Construction of the shopping center Ada Mall in Belgrade

Abstract

Ada Shopping Mall is located at the corner of Radnička and Paštrovićeva Street in Belgrade, closed to Lake Ada Ciganlija. The building has a gross area of about 100.000m². It consisted of reinforced concrete structure with three underground and four above-ground levels and a steel roof structure. The foundation pit protection was made by bored and bored secant piles in combination with two different Top-Down methods during construction. The excavation depth was up to 25 m. As the building was built in rock mass, during excavation blasting was applied. During construction a monitoring system was implemented. This paper provides an overview of the construction process of shopping mall.