NATIONAL FLOUR MILLS SILOS

Project Name: National Flour Mills      

Type of Project: Slipform, Silos

Director in Charge: Anthony Farrell

Design Engineer: Anthony Farrell

Resident Engineer: Harricharan Harnarine-Maharaj

Design Team: C.E.P Limited (Structural and Civil Engineers)

Year of Commencement: 1988

Date of Completion: 1992

Description:

The building itself consists of reinforced concrete walls which were cast using the slipform method.  Intermediate reinforced concrete slabs are supported on precast beams placed during the slipform process and shelf angles fastened to walls with Hilti expansion anchors.  The building is supported on a foundation slab 3’-9” thick, itself supported on precast prestressed concrete driven piles.

C.E.P. engineered and supervised the construction of the reinforced concrete 25000 tonne storage silos which consist of cylindrical concrete silos 40 m. high, using the slipform method of construction. This was the first time the slipform method was employed by a local engineering firm in Trinidad