Method of erecting a building structure in a water basin
AssigneeTechnion Research & Development Foundation Limited
InventorsVyacheslav Grinberg, Ilya Davidovich, Samuil Yakhins, Konstantin Kovler
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of creating a building structure to be installed on a basin floor wherein the base for erecting the structure would be an element of such a block and this block would be placed on the basin floor in such a way, and would be fixed in position relative to it in such a manner, that this base could be used as a foundation for stationary, large-sized heavy structures and also to ensure the possibility of using the block elements as members of the structure being erected and thus to increase the economic efficiency of the method.
Claims9
A method of erecting a building structure on a water basin, the water basin having a water level and a basin floor and located in a preset site having a site depth, the method comprising:
- floating at least one prefabricated pan-shaped block to the preset site, wherein said block has a height higher than the site depth, and wherein said block comprises a base member having a perimeter, a bottom, and walls that embrace said perimeter in a manner to resist the introduction of air or water to form a working area;
- submerging said block onto the basin floor by filling at least a part of said working area with water;
- fixing said block on the basin floor such that at least part of said block is located above the water level;
- removing water from parts of the working area;
- erecting a building structure on said base member wherein the building structure is erected on the parts of the working area where the water was removed;
- fixing said block against a displacement relative to the basin floor and against further submergence into the ground;
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- securing upright process pipes having a height exceeding said site depth and spaced over said working area through holes of said base member, by installing piles into the ground through said pipes and dismantling said pipes.
A method of erecting a building structure on a water basin, the water basin having a water level and a basin floor and located in a preset site having a site depth, the method comprising:
- floating at least one prefabricated pan-shaped block to the preset site, wherein said block has a height higher than the site depth, and wherein said block comprises a base member having a perimeter, a bottom, and walls that embrace said perimeter in a manner to resist the introduction of air or water to form a working area;
- submerging said block onto the basin floor by filling at least a part of said working area with water;
- fixing said block on the basin floor such that at least part of said block is located above the water level;
- removing water from parts of the working area;
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- erecting a building structure on said base member wherein the building structure is erected on the parts of the working area where the water was removed;
- wherein said floating at least one prefabricated block comprises connecting walls of said at least one block that is pan-shaped to walls of an adjacent pan-shaped block and wherein said at least one block comprises projections with seals located on external sides of said walls shaped to be combined with adjacent projections of an adjacent block and forming closed cavities, the method further comprising submerging and fixing said at least one pan-shaped block and at least one adjacent block onto said basin floor such that closed cavities are formed below water level;
- and pumping water from said cavities at a speed that exceeds the speed of water entering through said seals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.