The tall buildings of Frankfurt face special challenges due to the city's deformation-sensitive ground. This means that good foundations play a particularly important role for skyscrapers there. Let's take a look at the evolution of the various foundation types.All high-rise buildings built in Frankfurt until 1980 have slab foundations. A slab foundation is nothing more
Rick Rieck is a student of building engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and a member of the editorial team at SKYLINE ATLAS. He reports on his website and on his German-speaking YouTube channel on a wide variety of topics relating to the construction and construction industry. Every now and then, Rick Rieck also
If you consider that Frankfurt is the only city in Germany boasting a skyscraper skyline, you might expect the ground under this European metropolis to be ideal for high buildings. But that is not the case; the ground there is predominantly clay.Clay has many disadvantages for high-rise construction. Described in technical jargon as "cohesive soils",
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