Adorable Building Designs (Structural): August 2017

The proposed premise is located at Sri Jayawardanapura. The ground water table is not uncounted at the time of doing soil investigation process. Two storied and single storied buildings are at the boundaries.
This building is a six storied building and it is for the accommodation facility for nurses. In one sides the bed rock is founded very near to the surface (about 2 m) and in another sides it was somewhat far(about 10.5 m). So we had to consider the differential settlement and we decided to leave a construction joint across the building. For one side we went for pad and strip footings and in the other side we had to go for a raft foundation. The overburden consists of a very strong lateric formation.

The Structural building modal was developed from the Structural software ETABS of CSI company.
Structural Design work of this building is done by the Structural Engineer, Isuru S. Amarasena.

Kalutara General Hospital is next to Nagoda and is located in Western, Sri Lanka. Proposed project Site was located within the present premises of the General Hospital. Shallow type of foundations such as pad and strip footing were considered at or below depth 1.0m below the EGL for the substructure of this large building. Design Engineers, requires evaluation of sub soil conditions of the proposed Site in order to determine the parameters involved with designing a suitable foundation for proposed structure. Under the above circumstances, M/s Ground Engineering Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd. (GEC) of No. 24, Station Road, Wattala, were entrusted by the Client, with the sub soil investigations by their Work Order No. AK/2015/06 of 23rd September 2015, after accepting the GEC Quotation of 28th July 2014. The entire Structural Engineering part was done by Structural Engineer, Isuru S. Amarasena under the guidence of Specialist Engineer, Nimal Premathilake(cecb).
The Ground and 1st floor is utilizing for the Accident and Emergency Unit and the above two floors will be utilized as a ward complex. In second and third floors, there are large toilet blocks and the access to the second and third floors is provided by a lift and a staircase constructed separately with a lobby area as the phase2 of the project. The water tanks will be placed on the top of this phase 2 building which is constructed separately by a movement joint with the main building.
This large building will be opened in next 8th of January.

The Structural Modal of this building is developed by the Prokon Software.

Photos below shows the building after the construction works are almost finished.

Some of the photographs below are taken during the construction stage.

Front View During the Construction Stage

Rear View During the Construction Stage

Site visit of the Minister of health during the construction stage are shown below.

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He has graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya in 2012 and obtained his charter in 2016 as a civil engineer. He is a member of Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka and the Society of Structural Engineers, Sri Lanka. And also he is a registered Chartered Civil Engineer of the Engineering Council, Sri Lanka. He has been working in private and government sector for several building projects and presently having an experience as a structural design engineer, around 10 years. Lot of buildings, housing, and apartment building structural design work has been carried out during his career and he will help for your structural design as well. Contact him through 071-3630536 for new design projects.