COMMERCIAL BUILDING NO. 1, DAMMAM: STRUCTURAL REMEDIAL WORKS

The building comprises a 12 storey construction above ground and a basement that covers the entire area of the building. The ground, mezzanine, service and restaurant floors slabs are solid slab constructions with different thickness depending on the framing plan of each floor. In the typical floors starting from the 1st floor level to the roof, waffle type slab construction was employed, comprising ribs at 1.8 m centers in each direction with a relatively thing topping slab of 125mm. The total slab thickness was 800mm.