RDK cooling tower, Karlsruhe
Building project: Cooling tower at Rheinhafen steam power plant (RDK)Client: EnBW Kraftwerk AG, Karlsruhe
Period: 2008 – 2010
Services:
- Structural examination and construction supervision for the new construction of a cooling tower at Rheinhafen steam power plant (RDK) 8
- Shell structure, as a truncated cone in the region of the 28 circular vents (approx. 15m high) and as a hyperbolic paraboloid in the area above this
- Flat, closed ring foundation
- The height of the cooling tower is approx. 80 m.
- Shell structure out of reinforced concrete
- In consideration of the dynamic effects of wind
- Ground improvement using vibrated stone column technique
- Structure-specific guidelines for cooling towers (VGB-R 610 U; VGB-R 602 U)