Horizontal Translocation of a High-Rise Building: Case Study
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 27, Issue 3
Abstract
This case study presents the horizontal translocation of the Hongxing Mansion, a high-rise building in China, which was moved transversally for 26 m because of modifications in urban planning. The 13-story RC frame-wall structure was built in 2002 with a total height of 63.2 m and a total weight of 109,881 kN, making the project unique as compared with other similar cases. The executive process of this project is introduced, including the initial planning, design, and construction procedures. A load underpinning system was proposed that can transfer the vertical loads uniformly to the rails and distribute the propelling loads from the loaded end to the other end of the building. Anchor-jacked piles were used at the original foundation from the limited indoor clear height so that rails in the original basement can be well supported without the need of large piling machines. A special moving system was proposed and successfully applied, which combined the advantages of pull and push, so that the efficiency and stability of moving were guaranteed. The removable reaction frames were used to alleviate the energy accumulation in tendons and the sudden energy release when the building started to move. Finally, the columns and walls were connected with the new foundation without diminishing their seismic capacities. The design and construction methods in this project provide references to buildings in need of translocation.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
Acknowledgments
Financial support from the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, the State Key Lab of Subtropical Building Science, South China University of Technology under Grant No. 2010KB05, and a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions is gratefully appreciated.
References
Chinese National Standard of the People’s Republic of China. (2002). “Code for design of concrete structures.” GB 50010-2002, Beijing (in Chinese).
Eskins, W. A. (1998). “Construction of the new Coleman Bridge: Fifth Roebling lecture, 1997.” J. Constr. Eng. Manage., 124(3), 173–175.
Guo, T., Wu, E. J., Li, A. Q., Wei, L. W., and Li, X. P. (2011). “Integral lifting and seismic isolation retrofit of great hall of Nanjing Museum: Case study.” J. Perform Constr. Fac., 26(5), 558–566.
Koster, G. J. (2001). “A mammoth building.” Struct. Mover, 19(4), 52–59.
Telem, D., Shapira, A., Goren, Y. D., and Schexnayder, C. J. (2006). “Moving a reinforced-concrete building: Case study.” J. Constr. Eng. Manage., 132(2), 115–124.
Wu, E. J., and Li, A. Q. (2008). “Technical code for building monolithic moving engineering of China. Creating and renewing urban structures.” Proc., 17th Congress of Int. Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Zurich, Switzerland, 514–515.
Xu, X. D. (2001). “Eight-story masonry move in China.” Struct. Mover, 19(2), 10–13.
Zhao, Y., Wang, J. F., and Pang, M. (2011). “The integral lifting project of the Qifeng Bridge: Case study.” J. Perform. Constr. Facil., 26(3), 353–361.
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 27 • Issue 3 • June 2013
Pages: 235 - 243
Copyright
© 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Received: Aug 10, 2011
Accepted: Dec 15, 2011
Published online: Dec 20, 2011
Published in print: Jun 1, 2013
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.