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January 2007
REQUIREMENTS FOR STRUCTURAL
ENGINEERING SUBMISSIONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. PILING ................................................................................................................................ 1
1.1 Geotechnical Report .................................................................................................. 1
1.2 Information to be Shown on Drawings ....................................................................... 2
1.2.1 Shoring........................................................................................................... 2
1.2.2 Piling .............................................................................................................. 2
1.3 Calculations................................................................................................................ 2
1.3.1 Application Codes .......................................................................................... 3
2. SUPERSTRUCTURE.......................................................................................................... 4
2.1 General Requirements ............................................................................................... 4
2.2 Design Checklist ........................................................................................................ 4
2.3 Additional Foundation Requirements ......................................................................... 6
2.4 Additional Vertical Element Requirements................................................................. 7
2.5 Additional Horizontal Element Requirements............................................................. 8
2.6 Modelling of Superstructure and Specialist Design Considerations........................... 9
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1. PILING
Geotechnical investigation reports are to contain, but not be limited to, the following
information as applicable:
Subsequent to completion of soil investigation works and all necessary laboratory testing,
the consultant must submit documents certifying that:
• All soil investigation works and laboratory works have been witnessed by a qualified
representative of the consultant
• All works have been carried out in accordance with the nominated Code of Practice
for site investigations.
• Proper equipment and tools, duly calibrated, have been used by qualified and
experienced personnel during all soil investigation and testing works, and that the
test results have been reviewed and approved by the consultant.
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• Drawings containing excavation plan and sections showing and dewatering details
by specialist contractor.
• Detailed calculations.
1.2.2 Piling
• Piling plan showing pile length, reinforcement, legend for pile capacity, pile testing
cut-off levels etc.
• Pile caps layout including column and shear wall location with dimensions
• Pile caps sections showing raft thickness and bottom level at raft in relation to
Datum
1.3 Calculations
• Design philosophy, complete design criteria and assumptions
• Stability analysis for wind and seismic loads including drift and check for human
comfort criteria is to be enclosed
• Loads on columns, shear walls including wind and seismic moments are to be
marked in the drawing of pile copy layout for critical load cases
• A soft copy of the structural model including all the structural elements shall be
submitted on CD, together with the above mentioned calculations
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• BS 6399:1996 Part-1
• Adopted dead and live loads shall satisfy the recommendations of Abu Dhabi
Municipality
Seismic Loads
• Zone 2A
Wind Load
• Reliable wind tunnel study reflecting climatic site conditions where it look provision
is not applicable
Serviceability Limits
• All buildings shall be designed to limit maximum drift under 50 year wind load to
1/500 of building height
• All buildings shall be designed to limit inter story drift to 1/500 of the height and no
more than 10 year under serviceability 10 year wind 38m/sec
• Wind induced vibration due to 10 year wind shall be limited to 15mg for residential
and hotel building and 20mg for office towers
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2. SUPERSTRUCTURE
Design of the superstructure and foundations shall be based on the requirements of the
latest and relevant British, American or Australian Standards and the Uniform Building
Code for earthquake loads for Zone 2A.
Structural design of all projects submitted to the Municipality for approval, shall ensure
that the work is carried out by licensed and qualified consultants, with structural
engineers having the necessary qualifications and experience.
Consultants shall ensure that structures are economically designed (as appropriate), and
must ensure that designs and details are buildable.
All Stage Two drawings shall be accompanied by a letter of guarantee from the certifying
consultant and shall clearly identify the primary designer responsible for the design.
• Structural adequacy
• Integrity
• Insulation
Durability Requirements
• Corrosion resistance
• Chemical attack resistance
• Crack control
• Waterproofing
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Loading Requirements
• Dead loads
• Live load (including any pattern load and heavy load/compactus requirements)
• Wind load
• Earthquake loads
• Earth pressures
• Water pressures
• Buoyancy loads
• Ground movements and differential foundation settlements.
• Dynamic effects/vibration resonance loads
• Thermal loads
• Creep
• Moisture variation (shrinkage and swelling)
• Expansion loads
• Axial shortening of columns
• Pre-stress (hyperstatic reactions)
• Impact and breaking loads
• Fatigue
• Construction loads
Serviceability requirements
Stability Requirements
Strength Requirements
Detailing Requirements
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The submitted drawings shall clearly indicate the distance to the outer face of any
permanent or temporary training system. (i.e. diaphragm walls, secant pile walls,
contiguous pile walls etc.) from the inner face of the basement walls.
Ground anchors supporting retaining systems for excavations, shall not extend into
adjacent plots or into areas of highly concentrated utilities and service lines in all
circumstances, clearances shall be obtained from the relevant service departments.
Pile foundations together with shallow foundations shall not be permitted to support the
same superstructure, unless isolated.
Foundations calculations shall (if required by the Municipality) address the design issues of
stability, durability. Serviceability and ultimate general requirements are:
Stability
Durability
• Corrosion resistance
• Chemical attack resistance
• Crack control if required
Serviceability
Ultimate
• Punching shear
• Beam shear
• Flexural strength
• Torsional strength
• Anchor strength
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Calculations must show if columns are short or slender, according to the code provision.
All column design must be accompanied by moment interaction diagrams taking into
account slenderness effects.
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Slabs modelled using the finite element method must clearly indicate all assumptions
considered to predict deflections, and must ensure that full moment connections are not
modelled where they can develop into pinned connections.
Transfer slabs must be limit deflections to span/1000 to ensure that elements and partitions
on above floors do not crack.
Include:
• All plans and sections relevant to the project for all structural elements
• Class and, where appropriate, grade designation of concrete
• Exposure classification
• Reference number and date of issue of applicable design standard
• Fire rating (if not specified on architectural drawings)
• Loading (superimposed dead load and live load to all slab plans and wind and
earthquake loads)
• Grade and type of reinforcement and tendons
• General notes
• Concrete cover to reinforcement
• The finish and method of control for unformed surfaces
• Class of formwork for the surface finish
• Curing procedure and duration
• The force required in each tendon, the maximum jacking force to be applied and
the order in which the tendons are to be stressed
• The location and details of planned construction or movement joints connections
and splices, and the method to be used for their protection
• The minimum period of time before stripping of forms and removal of shores
• Any constraints on construction assumed in the design
• Any special protective coatings
• Characteristic compressive strength at 28 days
• Characteristic flexural strength if required
• Characteristic indirect tensile strength if required
• Mean 7 days strength
• Other early age strength
• Slump of concrete.
• Cement type
• Maximum aggregate size
• Water/cement ratio
• Maximum 56 day shrinkage
• Density if required.
• Maximum water soluble acid (chloride ion) if required
• Maximum sulphate content (SO3) if required
• Temperature range at point of discharge if required
• Testing requirements if required
• Project assessment of concrete production if required
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The following criteria applies (and should be corrected pending a wind tunnel test):
• Maximum root means square (rms) acceleration for a 5 year return period less
than 5 milli-g’s, or
• Maximum peak acceleration for a 5 year return period as specified in the table
below.
Towers which have a natural frequency of less than 1Hz or height more than or equal to
twice the least plan dimension or are irregular vertically such as weak stories, transfer
slabs, transfer girders etc should carry out the following:.
• Require dynamic analysis using response spectrum method for seismic load
• Columns should be designed and studied due to shortening and creep where
required
• Wind tunnel test required when the code provision is not applicable
• An electronic copy of the structural 3D-Model including all structural elements, must
be submitted together with the abovementioned calculations, clearly stating all
methodology
• All joints shall be seismically detailed (as required)
• Framed building must ensure that plastic hinges develop in the beams and not the
columns to prevent entire collapse in an overload condition. It is therefore required
that the column is stiffer than the adjoining beam.
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