotel
L37 1,000m2
L50 670m2
Apartments
L53 600m2
L65 270m2
C of G
rectilinear tower

C of G
Shard
 wing wall
shard 1
winter garden

mini backpack
(to L20)
backpack (to L1

shard 18

main core

backpack core
 Jubilee line

London Bridge
station arches
Southwark
Towers

Guys
hospital
 Top of raft slab -9m River terrace grave
-13.4m

London clay

Secant pile wall -30m/-35m

female pile
960 dia
Lambeth group

-45m/-51m

TOE LEVEL

Secant pile wall Main bearing Thanet sand

male pile piles
1000 dia 1500-1800 dia -59m/-65m

Chalk
 15 total stat
~ 900 monitoring tar
op down 1: secant piled wall
op down 2: bearing piles and plunge columns
op down 3: L00 slab; excavation to B2
op down 4: core slipform set up at B2
op down 5: core slipform started; excavation to B3
op down 6: first hold point L00 and B2 slabs connected
 Faade -

op down 7: second hold point full depth excavation

op down 8: B3 slab cast; core walls completed
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Concrete

Steel
L09
L23
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Efficient use of materials
GGBS in concrete (70% in B3 slab saved
700 tons of cement)
Public transport hub
Mixed use building
Combined heat, cooling and power
Faade and automatic blinds
BREEAM brown roof
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L78
L78