Geotechnical Engineering of the 600 m Chicago Spire
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
William Walton
Darren Diehm Joseph Burns Fernando Sarabia Garret Browne Suzanne Provanzana |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Chicago 2008 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 614-615 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| Year: | 2008 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137908796294243 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The 600 meter high Chicago Spire, being developed by Shelbourne Development, is now under construction. Santiago Calatrava provided the architectural and engineering design, Thornton Tomasetti is the structural engineer of record, and STS is the geotechnical engineer of record for the project. The Chicago Spire has a very innovative structural system that is a true integration of architecture and engineering. While the project will be very well known as the tallest building in North America, it will also have the deepest basement in Chicago. The top-down method of construction will enable the tower construction to commence much earlier than the conventional bottom-up method. Because of the depth of the excavation and the proximity of adjacent structures, a significant analytical effort to predict and monitor ground movements is being conducted in concert with the construction. |
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| Keywords: |
finite element FE Instrumentation geotechnical caissons High rise slurry wall secant pile wall performance modelling
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