Cairo International Fair
ACE was entrusted with the structural design of this prestigious project, located in Nasr City - Cairo, Egypt, which consists of three rectangular exhibition halls and three square halls, all connected by covered terraces. The following gives some of the specific details of the structures in the fairgrounds:
- The rectangular halls are 30 m wide, with lengths of 75 m, 110 m and 135 m, covered with a suspended roof slab of 6 cm thickness, stiffened with prestressed ribs spaced at 1m.
- Centre to centre movable shutters have been used for casting the roof.
- The square halls are 50 x 50 m. Each consists of 4 separate units of 25 x 25 m covered with inverted prestressed hyperboloid roofs resting on a single column at the middle.