HOLEDECK, 2015 CTBUH Innovation Award

HOLEDECK receives this CTBUH (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) award for innovation becoming the first Spanish technology to receive this importatn award. Is has been obtained thanks to its revolutionary system of lighter slabs (concrete) which allows to place facilities and also achives the construction of more plants buildings in the same height.

It is a patented construction system that allows to creat reinforced concrete and steel structures which work as the traditional waffle slab. It can be pierced by electrical and plumbing systems and the ‘overall weight of the structure is reduced without compromising its ability to achieve long spans.’
The slabs are constructed in situ with a system of reusable and recyclable high-resistance polypropylene molds that make possible the construction of large slab surfaces with reduced amounts of components. The system is available for different typologies and thicknesses and allows to place the facilities across the slab.

'HOLEDECK is a simple and elegant way of creating coffer slabs, with holes in the webs. It overcomes one of the main obstacles to the use of coffer slabs, which is that all services usually have to run below the slab rather than in it. It appears to be particularly suitable for light weight long-span floors or where architects and engineers are interested in making better use of the thermal mass of a concrete coffer slab. The jury felt that some of the best innovations come from simple ideas and HOLEDECK could re-energize this form of construction'. David Scott, CTBUH Technical Awards Jury Chair.

CTBUH, founded in 1969 by Lynn S. Beedle and based in the IIT of Chicago, is the international association for reference in the creation, design, construction and operation of tall buildings.