E-Force Technology LLC, UAE.

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The Sheikh Zayed Mosque, a Ministry of Public Works project in Fujairah, will be the second largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates, when completed in July 2012. Even its final size is yet to be determined The Sheikh Zayed Mosque of Fujairah will have an approximate capacity for 28,000 worshippers and will consist of a main prayer hall and an external open courtyard for prayer.. The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, which encompasses 22,412 square meters, is the largest in United Arab Emirates.The name ‘Sheikh Zayed Mosque’ has given to it to commemorate the life and legacy of the ‘father of the nation - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan’. The Mosque is being constructed by the United Engineering Construction which is based in Dubai with offices in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.Since 1993 UNEC has acquired a vast and varied portfolio of large projects including residential towers, residential developments, educational and commercial buildings, hotels, hospitals and libraries. Over these two decades the UENC has constructed more than six mosques, including the Grand Mosque in Sharjah. The architects are a Malaysian firm, Arkitek ICB aided by Mabani Consultants.The cost of the new mosque is AED 190,500,000.00 or US$ 52.1 million.
Project Type: Heritage & Culture - Mosque
Progress : Under Construction
PT Works : Completed
Maximum Span : 16 mts
Project Manager : Engr.Raed Barqawi.
Project Manager(PT) : Engr. Ahmed Yakout
Estimated Value : 52.1 million USD
Shaikh Zayed Mosque is the 17th project of E Force in UAE.As we mentioned in our last article about the Safeer mall and Hypermarket project in Fujairah, the steel price during that construction period was very high. But when we come to now, the entire picture has changed and steel price has gone down to almost 1/3 of what it was before. But for this project, Sheikh Zayed mosque they have considered post tensioning from the beginning because of the structural specialties of this project. As we mentioned above it is the second largest mosque in UAE, which can accommodate almost 28,000 people at a time.
Long spans and large domes made the designers to think about post tensioning even the steel price is not high. It's our pride to say that Force was involved in the preliminary design stage of this project and the original Post tensioning design of this project was done by us only. Ground level slab consists a combination of hollow core and post tensioning design, and for the other levels they completely adopted post tensioning which emphasis the importance of post tensioning in larger construction once again. Total Post tensioning Quantity of this project is about 150 ton, once it completed . Post tensioning beams are the strength of horizontal elements in this project most of the domes are placed on the PT beams. E Force managed to develop a safe and economic PT design for this project , Even though the steel price is low, Post tension design helped to reduce the total construction cost and will be accounted on the saving side .The project work progress is very fast and expected to finish on time. Multi-strand corrugated flat duct bonded system with anchorage set SF305, SF405 and SF505 are used for the project.

29/12/2012

Singapore, officially named as the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. Singapore is a microstate and the smallest nation in Southeast Asia and become one of the most important commercial and the hub of British power in Southeast Asia.
After the very successful beginning in Singapore as a post tensioning specialist, E-Force Engineering, Singapore has started its own operation in UAE in early 2007 with the projects belonging to Fujseng Construction who is a joint venture Singapore based Koonseng Construction with Overseas trading company, UAE. At the same time, E-Force established a technical center in Vietnam in order to support its projects in Singapore and UAE. The very strong and brotherly relation with PBL Group helped in the formation of E-Force and to kick off operations in UAE in the early stages. In collaboration with Emirates Post Tension L.L.C. (EPT), an affiliated company of PBL Group in UAE, E-Force has completed a number of projects in UAE so far.
The United Arab Emirate (UAE) is a federation of seven emirates situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia at the Persian Gulf. It is also the country’s center of political, industrial and cultural activities. Fujairah is one of the rapidly growing emirates in UAE. It is the fifth largest emirate and totally mountainous. Beautiful beaches and other geographical features always attract tourists to this emirate.
Fujseng has started the construction of Safeer Shopping Mall Complex in early 2007 and completed on 15 April 2009. Safeer Mall located in Fujairah, UAE, sporting a contemporary mall design with a captivating beachfront, will become the biggest mall in the emirate. A 100,000 sq.ft hypermarket, along with five anchor stores a multitude of sought after brands, 100 openfronted shops, 13 food and beverage outlets, the 22,000 sq.ft. Space Cityand a Cineplex are the main features of the mall. A covered p a r k i n g a r e a (200,000 sq.ft.) for 500 vehicles and open space for another 200 is also part of the plan.
When the project started, steel price was consistently going up and it was about to reach 1,600 USD. Post tensioning cause this project to save a huge amount when compared to the conventional RC design.
Post Tensioning Feature The post tensioning slab thickness was 250 mm with typical span length of 10.00 m x 8.4 m width. The construction joint and pour strip had been provided to facilitated post tensioning construction. The total area of all the project was 63,000 sq.m. PBL multi-strand corrugated flat duct bonded system with anchorage set SF305, SF405 and SF505 were used for the project. Project Team Work The construction of Safeer shopping mall complex was successfully completed under supervision and monitoring by the professional team work as follows. Safeer Mall was owned by Al Safeer Group of Companies LLC, UAE. The post tensioning design was done by EForce Engineering PTE Ltd., Singapore and the construction was carried out by Fujseng Construction LLC, by arranging Mr. Chong Wai Swee, Project Manager of the project, Mr. Ahmed Yakout, Project Manager, took care of post tensioning work and Mr. Mahmoud Hekal, Project Engineer, was responsible for post tensioning work under supervision of the Management International Consultancy, the consultant of the project.

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29/12/2012