S6 GC Singapore Sky Park Listening

Watch from 19’49’’ to 22’12’’

What are the different elements of the structure of Singapore’s new sky park? What makes it very
special?

Singapore’s new sky park is the first of its kind, a steel structure longer than an aircraft carrier on top
of three skyscrapers taller than the Seattle’s Space Needle.

And on the Nothern end, the architect took this innovation one step further, creating the longest
cantilevered observation deck in the world.

It’s the biggest and heaviest section of the sky park and it hangs out two hundred feet over thin air.

When it’s done, the SkyPark is gonna look to the eye like one eleven hundred foot long
continuous element but the reality is it’s actually made up of two very different structural
conditions. Bridges on the one hand and something called the cantilever on the other, spanning
between towers 1 and 2 and towers 2 and 3 are two bridges basically acting like table tops.

Write everything you understand about the various forces at work / the cantilever.

The force goes from the bridge, transfers into the towers and down something called shear walls
into the foundations. Now the cantilever is different story, a cantilever by definition is a load
supported on only one side, so what you have here is a two hundred and eighteen foot long span
almost like a diving board perched out over nothing.

Intuitively that load wants to just twist off the building, so to keep it down they’ve put not one
but two seven hundred tons backspans holding down the cantilever. The two backspans weigh
as much as a fully loaded freight train, but that weight is critical to balancing out the cantilever
which will join out longer than a 747 from the end of tower 3.

How big is the cantilever ? How can they assemble the different elements of the structure ?

There are eight hundred and sixty tons of structural steel that make a big two hundred and
eighteen-foot-long enormous cantilever. It is so big that they actually assembled the entire unit
here on the ground before sending it all the way up there.

The cantilever is just too big to be raised in one single lift, instead it’s divided into 6 segments.
Once they ’re six hundred and fifty feet in the air, crews will have just one shot to fit them
together so before the segments can be lifted, they’re assembled on the ground to be sure that
each connection will fit perfectly. So these pieces behind me represent the very final pieces of
the cantilever to be assembled here on the ground, so once we get this and this bolted on that
massive cantilever, the lifts can begin.
Find the vocab in the video :
Porte-avion : aircraft carrier
Acier : steel
Peser : to weigh
Une charge : a load
Terrasse panoramique : observation deck
Équilibrer : To balance out
La travée : span
Murs de contreventement : shear walls
Équipe : crew
Travée arrière : backspan
(En) porte-à-faux : cantilever(ed)
Train de marchandise : Freight train (US) In the UK Goods train
Soulever : to lift