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Whooosh! Now you dont see it, now you do! This is mid-rise building in top gear. The Athletes Village project exemplifies a number of the advantages of light steel frame building forming the driving force that enabled the project to meet incredibly tight project deadlines and produce a high-quality end product.
In April of 2009, Mozambique took over hosting duties of the 10th All Africa Games from Zambia, who pulled out due to the global financial crisis. While hosts typically have four years for planning and implementing such events, Mozambique only had two short years as the Games dates were set for 3 to 18 September 2011. In addition to the construction of sports facilities and infrastructure development, one of the primary initiatives was the Athletes Village Project, which will provide lodging for the participants. The Athletes Village Project is on the main premises of the Games. The main stadium and facilities are located in Zimpeto, a suburb of Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. The purpose of the project is to house the majority of the 6 500 athletes from 48 African countries who will be competing in the Games. Upon conclusion of the Games, the buildings will be converted to resident housing for the people of Zimpeto. The Athletes Village consists of 27 apartment buildings, each four stories high with a total of 848 apartments. The total living space is over 97 000 square meters. The biggest challenge of this project was the extremely tight time frame to complete the 27 structures. In response, the general contractor, a consortium
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Developer/Owner: COJA_ Comisso Organizadora dos X Jogos Africanos Architect: Mota-Engil, Engenharia e Construo, SA Structural Engineer: Worthington Construction Group Quantity Surveyor: Mota-Engil, Engenharia e Construo, SA Project Manager: Michael Whitticar of Worthington Construction Group Main Contractor: Consortium between Mota-Engil / Soares da Costa Steelwork Contractor/s: Worthington Construction Group, Cosira Group, Mema Metalrgica da Matola Cold Form Steel Supplier: Vela Steel Building Systems and Worthington Construction Group Lining and Insulation Supplier: Saint-Gobain Construction Products (Pty) Ltd
of Mota-Engil and Soares da Costa, chose Worthington Construction Groups light steel framing system. Light steel framing was chosen as the structural system on this project for a multitude of reasons. By utilising load bearing LFS members (wall studs and floor joists) this project was able to take advantage of steels greater strength-to-weight ratio versus traditional methods of construction such as poured-in-place concrete. This framing system incorporates innovative time efficiency, resources, and engineering to produce a quality structure on a grand scheme. The floor framing system is ledger framed rather than traditional platform framed. This eliminates fire-blocking requirements, greatly improves time installing floor to floor shear connections and reduces wall layout time for the floor above. Each floor is sheathed with a galvanized metal deck, allowing MEP trades to install of their work before the self leveling floor underlayment (3500 psi) is poured. This unique floor underlayment is half the weight of structural concrete, thus reducing floor system dead loads and allows for a lighter foundation.
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meet incredibly tight project deadlines and produce a high-quality end product. Firstly, the design and planning their philosophy of standardisation certainly paid off. Secondly, the execution of the building process also illustrated the skill and experience of the team. Michael Whitticar. Jose de Almeida. David van Zyl. But the most spectacular feat was the speed with which the project was completed 848 three bedroomed apartments in 27 four storey blocks were completed in a little more than 7 months! Do the math that is one 4-storey block of apartments every 8 days. This truly remarkable speed of construction could not possibly have been achieved with conventional concrete and masonry building. Regardless of the outcome of the Games, Worthington and light steel frame building are the winners!
In this project, we were able to use local materials (South Africa's) and local man power, always thinking in how we can help local people increase their skills and their quality of life. Advantages in speed, efficiency, strength and innovation are the driving forces that enabled the Athletes Village Project to meet project deadlines and produce a highquality end product.
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Whooosh! Now you dont see it, now you do! This is mid-rise building in top gear. The Athletes Village project exemplifies a number of the advantages of light steel frame building forming the driving force that enabled the project to
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PROJECT TEAM Developer/Owner: Bjorn Kahler Architect: Virtual Architects Structural Engineer: Design Desk Project Manager: Shospec (Pty) Ltd Main Contractor: Shospec (Pty) Ltd Steelwork Contractor: Shospec (Pty) Ltd
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PROJECT TEAM Developer/Owner: Colors Packhouse (Pty) Ltd Architect: Johan Wessels Architect Structural Engineer: Element Consulting (Pty) Ltd Quantity Surveyor: Senekal Allen & Partners Project Manager: GEA Project Solutions Main Contractor: Murray & Roberts Construction Western Cape Steelwork Contractor: Light Frame Homes cc
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