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Background
This
is a landmark building that on completion will be the highest in Eastern
Africa. It comprises a 38-storey office tower, a 7-storey banking complex
and an 11-split storey car park. Total area covered is 60,000m2, all in
reinforced concrete construction.
The
building has been designed to resist earthquakes and to repel all forms of
forced entry into the main vaults. Foundations comprise 2 deep basements
sitting on a reinforced concrete raft varying in thickness from 0.9m to
3.0m.
A key feature of the design was to
assess the seismicity of the area and to generate loading data to enable a
computerised time-history analysis. This resulted in a safe yet economical
aseismic design.
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Project
Data
Client:
Central Bank of Kenya
Structural/Civil
Engineers: Howard Humphreys (Kenya) Ltd
Architects:
Triad Architects
Quantity
Surveyors: Armstrong & Duncan
Completion
Date: May 2000 |
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