The

Rising Symbol
of
West China
Raffles City Chongqing
- Singapore 18th Oct 2019
Singapore | Marina Bay Sands
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Chongqing China
山之城 重庆
RCCQ

Raffles
Mainland
CitySTR
Chongqing
Design
- -Singapore
Hong Kong18th19Oct
th March
2019 2019
 The 10th and the
largest Raffles
City in the world

• Total construction floor

area exceeds
1,120,000m2

• Transportation hub
with bus terminals,
ferry terminals, metro
stations

• Two number of 350m

high towers with
slenderness over 9.5

• Four number of 250m

high towers with a
300m long sky bridge
conservatory sitting on
top of the towers
Arup Involvement
Innovative Design Solution Innovative Design
Multi-disciplinary
services：
- Fire engineering
- Sustainability and
Green certification
- Structural
Engineering

BIM & 3D Site Slope

Structural Engineering：
−Concept Design
−Scheme Design
−Preliminar y Design
−Tendering
−Construction Drawings
Design
−Construction
Administration
−Resident Site Ser vices
Advanced North Towers
Conservatory
• Articulation

Technology • Super slender

tower structural
system
T3N T4N • Seismic Design
• Heavy steelwork lifting

Design • Mega column

design

and
• Hybrid outrigger
system with South Towers
structural fuse • Curved towers

Construction • Multi-tower analysis

T2 T3S T4S T5

Soil Soil
Bed Rock

Foundation
Podium and Basement
Slope • Very large hand-dug caisson design and
• Very long concrete structures without MJ
• Slope stability construction
• Long span steelwork • Mixed use of hand-dug caisson &
analysis
• Anti-Sliding Piles machined bored pile
Hybrid outrigger system
with structural fuse
for tall buildings
CIC Construction Innovation Award 2019
How outriggers work

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 Concrete Outrigger Wall System
Concrete OR
Wall

Challenges and limitation

 Stress concentration
 Brittle failure, little ductility
 Space restriction

Completed in 1988
Traditional
outrigger
system

Challenges and limitation

1. Construction complexity
2. High material cost
3. Seismic design
consideration
4. Time – critical path
An
outrigger
that is structurally

safe, easy
and
economical
to build
Efficiency Comparison Design
-The economic challenges from client
&
Experiment

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replace
with a
video

EFM & 1:1 Experiment Raffles City Chongqing

-The safety challenges from Experts - Singapore 18th Oct 2019
 Structural
System

Performance
Objectives
Used in real project
For the

1st time
In

RCCQ

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Achievement and Outcome

HK$50M 4 MONTHS PATENT

saving in shortened in construction CTBUH Award
material cost programme Contractor Appreciation
(10% reduction in steel tonnage)

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 Get Patent
&
CTBUH-CITAB
Innovation Reward、
HK CIC Innovation
Reward

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Conservatory

Length：300m
Width：30m
Height：22.5m
Top Level：220.93m
Max. Span：54m
Cantilever Span：26.8m
Height from Ground：193m
 Link Bridge Comparison
MBS Sky park
• Connected Towers:3
• Length :340m
• Steelwork Tonnage: 7,700t
• Cantilever Length:65m

RCCQ Conservatory
• Connected Towers: 6
• Length :280m
• Steelwork Tonnage: 10,000t
• Cantilever Length:27.5m

Raffles City Chongqing

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 Conservatory
Connection Method
Comparison
 RCCQ
Connection
Plan
Comparison
All seismic isolation bearings Most are slide bearings, fix on one tower
seismic isolation bearings slide bearings

Disconnected on towers, some fixed on tower Fixed on towers

slide bearings disconnected on conservatory
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Plan Iteration

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 Analysis
Output
Examples for
Seismic
Shear Wall
concrete equivalent
compressive strain
Assessment

• Deformation
magnified x10

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Architectrue

Lab Experiment
Arup
Conservatory
Design
Combination Lab Experiment with
Digital
Construction simulation
BIM Multi-discipline Coordination

BIM

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- Singapore 18th Oct 2019
 Conservatory
Structural System

• Main Truss Main Truss

Main Truss + Sub Truss

• Sub Truss
Main Truss
Sub Bridge
• Horizontal Brace Sub Truss

Horizontal Brace

• Sub bridge
Main Bridge
Main Bridge

Horizontal
Main Truss Sub Truss Sub Bridge
Brace

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 High Level
Cantilever

• Cantilever from tower

top

• Complex use
(Observatory, bar,
restaurant)

• High architectural
appearance
requirement

• high observatory
platform

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 vibration RCCQ TMD MBS TMD
serviceability

• To propose tailored
acceptance criteria
of vibration for
different area

• TMD embedded in
steel beam to TMD
reduce vibration on TMD inside steel beam
glass observatory
platform

• To propose
management
control to meet the
acceptance criteria

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 Progressive Conservatory Analysis
Conservatory
Collapse Analysis:
Analysis Delete group of
supporters(V1\H1 and so on, as
shown in fig below) on the
tower, check the element in
• Conservatory area hatched in orange.
Analysis: Delete
some supporters
on the tower,
check the element
in area hatched in
orange.

• Tower Analysis:
Delete Tower Analysis:
intermediate small analysis cases:
Case 1 - to remove intermediate small gravity
gravity columns of columns and check the consequence on
tower then check surrounding elements during the extreme
conditions
surrounding
elements, or add Case 2 - to add an extreme large horizontal
load act accidental collision and check the
an extreme large safety of the corner mega columns
horizontal load
and check corner
mega columns
Tower Analysis Case 1 Tower Analysis Case 2
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Global Network
& ONE
Local experience

Boston
(45/10) Chongqing Beijing
(40/20) (150/30)

Shanghai
New York (250/50)
(350/70)

Hong Kong
(1800/300)
 The

Rising Symbol
of

West China