Team Completes Big Lifts for Top Hat Linking Three Abu Dhabi Towers
In the first big lift, crews, using four hydraulic strand jacks, lifted the first platform, which weighed 850 tons, over four days.
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In the second big lift, the team followed a similar procedure ?for the second, almost identical platform, and each has an elliptical opening that measures approximately 25 meters in the long direction and 14.2 m in the short direction.
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Shams Gate's in Abu Dhabi.
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With the sequence almost done, after each platform was lifted, workers aligned, bolted and welded members and added infill steel.
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Shams Gate's prime contractor, Arabian Construction, and its steel fabricator-erector, Eversendai, developed a scheme that relied on first erecting sections of the 300 meter-long, two-story penthouse on low-level platforms and then hoisting the structures into place. The scheme was considered safet than erecting the elements piecemeal at an elevation of about 245 m.
