Project Description

The Grove project is located within the Cultural District of Saadiyat near the Louvre, Guggenheim, and Sheikh Zayed National Museum. The location is considered exotic, surrounded by three major art museums, and therefore it is intended to set a new precedent in the region as being the link (hub) between the three museums.
The project is divided into four phases depending on the intended construction completion date, Robert Bird Group was appointed by ALDAR to do a Structural Peer Review and Value Engineering for phase 1. Thereafter, a significant Architecture design changes has occurred, and ATKINS (lead consultant) appointed Robert Bird Group as a project structure consultant to redesign phase 1 starting from Schematic till full Detail Design.
The Grove Phase 1 project consists of five mid-rise buildings of eight floors each, Cinema building, and a central Grove Square building, over a joint two levels podium and two parking basements. The Grove Phase 1 is connected to the neighbour areas through five underground tunnels.

Project Challenges

The Detail Design submission was done in a very challenging and limited time considering continues Architecture design changes and coordination with all other disciplines/ stakeholders.

How RBG Added Value

• Finalizing the design in a very challenging time considering parametric design and coded inhouse tools to reduce design time due to continues Architecture design changes.
• Attending meetings with the related authority to facilitate the needed approvals process.
• Continues coordination process through BIM, performing full clash detection.
• Attending meetings with the Client and Contractors during the tender process and clarifying all tender queries related to the structure.
• Continues coordination meetings with ALDAR, Architecture, Landscape, Mechanical, Masterplan, Civil, Façade engineer, Geotechnical, and others.
• Proposing several Value Engineering ideas such as soil strengthening to reduce the tunnels reinforcement tonnages, optimizing the buildings lateral performance through several sensitive lateral stability studies, reducing all floor reinforcement tonnages considering the optimum slab systems and the corresponding reinforcement mesh distribution, considering deep truss action instead of shallow ones for the steel bridges, identifying the optimum grid shell connectivity to reduce the lateral impact on the buildings below and the grid shell system, …