Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Kingdom Tower Construction Pictures

Test pile being placed to the lifting platform
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We came across those rare pictures of construction site in Jeddah where world's tallest skyscraper, Kingdom Tower, is about to rise. Ground preparations are ongoing for months now and we are still waiting for some detailed info and pictures from the site. For now we managed to find those construction pictures of Kingdom Tower pile testing.


All those pictures were taken on January 28th, and at the moment those are the newest pictures online. The photos are showing the implementation of the load test (O-Cell® Test Pile -78.0 m depth) for Kingdom Tower’s foundation. As we heard recently, those test piles failed and they had to redesign some stuff around the tower's base. That's why tower moved on the drawing board again so that can be fixed.

Now we are waiting top hear what happened and what is going to happen.
Stay tuned!

Test pile close up
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Workers and the crane pouring concrete into test pile
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Test pile close up and ready to be placed
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Test pile being lowered into place by the crane and a lot of workers
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Test pile being checked by the worker on the lifting platform
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Crane and concrete pump pumping the concrete into test pile
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Workers and machines around test pile
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Test pile being placed on the lifting platform
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Workers on the site on sunset
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Test pile being lowered into the hole
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Workers checking test pile
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Workers pouring concrete into test pile
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Test pile being lifted with the platform
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Test pile being lifted with the platform
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Worker on the concrete can
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Test pile hanging in the air
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Inside the test pile's hole
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Workers connecting test pile to the crane
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Workers working on lowering the test pile
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Water pouring out of the test pile's hole as the concrete is being poured in
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Crane hook on the test pile
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