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Projekt

V & A Museum of Design, Dundee, United Kingdom

After months of planning and construction, Kuma’s vision is now a tangible work of art that is set to open its doors to the public.
The complex geometry of the panel face required the highest quality work from PERI fabrication teams in the UK and Germany. The panels consist of two layers of 4 mm plywood, 21 mm thick lathing timbers, Cleatbox interlocking chipboard rib grillage and VARIO base panel – SRU walers, GT 24 girder and 21 mm thick chipboard panel face.
Fabrication in action at Rugby.
The true shape of the V&A Museum is revealed after the construction phase is complete and formwork panels are removed.
The external formwork and shoring had to remain in place until the roof was installed.
All window openings required a bespoke design and fabricated boxout panel.
The transition from flat, triangular planes of walls 15 and 16 to the wrapped curves of wall 14 proved to be one of the most difficult challenges overcome by the PERI team.
The removal of the cofferdam will restore the water back to its former position, which will see part of the V&A merge into the river Tay as imagined by the architect.
Formwork facing the river Tay.
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Projektinformation

Plats: Dundee, Storbritannien

  • Positioned at the centre of Dundee’s £1bn waterfront regeneration, the V&A Museum of Design will showcase the best of Scotland’s design heritage.
  • This £80.11 million masterpiece, the first UK work penned by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, combines complex concrete architecture with glass facades and linear concrete cladding.

Krav

  • The structure’s elaborate curves and unique angular walls required a bespoke formwork solution.
  • A sequenced delivery with Careys was required to ensure formwork was only on site when needed.

Kunder

Carey’s Civil Engineering

Kundfördelar

  • Two PERI project managers manage the fabrication and technical requirements.
  • Extensive planning optimises site space.
  • Optimal sequencing allows to maintain a typical delivery of five bespoke carcasses every working day for 60 weeks
Portrait of Ed Morgan, Project Engineer at Carey’s Civil Engineering
Ed Morgan
Project Engineer

Sequencing between Carey’s and PERI was critical in order to maintain a typical delivery of five bespoke carcasses every working day for 60 weeks.

PERI lösning

  • Two project managers were assigned to manage the fabrication and technical requirements.
  • To accommodate for the geometry of the structure, VARIO panels and VARIOKIT rafters provided a standard 2500 mm wide unit with variable depth and height, tailor-made to render the structure’s elaborate twists and turns.
  • VARIO provided the flexibility to create 1277 bespoke shutters, each one crafted with skill and patience to meet the exact requirements of the design.
  • To minimise costs and erection time where possible, TRIO formwork was also employed to construct linear walls.
  • Shoring support could only be removed once the roof was installed, thus the support had to be suitable for the elevation and inclination of the wall, as well as being able to withstand the concrete once it had cured. Over 5,000 SLS spindles were used in addition to MULTIPROP to sustain the weight of the walls.
  • PERI UP shoring was also used, and was the ideal scaffold support for the wall formwork. Strong, lightweight and flexible, it provided site workers with a safe and stable platform from which formwork could be installed and accessed. The shoring system offered an incremental height adjustability of 250 mm, which facilitated the variation of concrete pours spanning the building.
  • Working in collaboration with Careys, deliveries were planned in advance so formwork was only on site when needed. Optimising site space in this way meant the amount of equipment on site was kept to a minimum, which was a major benefit when considering the vast amount of resources already present on the ground.

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