Client: | National Savings Bank |
Location: | Colombo |
Completed: | 2007-2010 |
Services: | Design & Supervision |
Description:
This is a building designed for maximum utilization of area. It consists of two basements mainly catering for parking. The building consists of a spacious entrance lobby, double height auditorium and seventeen floors to be used as office space. It also includes a separate roof terrace. Total floor area of the building is 18,500m2(approximately). The building consists of RC framed structure with some lift walls designed as shear walls. Flat slabs are used for basements in order to reduce the excavation depth. Secant pile retaining wall is used as the shoring system since the proposed building is surrounded by number of medium rise buildings. The building is supported on 131 number of bored cast in-situ piles ranging diameters from 600mm-1200mm.