Formwork, Shoring and Scaffolding Issue 1 | 2012 US
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Formwork, Shoring and Scaffolding | g Successful construction with PERI PERI UP Scaffolding Enclosure with Retractable Roof Heavy-Duty Shoring Tower VARIO Wall Formwork for Architectural Concrete

Cover Photo: Pennsylvania Power & Loight Holtwood Hydroelectric Plant (Page 10) To Our Valued Clients and Prospective Clients: In today’s intensely competitive construction market contractors demand the most cost effective solutions for their formwork, shoring and scaffolding requirements. At PERI, we constantly strive to offer the best technical solutions, logistics service and jobsite support to meet the needs of our clients to ensure their success. In this edition of PERIscope we prole a few recent projects that illustrate PERI’s range of systems and the advantages of sourcing all of a...

Massive Manufacturing Plant Project Requires Enormous Equipment Quantities to Meet Demanding Schedule Intel Fab 42, Chandler, AZ Dan Rupp, Superintendent: “The TRIO system allows us to prep, set and strip the forms in time to meet the tight schedule. There is no way we could have met the wall schedule of the project with another system.” When completed, Intel’s $5 billion Fab 42 will be the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in the world. Hoffman Structures chose PERI to supply the full scope of formwork to meet the aggressive schedule that required over 150,000 yd³ of...

Shoring Solution Tailored to the Customer’s and Market’s Requirements Ritz-Carlton Aruba Hotel, Aruba, N.A. Contractor Desarrollos Hotelco Aruba, Aruba, N.A. Field Service PERI Orlando, FL Juan Pablo Cordova, Superintendent: “PERI is like my best friend, we are partners. In this business you must have a team not just a supplier.” Beam tables consisting of MULTIFLEX shoring towers with beam walers support the beam soft and carry the slab stringers with the integral head spindles. Ritz-Carlton will expand its presence in the Caribbean with the new 320-room, $ 200 million Ritz-Carlton Aruba,...

Landmark Manhattan Skyscraper Constructed with RCS Perimeter Enclosure System One57, New York, NY RCS solution provided complete enclosure of the structure for the slab formwork level and three levels below and was designed to accommodate numerous changes to the building oor plan. Jimmy Faranda, Project Superintendent: “The closed formwork system allowed us to work safely in a protected environment.” Contractor Pinnacle Industries II, LLC, Harrison, NY Construction Manager Lend Lease, New York, NY Field Service PERI New York, NY and PERI Chicago, IL 6 Portable hydraulic pump can operate...

Critically Exposed Architectural Concrete Walls Achieved Using VARIO Formwork Edie & Lew Wasserman Building, Los Angeles, CA The six-story, 100,000 ft² Edie and Lew Wasserman Building is a major new research and patient-care facility at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute. Exposed interior concrete walls are a key architectural feature of the project. To achieve the required nish for these walls, concrete subcontractor Morley Construction selected VARIO formwork from PERI. VARIO’s GT 24 girders and SRU steel walers can be congured as required to achieve and pour pressure necessary for exposed...

24,000 ft² of Self-Climbing Formwork for Landmark New York Tower World Trade Center Tower 3, New York, NY ACS G units on the interior of the core. The unit on the left is designed to lift a placing boom. The self-climbing core wall formwork was designed to allow for vertical construction joints as it was impractical to place the concrete in such a large core in a single pour. On September 11, 2001, the U.S. came under attack when four commercial airliners were hijacked and used to strike high prole targets including the twin World Trade Center Towers in New York. Rising 1,255 ft, World...

High Productivity with TRIO and BEAMDECK for Medical Exhibition and Conference Center Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center, Cleveland, OH Contractor Donleys, Inc., Cleveland, OH Field Service PERI Indianapolis, IN TRIO wall formwork for the 37 ft tall shear walls. Gregg Przepiora, General Superintendent: “The ability to use MULTIPROPs with BEAMDECK made it very easy to achieve the high shoring requirements. TRIO’s minimal pieces and parts combined with its large panels simplied the projects 37 ft tall walls.” VARIO wall formwork for architectural wall with TRIO opposite. BEAMDECK grid...

VARIO and TRIO wall formwork on CB 240 and SKSF 240 climbing scaffolds are used to form the walls of the 100 ft tall powerhouse. Large and Complex Project Requires Very Competent Formwork Partner PPL Holtwood Hydroelectric Plant, Holtwood, PA In 2009 PPL Holtwood, LLC began construction on a $434 million expansion to the 100-year-old Holtwood Hydroelectric Station on the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, PA to increase the generating capacity by 125 megawatts and to improve migratory sh passage. After carefully reviewing proposals from numerous vendors, Walsh Construction selected PERI...

Combination of Two Slab Formwork Systems for Maximum Productivity Flats East Bank, Cleveland, OH Contractor Donleys, Inc., Cleveland, OH Field Service PERI Indianapolis, IN Gregg Przepiora, General Superintendent: “The very efcient beam bottom system is adaptable to a wide variety of heights with only using one postshore and no need for scaffolding. Having the tables arrive at the jobsite completely assembled was a huge labor savings because there was no build-up or tear-down onsite.” Located where the Cuyahoga River meets Lake Erie, the Flats East Bank development will provide panoramic...

Complex and Challenging Project Requires Wide Range of PERI Systems San Diego Library, San Diego, CA San Diego’s New Central Library is destined to become an architectural landmark for the city. Its design includes exible spaces and public amenities to take advantage of San Diego’s natural beauty and temperate climate. Morley Construction selected PERI to provide a diverse range of formwork systems for the 500,000 ft² cast-in-place concrete structure that consists of two levels of underground parking and nine oors above ground. The above grade oors are wafe slabs which were formed with 15...