- To distribute the loads from the Tower shaft and legs into the
piles below, a 3m thick, 40 m diameter concrete raft spans the top
of the piles. To produce this 3300m3 of concrete were
placed in only 17 hours - one concrete truck every 1.5 minutes.
- Concrete can get as hot as 75°C when it is curing, so to prevent
cracking caused by temperature differences, 200m3 of
ice was added to the concrete as it was mixed.
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