Grade A Office Space in Mexico City: Tight Sites and Shaky Ground

Grade A Office Space in Mexico City: Tight Sites and Shaky Ground

Tom Wilcock, Associate, Arup

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Dealing with constraints


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Tight Sites


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Tight Sites


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Tight Sites


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Images Teodoro Gonzalez DeLeon Arquitectos / Arup


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Icebergs

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Shaky ground

Mexico City Pacific

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Shaky ground

Mexico City

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Shaky ground


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Icebergs

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Soil Structure interaction


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Basement designs reflect significant local variation in soil


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Providing Performance


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BBVA Bancomer Seismic Fuse


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BBVA – Seismic fuse


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Reforma 509 Brace Restraint


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Reforma 509 –brace restraint


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Nonlinear FEA simulation - Validation

Fell BV (2008) Large-Scale Testing and Simulation of Earthquake-Induced Ultra Low Cycle Fatigue in Bracing Members Subjected to Cyclic Inelastic Buckling Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, USA

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Torre Reforma Double V-Brace


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Torre Reforma – Double v-brace

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Compressive Strain Levels ASCE Limits

Plasticity diagrams


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24 Pedregal Balanced V-Brace


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24 Pedregal – balanced V-brace


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24 Pedregal – balanced V-brace


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Mega Brace

25mm Drift Under Gravity 75mm Drift Under Gravity


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Making it count


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Torre Reforma - $14 Million

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24 Pedregal – 100 kg/m²

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BBVA - 33% Reduction in Seismic Forces

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Reforma 509 - 50kg/m2 Steel Savings

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Thank you

BBVA Torre Reforma Reforma 509 Pedregal Client BBVA Bancomer Fondo Hexa Banco Santander Grupo Danhos

Architect LegoRogers Benjamin Romano Taller-G Teodoro Gonzalez

Local Engineer Colinas de Buen DITEC DITEC DITEC © Council on Tall B

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Grade A Office Space in Mexico City: Tight Sites and Shaky Ground