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News Release from: UBS | Subject: UBS Case Study: Broadgate Tower, London
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Team on 13 September 2007
UBS Case Study: Broadgate Tower, London
On the Broadgate Tower the hoisting consisted of three high speed passenger/material hoists arranged around a common tower and a specialist large high speed material hoist.
Broadgate Tower is built on a raft weighing 6,000 tonnes over the rail tracks that run above it to Liverpool Street Station This means there is a requirement to distribute the weight of the tower, and hence no concrete core
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 8 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The scheme comprises two buildings: the 13-storey 201 Bishopsgate and the 35-storey Broadgate Tower, which at 161 metres tall is the City's third tallest building.
The 35-storey (161 metre) Broadgate Tower is shaped like a parallelogram stretching north-south along the site.
There is a five storey entrance lobby on the south end with ten double deck lifts (the first to be used in a new-build project in the UK), and onward access to 201 Bishopsgate at the north end.
On the Broadgate Tower the hoisting consisted of three 2800kg, 90 mtr/min high speed passenger / material hoists arranged around a common tower and a specialist large high speed material hoist with an operating payload of 2000kg and a speed of 139mtrs / min.
The 13-storey 201 Bishopsgate building comprises of three standard speed, passenger / material hoists, 1.5mtr wide x 3.7mtr long, 2000kg payload.
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