SAFETY, GRONINGEN, RESIDENCES, EARTHQUAKES

Just North of the city centre of Groningen, along the Oosterhamrikkade, this apartment building has been realised. Regarding the earthquakes (PGA = 0,11g) research has been done into the consequences for the main load-bearing structures of this building. The forces are of such size that a solution with base isolation was deemed the most economical. This solution has been completely integrated into the design up to the level of implementation. We chose to implement base isolation between the foundation beams and ground floor. The main load-bearing structure and the tectonic design has been analysed and calculated via an NLTH-analysis in the program Abaqus.