STRUCTURES OF THE HIGH-RISE BUILDING “LAKHTA CENTER” IN SAINT-PETERSBURG

Abstract

The “Lakhta Center” skyscraper that built up in Saint-Petersburg on the coast of Baltic sea at the end of 2018 is the highest building of Europe. The tower has 87 floors above the ground and 2 underground floors. The distinctive paper is devoted to structures of this skyscraper. Particularly piled foundation, building structures of the underground part (substructure), building structures of the aboveground part (building superstructure), de­signs of steel-reinforced concrete columns, design of slabs, structural analysis, some loads and impacts, aerody­namic tests, engineering-geological research, testing of steel-reinforced concrete columns, glass racks and struc­tural health monitoring are under consideration.

Keywords

• high-rise building “Lakhta Center”, building structures, steel-reinforced concrete columns, loads and impacts, structural analysis, structural-health monitoring