Structural design of a Alahd Hotel building

Abstract

The proposed project included the study and structural design of an Alahd hotel, and the safe structural design of a hotel consists of eight stories, two below ground and five above ground, with reception, parking, rooms, a sports club, and service floors. Based on the large area of the project, we faced many construction challenges, the most important of which was the distribution of the structural system of columns, beams, slabs, walls, and foundations, and determining the locations of the expansion joints, as this project contains many activities, which caused a challenge in distributing the columns and determining their locations, which affected the distribution and design of the slabs and beams. There were large distances between the columns, which affected the column loads, and caused the presence of bases of several types and large dimensions. The results of this work resulted in a structural design that meets the standards. ACI 318 Structural Design Code