Due to the automotive vehicles increase, available parking lots become a new type of
limited resources in central cities in China, especially in those old districts without
visionary urban planning. Additional mechanical parking is an efficient solution to
provide sufficient parking lots under the situation where the space is constrained. More
severely, if there is no space on the ground, parking garage under an existing building
may be the only way to fix the problem. One project is introduced in this paper about
the renovation work of an old sales center in central Shijiazhuang urban area, China.
The sales center was in a logistic park and no parking was designed for this building.
The biggest challenge was to keep the upper level of building operating during the
construction. The renovation work started from the beginning of 2016 and finished in
May 2016, including the parking equipment installation and interior decoration. The
new parking garage is currently in operation and satisfies the requirements by the
client. The design work, details, construction consideration, load test and monitor
results of this renovation work will be presented in this paper.
Subjects: building renovation, screw anchor pile, micro-pile, underground
parking, micropile
Author: GUANGLEI LIU, PETER CHOI, QI WANG, JIA MA
Publisher: ISM, DFI, ADSC