2020-09-03
Construction work, as at 3 September 2020
The museum construction is making great strides and the ambitious cultural project in our city is still right on schedule. After the basement has been completed, the rooms on the ground floor are now being built. The bistro, kitchen or event hall may not be recognisable yet as the finishing work has yet to be completed but the walls are already standing. The crane driver has formwork components hovering from a dizzying height above the site and lowers them to the intended spot. This is where the steel reinforcement is already waiting, which looks like a huge climbing frame. Forests of columns – for which the technical term is strutting – support the ceiling elements, so that stability for the concrete slab is guaranteed and the builders can then tackle the next floor. The pink insulation is quite visible, as it is currently applied to the outer skin. The supply and elevator shafts can also be identified.
In a few days, an approximately 60-tonne drilling rig on the southern side of the property will drill out the cut pile wall over a length of about nine metres so that the groundwater can follow its natural course again. A second hydraulic window will follow on the opposite side at a later date.
Click on the picture gallery to see the latest impressions of the construction site.
