AGIR 2014 AWARD

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Established in 2007 as a necessity to respond to customer demand with both technically and economically feasible solutions, the Department unites expertise from both design and civil engineering. The department benefits from extensive experience in the field of construction, its staff and collaborators participating in the design and execution of the most important projects in […]

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Tuesday September 15th, 2015

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On the 11th of September 2015 POPP & ASOCIATII won the 2014 AGIR AWARD in “Civil and Industrial Buildings Engineering” domanin, by presenting the project: Rehabilitation and Structural Strengthening Process for the Patriarchate’s Palace, Bucharest.

The monument is of highly national significance, especially that it served as the seat of the Romanian Parliament for nearly a century. The building’s overhauling project is of increased difficulty. The most important elements that had to be takend into account were the wealth of architectural details, the building’s sheer volume and its location on an unfavourable, steep hill. The building’s seismic safety was increased by introducing reinforced concrete stiff cores, coupled together by newly cast rigid slabs. The adverse effects of the steep hill were adressed by introducing a „pile support wall”, along the monument’s outer perimeter. The piles were linked together with an extensive raft beam. Furthermore, a large number of horizontal and vertical steel tie thrusts were introduced in the building’s walls. The thrusts were placed in the longest wall boreholes ever made in Romania for such a project.