New Office Building at Herzogenaurach, Germany
Description
The office building accommodates with its 50’000m2 area modern workplaces for about 2000 employees.
Well about 2m above ground, the 12’500t weighing steel structure was set up on 233 Hebetec «MegaTube» columns, on an area measuring about two soccer fields.
The impression of a floating building evolves by hoisting the structure another 12m. For this lift Hebetec Engineering utilised 76 jacks with 600mm stroke and 4 strand jacks H-140 with a total 38‘560t lifting capacity.
Grouped at four jacks each totally 19 lifting towers were arranged carrying the building load. The minutely level lifting into installation position was achieved by a synchronised hydraulic system. Jobreport
