In the year of 2022, GETO, the “1+N” one-stop solution provider, has worked with international clients to create a series of excellent construction projects. We selected 12 of the most representative projects, let us take you to enjoy the charm of green and smart buildings.
The project is a 26-storey high-rise project in a prime location in Hung Hom, Kowloon, a masterpiece of large-scale integrated urban redevelopment.
Considering the high cost of labor resources in Hong Kong, GETO provides formwork solutions to improve construction efficiency and save labor costs.
Project highlights:
① Use the lightweight aluminium formwork, which is easy for construction team to assemble and disassemble the formwork system.
② Adopt the lifting shaft platform system. In the construction process, the lifting shaft platform system of the elevator shaft can be lifted layer by layer by tower crane, and can be retractable and reset, which made the construction of the elevator shaft become integrally and mechanically.
The T1210 Villa project is a large-scale housing construction project built by the local Housing Welfare Department, covering a total area of 628,000 square meters.
The traditional local construction habit is to use timber formwork.This project is the first introduction of aluminium formwork technology in the local housing construction field. GETO’s high-quality products and professional services have been highly praised by customers, and GETO also promoted the development of aluminium formwork construction technology in the housing construction market in this region.
Project highlights:
① GETO provides the design and construction scheme to maximize the utilization rate of aluminium formwork, including the mutual turnover of the different formwork sets and the mutual utilization of the mirror house type’s formwork;
② In the early stage of the project, in order to cooperate with the project approval of customers, GETO provides pre-design service for customers, and improves the design scheme by referring to the local architectural design code, so as to help customers get the approval smoothly.
The project consists of 11 buildings are constituted by 2,444 prefabricated modules in 91 structural types.
Project highlights:
① Considering the characteristics of the prefabricated unit in this project, which is used more times and has a variety of prefabricated unit structures, GETO and its partners jointly developed an automated and intelligent PPVC PRECAST HOUSING MOLDS, and made a detailed turnover plan and scheme of the formwork for the customer. Finally, client only used 35 sets of automatic PPVC PRECAST HOUSING MOLDS, 17 sets of non-automatic PPVC PRECAST HOUSING MOLDS and a small group of construction teams to complete the main structure construction of this gorgeous property!
② PPVC construction technology reduce the labor demand and labor cost of the construction site to the greatest extent, the high construction efficiency and convenient concrete pouring way obtain the customer’s praise!
San Ying Rapid Transit Station is a new rapid transit station planned and constructed by the Taiwan Government of China. This project is a special structure of the subway station, with a total of 8 floors and a large number of changes in each floor. Our company provides our customers with the aluminium formwork design scheme that maximizes the re-utilization of the old formwork and reduces the material cost of purchasing aluminium formwork for our customer.
Project highlights:
① Re-utilize the aluminium formwork of standard floor maximally to the rest of the changing floors;
② GETO’s design team spent 5 months in numbering the aluminium formworks one by one to solve the problem that the construction workers of the client had difficulty in finding the turnover of the old formworks during the construction process.
For the project with special structure and many changing floors, our company finally provided the perfect design solution, which was highly recognized by the customer!
Egypt’s El Alamein Ultra-High Complex project D01M is an important strategic urban core building in the Egyptian government’s Vision 2030 plan and another typical example of China-Egypt cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Project highlights:
① The project is a special shape structure, and there are arc-shaped floating plates with odd and even changes outside and the area is reduced layer by layer.
② The top panel of the project is prestressed panel, and the prestressed panel exists in a conflict between the prestressed system and the formwork system of GETO. At the same time, the customer requires to use their own ringlock scaffolding system in combination with the aluminium formwork of GETO. In response to the project situation, GETO provided a design scheme with a combination of aluminium formwork and timber formwork. The scheme was also highly praised by the customer!
Urban Village, a super high-rise residential project with more than 50 floors, is a new landmark of this country’s capital, and a large community where local new culture is most popular.
Project highlights:
① Spent 1 year in structural construction drawings docking communication, assist customers to solve the defects of the preliminary project construction drawings;
② GETO provides a design scheme which let two standard floors to share a set of aluminium formwork, re-utilize the changing floor formwork to the standard floor formwork, maximize the usage of formwork, to help customers save material costs.
③ This project has a duplex building structure, and the hollow floor in the structure is a big difficulty. GETO tailor-made a set of aluminium formwork support reinforcement scheme for the hollow floor for the customer.
④ The project finally completed the re-utilization of more than 10 floors of changing floors , achieve the maximum value of the usage of the aluminium formwork.
Occupy an area of 65 acres, D ‘Vine, the Malaysia’s 52-storey super high-rise apartment, is an affordable serviced apartment in a township mixed development in Kuala Lumpur.
Project highlights:
① The structure of the podium and the tower of the project is very different, and the storey height is not the same. Through the optimization of the building structure, GETO improves the standardization rate of the formwork, so that the standard and non-standard floors in the same building can use the same set of formwork system.
② In the turnover design of podium formwork, GETO provides aluminium-timber combination and formwork reinforcement scheme to help customers save materials and construction costs, and solve the pain point of high cost of non-standard formwork.
③ Aluminium formwork is used for the construction of a full set of structural buildings in the podium building, including the horizontal structure and column cap parts which are not commonly used aluminium formwork, and better pouring and forming effect was achieved.
The public housing is located at Lot B10, Zone A of Macao New City, covering an area of 6,831 square meters. The main uses include residential, public parking, commercial and public facilities. It is a social welfare housing.
Project highlights:
① Introduce advanced design ideas from other regions in the international market, actively communicate and cooperate with customers to overcome regional differences in technical specifications and construction habits;
② GETO uses the self-developed “BIM Industrial Design Software — Xiaozhi” to help customers with accurate formwork modulation. The technical advantages of automatic formwork modulation, correction and design, enable the aluminium formwork system of GETO to achieve ultra-high design quality without physical trial assembly.
The large residential project is a public tender of the Kaohsiung City government, a major focus of the housing and urban renewal Center in Taiwan, China.
Project highlights:
① The standardization rate of the formwork of this project reaches 85%, which greatly improves the construction efficiency and facilitates the mutual re-utilization between different block’s formwork.
② For the special points in the project, GETO helps customers to carry out special optimization and treatment: The installation of edge protective net enhances the security of formwork installation; The window sills are sloped to improve the water resistance of the house as a whole.
Conceived by PUB as a cost-effective and sustainable solution to meet Singapore’s long-term needs for sewerage collection, treatment, recycling and disposal, the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) is a signature public project of the Singapore Government. We were very fortunate to be involved in the DTSS2-T11 project as a supplier of shaft formwork and construction platforms.
Project highlights:
① The construction site of the project is under the shaft platform in the tunnel, and the construction space is too small to use large machinery. In order to solve the difficulty, the R&D team of GETO adopts the suspension construction scheme, installs the attached self-climbing system on the shaft platform, and realizes automatic climbing of mechanized equipment, reduces labor, improves construction efficiency, and solves the problem of narrow construction space.
② This project involves a large shaped circular steel formwork with an inner diameter of 13.5m, which is different from the general steel formwork reinforcement. GETO use the reinforced channel steel to make the steel formwork more firm and the forming effect better. At the same time, the large-shaped circular steel formwork manufacturing is also a major innovation breakthrough of GETO’s production technology.
③ The shaft construction platform is equipped with sensors and stoppers, and intelligent electronic control is adopted to ensure the stability of the frame structure and safe lifting.
④ Customized scheme design according to customer requirements: redesigned the special-shaped walkway plate, adjusted the height of the construction platform, and optimized the shaft platform model according to the force calculation.
This project is a serviced residential apartment project with a building area of 3,367 square meters, which is a typical hotel apartment in the area.
This is the first time for the client to use GETO’s aluminium formwork products for a hotel project. GETO is able to provide customized products and service solutions for different international markets.
Project highlights:
① The project is a complex re-utilization project, re-utilize another different structural type hotel’s formwork in this project. GETO carefully provides economic and technical solutions for aluminium formwork system, which not only saves cost for customers, but also meets the requirements of customers’ on-site construction.
② In combination with local design specifications and local construction habits, GETO has optimized the formwork structure for many times to meet customer needs.
IBN Highlands City is a multi-billion dollar landmark commercial project in Malaysia. It is located in the Genting Plateau, the largest summer resort in Asia. The project combines serviced apartments, a business district and a five-star hotel.
Project highlights:
① The project has great floor height, many changing floors with special and complex structures; including round columns, arc-shaped beams, decks with special angles, etc, special-shaped formwork accounted for more than 50%.
② GETO uses self-developed intelligent formwork modulation software to design and optimize the structure of the project’s formwork. Before the formwork delivery to the construction site, it has carried out several intelligent assembly tests in factory, which helps the project finally realize zero defects!
Published: Jan 30, 2023
Last published: Jan 17, 2023
