Description
Its 142 m and 42 floors make the Upsite Tower the tallest residential building in Belgium and the first skyscraper built in Brussels in the past 30 years.
Apart from flats, it will also accommodate offices, car park and garages, restaurants, shops, etc.
The floor height ranges between 3.1 and 3.75 m, and the slab thickness between 0.24 and 0.28 m.
ULMA Solution
The core of the building was built with the ATR self-climbing system and narrow platforms for inside shafts with vertical beam-based formwork which provided the required versatility.
The working cycle achieved with the self-climbing system was 7 days. Platforms with a maximum width of 12 m and narrow platforms and solutions for inside shafts were applied.
Aluminium panels were used as slab formwork. Two sets of props increased efficiency by being able to recover most of the formwork before hardening of the concrete was completed.
The HWS Hydraulic Windshield System increased workers' safety at the slab edge with large hydraulically lifted screens covering the entire perimeter of the building.
