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Precast Case Study

This case study describes the construction of low-rise villas in Greater Noida using precast concrete. The foundation is cast-in-situ concrete, while the superstructure uses large precast concrete panels. Hollow core floor slabs are used, providing material and weight savings through longitudinal voids. All loadbearing members are tied into the structure through reinforcement protruding from precast walls into a reinforced concrete topping. The developer established a centralized precast plant near the project site to facilitate fabrication, curing, and transportation of precast elements like walls, slabs, stairs, and balconies to the construction site around 40km away.

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Precast Case Study

This case study describes the construction of low-rise villas in Greater Noida using precast concrete. The foundation is cast-in-situ concrete, while the superstructure uses large precast concrete panels. Hollow core floor slabs are used, providing material and weight savings through longitudinal voids. All loadbearing members are tied into the structure through reinforcement protruding from precast walls into a reinforced concrete topping. The developer established a centralized precast plant near the project site to facilitate fabrication, curing, and transportation of precast elements like walls, slabs, stairs, and balconies to the construction site around 40km away.

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CASE STUDY REPORT- PRECAST

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

MOHAMMAD TAUWAB DANISH


B. ARCH. 4TH YEAR SFS
Low-rise villas, Supertech Upcountry,
Greater Noida

Building system
The foundation footings are made as cast in-situ concrete and the remaining
structure as precast concrete with large precast panels (pictures 32 and 33). The
structural system of these villas is similar as described in the first project except
for the floor system which is very much different. In this project, hollow core
floor slabs are used which are prestressed floor slabs with longitudinal voids.
The presence of the voids results in material savings and weight savings. With
hollow core slabs, large spans can be achieved, and no temporary propping is
required. Hollow core slabs only have longitudinal prestressing reinforcement
and no other reinforcement. Diaphragm action is achieved through special joint
design in combination with the application of a reinforced concrete topping to
join the slabs and achieve proper diaphragm action. All the loadbearing
members such as precast walls have been tied horizontally into the structure by
providing uniform reinforcement protruding from top of precast walls and bend
down inside the RCC cast in-situ topping and inside pockets created at the end
of the hollow core slabs . Furthermore, peripheral and internal tie reinforcement
has been placed as extra reinforcement inside the RCC cast in-situ topping.Other
building components like the staircase, balconies and parapet walls have all
been made as precast concrete and have been integrated in the building design.
Supertech Precast plant – fabrication, storage,
and transportation
The developer decided to establish a centralized precast plant located nearby
their upcoming projects in Noida and Greater Noida. The distance from the plant
to this particular project site is around 40km. The precast plant has two main
buildings in which the precast production takes place. Building A is having long
line beds for the production of hollow core slabs. These slabs are made by
spanning prestressed strands over the production beds and casting the concrete
with a slipformer machine. The production beds have inbuilt heating pipes
through which hot water can be pumped which will accelerate the curing
process. After proper curing, the concrete must have achieved the required
strength to cut the slabs with a diamond saw blade machine. The concrete
batching plant is located next to the plant and a flying bucket system supplies
the concrete to the slipformer. Building B is equipped with an automated central
shifter system for the horizontal production of precast wall panels. These
precast elements are manufactured on steel production pallets (moulds) of size
4m x 12.5m which are mounted on rollers. The plant has three bays where the
central shifter machine operates in the middle bay and serves as a central
transport unit for the production pallets and can move them to the individual
work stations which are located in the adjacent bays. At each work station,
standard activities can takes place like cleaning of the pallets, fixing of
shuttering, placing reinforcement cages, fixing inserts and provisions, pouring
concrete, finishing of concrete, curing, demoulding and tilting. EOT cranes are
operating in the first bay and third bay of the plant where they can access all the
individual work stations. The batching plant is located right next to the plant and
has a concrete distributor which is mounted on an overhead rail system through
which it can move in and out of the plant and get fresh concrete from the
batching plant.

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