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The shoring towers will carry the roof load during airport construction.

At Denver International Airport, building has begun on two temporary shoring towers that will support the airport's iconic fabric tent roof during construction at the south end of the terminal. The current roof anchors are obstructing excavation for the $500-million South Terminal Redevelopment Program (STRP), which includes a 500-room Westin hotel, a public plaza and a new transit station.

6月12日,该项目的承包商Mortenson Hunt Saunders Triventure的船员开始为钢铁支撑塔钻孔,该钢铁支撑塔将在地面以下30英尺和70英尺的地面上延伸30英尺,并在近四年的STRP工作中取代了八个屋顶锚。这些塔将需要大约五个星期的时间才能完成,它将假设锚固式的垂直和水平屋顶载荷,以便可以去除锚。

"The tricky part will be when we use the jacking system to transfer the load to the towers," says Steve Culbertson, senior project manager for Triventure. Transferring the entire 215,000-lb load from the mast will take about two weeks, he says, because each step has to be verified by the engineers.

豪尔赫·埃斯特维斯(Jorge Estevez)在帕森斯项目设计管理团队工作的豪尔赫·埃斯特维斯(Jorge Estevez)说:“这一切都没有猜测。”“艺术是在分析织物屋顶的复杂几何形状,并预料到载荷被转移时的表现。”

该项目的承包商Mortenson Hunt Saunders Triventure的工作人员于6月12日开始钻探Caissons。