Renovating the Eastern Dock sheds

The plot of land covered by the project is between Joan de Borbó Comte de Barcelona Boulevard and the Eastern Dock in Barcelona. The area taken up by the buildings affected by the works comes to 2.606,30 m².
The project includes the works and facilities needed to refurbish and upgrade the building complex to meet the PAB’s new use and functionality goals. This means it will involve demolition work, refurbishment work, structural reinforcements, new foundations, new roofs on existing buildings and new construction of buildings using a laminated timber portal frame.
The renovations will encompass all the actions required on the envelope of the existing buildings (façades and roofs), recovering their original architectural style. The new constructions planned between the existing buildings will have a cohesive role in the building complex, designed as halls separated from the existing façades and at the same time connected for their lobby purpose. This will involve any essential demolition of buildings, systems or components to free up the spaces between buildings to put up new constructions with the role of lobbies (halls) or freeing up space on the outside.
The current state of the foundations needs to be checked, but a micropile foundation with pile caps is planned for the buildings to be renovated while the new single-story buildings will have foundations with strip footings and grade beams. Reinforcement or new foundations will be necessary for the north and south buildings, the former coal storage facility and the passenger terminal using a system of micropiles and pile caps.
The South Building will have a new gable roof consisting of new wooden trusses and steel braces of the size required to bear the new upgraded roof. The existing pitched roofs on the Passenger Terminal, Coal Storage and North Building will be replaced by new insulated roofs.

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