SOLID Home, Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main, Germany / 09.2017 - 05.2018
The SOLID Home residential complex comprises around 200 apartments in Frankfurt’s Europa district. The 66m-high tower contains 21 floors. This construction scheme was executed as a joint venture between Bauwerk Capital GmbH & Co. KG and Red Square GmbH. Our Region West worked in consortium to create the construction pit for the high-rise.
The SOLID Home residential tower was erected on the last planned development site in the Europa district. The site is located right next to a 60,000m2 parking facility, the Europagarten, and the surrounding area also contains small shops, public transport connections, restaurants, schools and doctors’ surgeries.
Our fifth construction pit contract in the Europa district
Stump-Franki worked in consortium with Ecosoil Süd GmbH under direct contract from the client to manufacture this construction pit. It is the fifth construction pit in the Europa district for our specialist civil engineering team, following on from our completion of construction pits for Maison-Claire, Le Quartier Parigot and the Praedium and the new contract for Tower ONE in Frankfurt. Our team’s experts were already very familiar with the area and the site soil conditions – and this element of security was valued by the employer.
Secure sealing with diaphragm walls
The construction site soil comprised filling material,
Facts & Figures
Company
Stump-Franki Spezialtiefbau GmbH
Type
Turnkey construction pits, Foundations
Runtime
09.2017 - 05.2018
Construction pit for a 66m-high residential tower
quaternary gravel sand, Pliocene sand and clay soils and tertiary clays. The planned construction pit featured a depth of approx. 12m and was designed to contain four underground floors. Our team executed the shoring walls as double-anchored cast in situ concrete diaphragm walls to a depth of 23m, embedded into the sealing layers of Pliocene clay.
A solid foundation of bored piles
The 66m-tall tower is supported by over 20m-long large-scale bored piles as elements of a combined plate-pile foundation structure. The large-scale bored piles were manufactured using an empty bore to approx. 12m in a slurry-supported process.
A focus on economic viability
During close discussion and consultation throughout the offering phase, the client was impressed by the expertise of our specialist civil engineering team, which enabled considerable savings in time and money. This included factors such as the prior negotiation of necessary agreements with the authorities and timely explorations of the construction site, both of which measures prevented loss of time during later execution. Planning services were provided by Stump-Franki Planung, and the plans ensured that the diaphragm wall, anchoring and bored pile foundation constructions were all economically optimised.
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