The individual wall surfaces were staggered from floor to floor and include large openings in addition.
In some cases, the shear walls could not be founded down to the foundation, but instead had to be supported using columns in the underground garage ceiling and introduced into the subsoil via bedded foundations.
This calculation method has led to much more cost-efficient results than would have been possible using a conventional calculation.
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