No_9_September_1968 — Page 31

Fig. 1.

Cross section

al design

Hotel Malaysia

by

Donald K. Gudgeon*

STEFL PIPE COL.

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0.125 GUELP

NUDE MASTE

GRAND POes

A C. PILE CAP

OTEL

На Malaysia is structurally quite interesting, being mainly load bearing 41⁄2 in. reinforced con- crete walls above first floor with a heavy supporting reinforced concrete structure at and below first floor (Fig. 3) through the ground floor and basement to the supporting piles. The main reinforcement throughout is high tensile deformed bars or BRC welded wire mesh.

The hotel comprises two blocks joined at a common lift lobby and at an angle to one another. One block is long and curved at the front; the other is short and straight.

Piling

At the time the foundations were being designed the only available economical piles were of the Gamco type with a safe load of 55 tons, and on tender the contract was awarded for this type of pile. Due to the high column loads (of the order of 1000 to 1800 tons) this "small" pile was not quite suitable but was the best avail- able at that time.

Basement

The basement beams are long 37ft. span beams taking downward loading from machinery or upward loading from water pressure when flooding occurs. The net upward and down- ward loadings were 400 lb./sq. ft. The flood level given was 2ft. below the grade level.

Basement walls form part of the structure not only to support the basement floor but also to stiffen the substructure against unequal settle- ment. Elaborate tanking of the

*

Mr. Donald K. Gudgeon, Dip_CE, CEng, MIEAust, MIStructE, FASCE, AMIEM, is a partner of Gudgeon McWilliams & Partners, consulting engineers for the project.

Far East BUILDER, September 1968.

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