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Dillinger heavy plate for the
Shanghai World Financial Center

On 30. August 2008, the city of Shanghai was provided with another striking symbol by the inauguration of the World Financial Center in Pudong business district.

With a height of 492 m and 101 floors, the building became, at that time, China’s tallest building and the third highest in the world. This distinctive feature takes the form of an trapezoidal aperture through the top of the building. Here, at the dizzy height of 472 m, on the 100th floor, is the world’s highest viewing platform. The building features a concrete core, with four mega columns at the corners, linked to one another by truss belts and by bracing elements. Dillinger Hütte supplied for this structure around 23,000 t of heavy plate ASTM A 572 Grade 50 and DI-MC 460 in thicknesses up to 100 mm. Steels with special deformation properties in the thickness direction (Specification Z25) were also used in specific cases, in order to assure the necessary high flexibility of the structure.

Data

Building owner
Shanghai World Financial Center Co., Ltd.
Installation
30. August 2008
Country
China
Quality
ASTM A572 Grade 50, DI-MC 460
Height
492 m
Tonnage
23,000 t
Project architect and engineer
Mori Building Co., Ltd.
Design architect
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates P.C. (KPF)
Structural engineering
Leslie E. Robertson Associates R.L.L.P. (LERA)

Contact persons

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Natalie Federmeyer
Sales Director

Phone: +49 6831 473449
Fax: +49 6831 47992685
E-Mail

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Dr. Tobias Lehnert
Marketing Dillinger Saarstahl, Head of Department Wind Power & Construction

Phone: +49 6831 472394
Fax: +49 6831 473089
E-Mail

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Timm Condé
Senior Sales Manager, Steel Construction

Phone: +49 6831 472196
Fax: +49 6831 47992681
E-Mail